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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another weekend with 12yr DS home, no friends to hang w. No kids in our neighborhood and classmates spread across city. DS has friends at school but it's not transferring to weekends. Most his friends playing online games which we keep to minimum. Tried team soccer but at this age kids too serious for him. Whatever happened to boys riding bikes around the neighborhood or building a dam in Rock Creek? Why are all our boys either sucked in video games or scheduled activities? My 10yr DD has so many opportunities to hang w friends to play dolls, put on a play, bake, dance... What's happened to our boys?[/quote]

I don't think it's the difference between boys and girls but the ages.  Is your 10 year old in elementary while your 12 year old is in middle school?  Most families have made weekends about kids' activities or family time.  If they haven't, middle school kids are spread out enough that parents would need to cart them all over, which is part of why online gaming with friends is so popular.  Middle school is an appropriate time for kids to get more serious about sports, but there are also other activities that he could do on the weekends, things which might be more interesting to him.  Or you could decide to do family activities on the weekends.  Or he can learn to do things by himself.  It's part of getting to the age when an adult doesn't need to be watching every couple minutes, or possibly even every hour or so.[/quote]

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