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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of the complaining is normal kid behavior, and some of it is also quarantine behavior - I know my own 11 year old is sometimes punchy out of nowhere these days in a way we didn't see when she was going to school out of the house and participating in favorite activities.

As for the walking piece, OP - I have one kid who loves to walk and can hike for miles, and then there's the 11 year old, who will hike only at Girl Scout camp. She can swim for hours, but walking is usually not her favorite.

You asked in one of your posts here how you can help your own kids develop better attitudes/sense about money and grateful behavior. Talk about how much things cost and give your kids a chance to have a budget.

When my daughter was younger and crazy about American Girl dolls she got gift cards to that store as a gift for many holidays - and boy if she didn't learn how to budget out that money down to the penny to be sure she was really getting exactly what she wanted. I also remember taking her to to the grocery store in that phase and the look on her face when she saw the total - and then she said to me, "that's as much as an American Girl doll!" Realizing a week's worth of groceries and a doll she wanted were the same price made more sense to her than me saying, "that's expensive and I don't think you need another one." [/quote]

Op here. Thanks for the ideas. I’ll apply them to my own kids as they get older.

With the not walking thing-does your DD’s not wanting to walk extend to things as simple as, walking from the parking lot to an activity and back? Like, ok they aren’t hikers, I get it. I’ve got to meet them where they are on that. But even when we went to the hotel, which did involve a 10-15 minute walk from parking lot to the pool, they were whining and I felt a little confused/exasperated-like Ok does this mean you don’t want to go to the pool? Like can you see that there is no parking right next to the pool? What do you want me to do about this? Should we just go home? I was carrying a ton of stuff and trying to corral them and diagnose the problem and figure out what they wanted and felt very frustrated in the moment but we got through it. [/quote]

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