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thanks guys
I think Ive done all except mini golf and kaleidoscope
right now we taking a lot of hikes where he brings all his animal toys and we create different ecosystems as go along [guess who carries the big bagpack full of toys ?]
building a model airplane tommorrow
I enrolled my kid in an online creative drawing and acrylic painting class in https://georgia.edu.ph/ (since im still not comfortable with my kid going out bec of the corona virus). Maybe you can also try that for a bonding activity. I also listened during the class and sometimes draw and paint with my daughter. sort of our bonding activity.
You may also do some fun, unique art activities. There's lots of activities that you can see on youtube. you can be creative with your son with even stuff available at home.
I love the camping, fishing, archery ideas. Do you have access to a canoe or other small boat? That could be fun (life jackets, of course). Lots of boys who aren’t into organized sports still really like outdoor activities.
My son loved making really complicated hot wheels tracks and then we would race the cars. Lego sets, train or airplane museums, riding bikes, skateboarding?... he will have fun whatever you do if you are putting all your enthusiasm in it. Just going to a new playground can be fun at that age.
We have a 6yo boy (and 3yo boy as well fwiw) and below are a few things he loves to do (either by himself or with us)...
-Playing with Legos: can't get enough of them!
-Drawing pictures or doing arts/crafts
-Playing at a park or doing anything that involves physical activity that's a game (doesn't have to be a sport, could just be playing tag or tossing/kicking a ball)
-Watching (child appropriate) movies (including the Lego movies which he loves)
-Board games (as some have mentioned above)
-Swimming (either pool or beach)
-Reading books with an adult
-Exploring new places and doing new things (my wife and I aren't big on camping so we set up a small tent indoors this year and both our boys slept in the tent in their sleeping bags and then watched movies with us while in the tent, they thought that was so cool, it was "camping" to them lol)
Something we did with our granddaughter when she was 6ish...
first of all, I bought a bunch of googly eyes at Michaels. When the granddaughter came out to the country, my husband and I and granddaughter rode around on our Side by side, and would occasionally jump out and stick googly eyes to trees.
We all three thought it was the silliest thing ever and had a lot of fun.
My son hates sports but he LOVED taking tae kwon do. He did it for three years and got his black belt. We saw many kids that started when they were 6, 7, or 8 years old and were already blackbelts by the time my son started (my son was 11 when he started).
I think it's weird that you are his DAD and have no idea what to do with him. Unless you share custody and spend very little time with him, I can't imagine not having at least a few ideas of fun things to do around town or even literally in your own backyard.
I'm sorry if that is harsh, but I imagine that if a mother posted a similar thread, she would be raked over the coals.
.......I'm sorry if that is harsh, but I imagine that if a mother posted a similar thread, she would be raked over the coals.
I disagree with that. Mothers of six year old boys who have never raised a six year old boy before are often online asking for advice about activities and all sorts of other child rearing questions. New activities for kids is a favorite topic of conversation with mothers. The discovery of a new activity is shared with all the group and investigated and discussed.
Maybe a father who would only take his kid to do the things he did himself as a child and insisted the child did those activities whether or not the kid enjoyed it, that guy could expect to get raked over the coals. No one thinks it is incompetent parenting to inquire about new activities for a kid to try or to be asking about good ways to bond with a child.
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