Reply to Friends coming over but bored

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Friends coming over but bored "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]OP, I have a super social daughter.  When she had friends over, it was because they were already friends so finding stuff to do wasn't much of a problem.  They already liked each other and just liked hanging out together.  So I didn't have to plan much stuff.

If your daughter is shy, things will be different.   She is inviting girls over that she isn't good friends with already.  And if she is introverted just hanging out is going to be very hard.

You have a lot of limitations on the two best things to do -- going to an activity somewhere else, and hanging and watching a movie or playing a game.  So you need to up your game in other areas.

You need to plan some activities and not expect that your daughter will automatically know how to be social.

- painting finger nails
- simple crafts from Michaels.  At that age my daughter and her friends loved taking some min-canvas panels and paint.  You need a good supply of arts and crafts to choose from.  Make people or animals out of posicel sticks, glue eyes and feathers on etc etc. 
-jewelry making, beading
- board games or card games can work -- my daughter and her friends play them all the time, but they like the ones with lots of pieces -- like Life where you have the car with the babies, etc.  At that age they loved to play Sleeping Queens.   You could maybe get a couple of girls interested in Poker if you had the chips to bet with.  I think girls like props.
-listening to music
- my daughter's friends were really into Playmobile-- one girl had a HUGE collection of sets up in her attic and they'd spend hours there -- again it helps to have a lot of props.
- bake cookies, ice cupcakes -- again it helps to have all the right tools for decorating etc.
- make videos of each other with a video camera or phone

[/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