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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and our older DSs love watching football. They don't watch too much, but at least one game a weekend.

We have a younger daughter who doesn't seem to share that love (I don't either). I would love if DH would include her in this activity. He tries, but sort of half-heartedly, probably because our sons already know the rules and DD doesn't yet. She's 4.

Our default the past few weeks has been for her to watch something upstairs while I read or putter around.

But it feels like the guys are doing a bonding activity, while we are just biding time until they're done.

What are some hobbies or things you do with your younger kids inside and in bad weather? Yeah, she should play on her own, but since the others are watching tv, she wants to as well. I need more structured options.

And, anyone else with this dynamic have any general thoughts? I don't love sports, but I thought my daughter would, since the rest of my family does. I don't want it to be a boy-girl thing. [/quote]

Learn the rules and make it a family thing. Sit there and do a puzzle if you have to. Otherwise, the mom/dad divide added to the societal norm = boy-girl thing.[/quote]

I do know the rules, and I'm totally willing to sit there and do something else and act excited when I have to. But it's not enough to keep her interest, so she wants to watch something else. And it seems if we both aren't that into it, we should at least do something else productive? [/quote]

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