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re: Ideas for my son to start inviting his friends to our house
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:24 pm to StringedInstruments
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:24 pm to StringedInstruments
Got enough room to get a couple sets of Bag boards?? Do the cookout like others said, and get a tourney going.
Obviously this a first cheap go at seeing if something will work, and then you'll have one of the other parents who will get them, if they see the kids are enjoying your house some. Some people are just arsehats like that.
Shop for them with your son so they are "cool" and tell him you want to do this with him to see him more. May be to young to "get it" but he'll remember it later in life.
Your daughter is the kicker so definitely find a way to ship her off, but also remember that in a decade or so those boys won't be ignoring your home cause she's "bugging them".
Obviously this a first cheap go at seeing if something will work, and then you'll have one of the other parents who will get them, if they see the kids are enjoying your house some. Some people are just arsehats like that.
Shop for them with your son so they are "cool" and tell him you want to do this with him to see him more. May be to young to "get it" but he'll remember it later in life.
Your daughter is the kicker so definitely find a way to ship her off, but also remember that in a decade or so those boys won't be ignoring your home cause she's "bugging them".
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Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:29 pm to StringedInstruments
Come on you're never too young for hookers and blow! Just think about the legend your son will be!!!
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:31 pm to crazyatthecamp
Only give them guest Wifi that blocks stuff inappropriate for kids that age. Their parents have probably already approved them downloading VPNs, but at least you tried.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:33 pm to StringedInstruments
Buy a couple of tents, let them camp out in the back yard. Maybe set up a fire pit. Get them some flash lights, walkie talkies. Laser tag guns.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:39 pm to StringedInstruments
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Anyone else go through this as a parent?
No, but I went through it as a kid.
I ALWAYS went down the street to my friends' houses.
We hardly ever played at my house.
Nothing wrong with my house, but nothing about it made sense for congregating.
First of all, all four of the kids I played with lived within a few houses of each other down on the other end of the street.
Two of them had better sports yards.
We didn't have a good front yard for football or wiffleball. The backyard was laid out o.k. for wiffleball, but we had a creek bordering the backyard and you can easily see the problem with that. One errant foul ball and your ball just floated away.
We did have the best basketball driveway/goal, but we didn't often use it...I guess because everyone was so in the habit of everything always taking place down at the other end of the street.
We had an Atari, but two of the kids down the street had an Intellivision, which was better than Atari.
Two of the kids were brothers, their Dad didn't live at home and was rarely around, and their mother (I found out later) was an alcoholic who was not really functional. I didn't understand all that dysfunction at 10 years old, but I knew that if I was at their house their mom would leave us entirely alone, order us pizza for dinner, and we got to do pretty much whatever we wanted, and that was enough of a draw for me. Also they had movie channels and we did not at my house, and in 1980 or so that was important. Especially because no one over there would tell us we couldn't watch whatever was on them. :)
My advice is to be glad that he has friends and is actively engaged with them. Many, many kids these days do not interact that way any more. It's strange and a bit disturbing.
Know their parents...make sure he's not spending every weekend with a barely functional alcoholic like I was, but otherwise, playing with his friends like it's his job is what he's supposed to be doing at this stage of life.
Be grateful for the peace and quiet and don't take it personally.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:43 pm to StringedInstruments
Pre-rolls and beer. Works every time. Maybe hire a couple of teachers to come dance sexy for some moonlight pay.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:44 pm to StringedInstruments
My house has turned into the hangout out place for our kids and their friends. I extended my patio and built an outdoor fireplace and mounted a TV on it. The kids will have their friends over and have a movie night with their friends and roast marshmallows.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:47 pm to StringedInstruments
Subtle my son has friends brag.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:48 pm to StringedInstruments
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They’re a little young for hookers and blow.
Give it time, give it time...
Posted on 4/7/24 at 8:55 pm to StringedInstruments
Enjoy those little fricktards not being at your house.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 9:08 pm to Flashback
Build a BB gun range..get some targets that fall over when shot by putting soft wood with carpet on hinges…have them compete side by side to see who can knock down all the shapes first. BB guns are endless fun and teach gun safety so you get to be there with them.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 9:11 pm to OWLFAN86
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make pizzas maybe invest in good outdoor pizza oven make pizza make it fun
This is a great idea!
Posted on 4/7/24 at 9:17 pm to wackatimesthree
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their mom would leave us entirely alone,
Kids will gravitate to adults that ignore them, with few exceptions. They want to get away with stuff. It doesn't matter if you have a PS5, a play room, a theatre. If you make kids ask you to get food out of the pantry, most of them hate you because they had to ask (sub 11 year olds.)
They're probably not coming to your house because you have rules of some sort. Who woulda thunk it.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 9:19 pm to StringedInstruments
My oldest daughter always had friends over. Middle son never does and not many friends. Youngest son has friends but they never come over. Honestly they just enjoy playing together outside and neither seem to care about going with friends except to ballgames.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 9:22 pm to StringedInstruments
Put him to work and tell him it’s time to become a man. His friends fancy playrooms will become the least of his concerns.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 9:58 pm to StringedInstruments
I am in a similar situation house wise. My house is just too small and I would be lying to myself if I wanted it to be the hangout. I have a nice playset with swings in the backyard but they rarely do anything with it other than swing. We have had his close friends over but I don’t push it.
Thankfully we are moving to a house twice the size with a playroom and will install a pool. Then he has the option To invite random friends over.
For your situation I would focus more on going out and doing things/taking them on adventures rather than having kids over.
Don’t be embarrassed or upset that he refuses to have friends over. It’s ok to have a house that can’t provide the same fun as the other houses in the neighborhood. If you accept that, then it will be fine with both of you.
Thankfully we are moving to a house twice the size with a playroom and will install a pool. Then he has the option To invite random friends over.
For your situation I would focus more on going out and doing things/taking them on adventures rather than having kids over.
Don’t be embarrassed or upset that he refuses to have friends over. It’s ok to have a house that can’t provide the same fun as the other houses in the neighborhood. If you accept that, then it will be fine with both of you.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 10:07 pm to StringedInstruments
Buy a drone
Posted on 4/7/24 at 10:16 pm to dkreller
Our kids do airsoft battles in the woods, go to the creek to catch critters, play video games, build legos, watch movies, play air hockey, etc. we have a nice fire pit and sometimes project movies on the house. The kids camp in the yard. They built a fort. They shoot hoop.
The biggest challenge we run into is that kids are so scheduled and occupied, it can be tough to make schedules work.
The biggest challenge we run into is that kids are so scheduled and occupied, it can be tough to make schedules work.
Posted on 4/7/24 at 10:16 pm to LemmyLives
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They're probably not coming to your house because you have rules of some sort. Who woulda thunk it.
This reminds me of my MIL and BIL. He was 13 and had a sleepover. His mom invited me and the wife to come over. We get there and it was college football primetime so I sat down and watched that with another kid. My MIL was so anxious about everything that she was constantly calling for him if he went to another room. Then they wanted to go outside in the woods and she was freaking out telling them no. She was on top of everything watching everyone like a hawk. I noticed how much it must suck to be those kids.
You have to let kids be kids from time to time, and accept a reasonable amount of mischief.
This post was edited on 4/7/24 at 10:17 pm
Posted on 4/7/24 at 10:19 pm to LemmyLives
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Kids will gravitate to adults that ignore them, with few exceptions. They want to get away with stuff. It doesn't matter if you have a PS5, a play room, a theatre. If you make kids ask you to get food out of the pantry, most of them hate you because they had to ask
Ding ding ding. Took 4 pages to get the actual answer.
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