Reply to What do childless couples in their 50's do?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "What do childless couples in their 50's do?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I need some ideas about hobbies. Since I work full time, I'm not too concerned about the week, but my big concern is what do on weekends other than simply going out to eat and seeing a movie. I'm so used to weekends being centered around the kid's activities and preparing for the upcoming week. [/quote]

What do you care about? What interests you? Volunteer!

If you like art, volunteer at a gallery. Interested in the outdoors? The county and city governments and local chapters of environmental groups have lots of clean-up days and other volunteering to do. If you were really involved at your DC's activities, consider volunteering for those as an adult without a kid--it frees you do do things that parents with kids there may not have time to do (example: my DD has been in Girl Scouts for ages and I'm a leader; when she goes to college next year I hope to get some extra training so I can be on call to run things like challenge courses for troops, etc.). And my DH and I both love theater so we might start volunteering at a local theater as ushers etc. DH already is involved in an academic extracurricular our DD gave up several years ago so he and I both will stay involved with that organization and the kids who participate.

I feel what you're feeling, OP-I've been very involved with my DD's activities and have done a lot of volunteering at them and have been thinking I'll be bereft once she says goodbye to those activities. But I also can get more involved with other things with newly-freed-up Saturdays and weeknights. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics