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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I think it's actually a bad thing to book up up every hour.  A 13 year old should be able to entertain himself at home during working hours for a month.  period.[/quote]

Yeah, but there's a difference between having some free time every day, and having 10 hours a day of solitary time... for 4 weeks.   At home, no friends, no transportation.   Period.[/quote]

There are magical inventions called telephones.  Also, legs.  And bicycles.  Unless the OP lives somewhere where it is impossible to bicycle to a park or a friend's house or on an errand, I still don't see this as a terrible prison sentence.   Give him some chores, some reading, and some unstructured time.  He'll figure it out.[/quote]

Friends are usually away at camp these days.  They aren't hanging around the house, and if they are there's no adult around so usually they aren't allowed to have another teen over.

Parks ... aren't really for 13 year olds.   What's he going to do?   Swing on the swing sets?   With no buddy around to hang with?

I don't know that you can just assume a kid who, as you recall from OP's post, doesn't think it's a good idea for him to spend a month home alone, will "figure it out".  A week, sure.  A whole month sounds like a lot of alone time to me.[/quote]

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