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What does your child do when he is not on the screen? I'm kind of struggling with this with my child (also Finland) (similar age).


It varies, to be honest.

When he's left to his own devices he reads a lot of Aku Ankka, plays with lego, pokemon cards, and toy cars.

He's quite interested in designing simple board-games, and role-playing character sheets. I think he gets that from his mother, and also from Minecraft. He'll show me a sheet of paper with a bunch of weapons (bows, swords, guns, etc) with "points" associated with them, and then tell me stories.

He goes to play with kids in the garden, the park, or at their houses often, and every weekend I take him swimming, then to sauna. Or sometimes just sauna.

We're doing a bit more "adult" stuff these days, now he's a bit older and has an attention span. For example in the past few months I've taken him to a 90 minute-long circus show, Linanmäki, his first metal gig (hevisaurus), and to the cinema to watch the Mario film. I expect it is only a matter of time until I take him to watch a hockey match, but I don't think he'll be so interested so I've held off for the moment.

I guess other recurring things include going to the allotment (palsta) to weed, harvest berries, and random walks in the forest. He's been really interested in that this year, especially.


I have an 8 year old and this sounds lovely.


Our kids are ages 5-8, and we limit them to 1 hour per day of screen. When not on a screen, our kids play with toys, draw pictures, draw/write stories, read books, make stuff out of garbage (cardboard, cans, bottles, etc), make mud pies in the backyard, and so on.




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