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[quote=Anonymous]I have a 10yo dd and I also had my 13yo niece living without me for the whole summer. You sound like you were trying, but perhaps that you didn’t actually consider their interests or preferences in planning your itinerary. In addition to doing a lot of “hanging out” aka letting them watch tv/read/look at things on their phone/iPod/playing silly games like Heads Up we planned a few activities like going to our college town (we walked around for a little bit, hit the bookstore for sweatshirts and ate pizza & ice cream), watched movies that my younger kids can’t watch, did yoga together, etc. We did go to some more “educational” outings as well, but we planned and researched them together and the older kids were happy to have a role in planning.

Tweens love Starbucks. Tweens from limited means probably love it even more because they rarely get it as a treat. Tweens are also obsessed with phones as “status symbols” and seeing an unused iPhone sitting “available” in their mind, may make them list after it even though they know they aren’t going to get it. [/quote]

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