- The focus is more about competence then fun
- Ask them to help with one immediate step of a project to get started.
- The experience sharing does not always have to include joy or laughter, but it can engage a sense of quiet pride.
Here are 19 activities you can do right away with your teenager:
- Teach them how to drive! Start out by simulated breaking in the living room.
- Basic activities like laundry, can give a sense of independence.
- Exercising together, lifting weights, hiking (slow then fast)
- Taking out the trash, sorting recycling
- Gardening, shoveling, spreading mulch, raking weeding
- Nature walks, pointing out things of mutual interests
- Washing the car
- Bicycling
- Moving furniture together.
- Make snacks together
- Learning basic housekeeping, making the bed, cleaning windows
- Mapping out bus schedules together, then take the bus to your destination.
- Buy a fish, learn about basic care, clean the tank, and assemble the filter together.
- Organizing family pictures
- Drum together in the car with your favorite music
- Go through your closets and see if there are any clothes you can donate
- Jumping waves
- walking down a path at night with one flashlight
- Writing letters to relatives,think about what would be of interest to the person you are writing to
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