Teens in lockdown.

New to Tattle Life? Click "Order Thread by Most Liked Posts" button below to get an idea of what the site is about:
Order Thread by Most Liked Posts
E

Enpen45

Just wondering how other people’s teens have been during lockdown? I have a 14 year who has seen her friends a couple of times. I keep telling her to meet up with a friend for a walk but she can’t be bothered 🙄 I’m worried she’s going to become ill because she spends so much time in her room! She won’t come out for a walk anymore because “it’s boring”
She will come out if it involves going into town shopping though!
We have movie nights and we watch Netflix. We’ve run out of things to do! And now we have another 6 weeks of!
We haven’t even got a holiday to look forward to anymore 😩

anyone else’s kids turning into a vampire?!
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2
Kim Mild

Kim Mild

Yes. I think my teen is a recluse. They only come out if there's food.
 
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: 3
H

Happyvalley

Yes my son doesn’t want to go out for walks or anything. We do force him but he moans non stop. Everything is boring and rubbish and he wants to be on the PS4 constantly or on the phone to his mates. Lockdown was his idea of heaven 🙄
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2
I

idk2

Enpen45 said:
Just wondering how other people’s teens have been during lockdown? I have a 14 year who has seen her friends a couple of times. I keep telling her to meet up with a friend for a walk but she can’t be bothered 🙄 I’m worried she’s going to become ill because she spends so much time in her room! She won’t come out for a walk anymore because “it’s boring”
She will come out if it involves going into town shopping though!
We have movie nights and we watch Netflix. We’ve run out of things to do! And now we have another 6 weeks of!
We haven’t even got a holiday to look forward to anymore 😩

anyone else’s kids turning into a vampire?!
Click to expand...
Completely normal!! I'm the oldest of 4 and we all went through that phase of never leaving our bedrooms. My sisters had a period of time during lockdown were they were completely nocturnal, awake at 9pm and asleep by 12pm the next day. We only had a small window of time to see them 🤣 Used to drive my dad up the wall. I think you just need to take them as they are, keep offering activities but if they say no, leave it at that as I remember how annoyed I would get at the constant badgering to do something other than sit on my laptop.

They'll come around in their own time or maybe plan trips within your area? We have planned trips around what the kids like - days out to Go Ape, Go-Karting, planning for a small trip to Lake District, shopping etc. Or maybe family game nights with a twist? Add some competition in to it, an incentive for them to play and be involved not just sat their sulking! Money usually does the trick with us - for example, whoever wins in monopoly get a fiver or whoever guesses the killer in cluedo chooses the weekly takeaway etc. We've broken all these activities up during August so its one 'paid' outing every week. I find they're more social the evening or the day after an outing too. Plus they'll have their own social life in the midst of this too so hopefully that'll be at least 2/3 trips out the house! Also, I've found not checking up on them helps them emerge from their lair as they'll wonder why you're not checking up 😶.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1
You must log in or register to reply here.