Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:52     Subject: Re:8th grade boys
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

How long ago was the crew thing? Very recent?


Yes. Stopped last year.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:50     Subject: 8th grade boys
Swimming, usually. If not swimming, eating and playing video games. Friends optional.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:48     Subject: Re:8th grade boys
Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

How long ago was the crew thing? Very recent?
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:39     Subject: Re:8th grade boys
On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:35     Subject: Re:8th grade boys
Mine 8th grader is in between. Tonight he is doing nothing ---playing video games and hanging out.

Tomorrow he has a friend coming over to hang out - probably also play video games. He is just beginning to think of the ideas of having something to do.

He also likes to sometimes have friends sleep over so they can play even more video games....
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:03     Subject: 8th grade boys
Soccer three or four nights a week.
Homework on the others.

Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:50     Subject: 8th grade boys
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Homework, practice, video games, walking the dog, dinner conversation.


Thank you. So he’s not hanging out with friends a lot on weekend evenings? Mine isn’t yet.


PP you responded to. Well, he’s extremely introverted.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:35     Subject: 8th grade boys
They are playing basketball in the driveway or roller hockey in the street, and then eating someone out of house and home, before watching movies or playing video games and then having a sleepover.

At least, that is what my son and his friends are doing.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:32     Subject: Re:8th grade boys
He couldn't wait to get home from sports practice to play some video game he preordered months ago. It came out today. He also tried to fake sick this morning. Um, no way.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:15     Subject: 8th grade boys
Sometimes plans like birthday parties or movies with friends but usually home playing fortnite with friends or at sports practice. There is a small group in the grade who go to coed parties, but not many.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:13     Subject: 8th grade boys
Anonymous wrote:
Homework, practice, video games, walking the dog, dinner conversation.


Thank you. So he’s not hanging out with friends a lot on weekend evenings? Mine isn’t yet.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:12     Subject: 8th grade boys
Anonymous wrote:None of your business.

Thanks for your input.

I’m trying to figure out what’s typical without asking my friends and my son’s friends’ parents. So maybe someone else will help me out.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 19:11     Subject: 8th grade boys

Homework, practice, video games, walking the dog, dinner conversation.

Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 18:45     Subject: 8th grade boys
None of your business.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 18:31     Subject: 8th grade boys
What are yours doing on weekend nights?