My eldest DD is 13 and although she is quite musical and artistic, does nothing with either of them. No sport either. Organised activities for kids - no way. She is struggling even to get organised for DofE although her friends are doing it. Suggestions of things she might like to do get a yawn and "CBA". It's not the worst thing to be but I do sometimes have a nightmare vision of her as an adult as a useless slacker staring at a TV screen in a crappy bedsit. She was always pretty much like that, even at primary school, but teenagedom has intensified it. Her younger sister and brother, in contrast, very naturally sign up for various after-school things - dance, chess, drama, football - which they enjoy in a low-key way, without being pushed by us at all. Quite a lot of our friends seem to have this pattern of a bone-idle eldest and more active younger ones. Do others have this; and does it change - will she always be this idle?
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19/12/2013 20:31
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