He’s 11 and is totally fine with just playing video games all day. My sister had enrolled him in Karate and it worked for a little while before it was a nightmare to get him to go. He’s been involved in sports, but he is such a klutz and clumsy.

It’s really hard, but she keeps trying to find something (or someone!) that will spark an intrest for him. He’s a science freak so he takes frequent trips to museums and things like that.

It’s to the point now that she doesn’t force him into anything, although he does have to spend at least an hour outside everyday (weather permitting of course) When he is outside he ends up talking with the kids in the neighborhood and ends up involved in games or whatever is going on at the moment.

Kids w/ ADHD are often times very intelligent – do you have a local university that might offer “kid-friendly-activities”? I lived near a college and the students had lots of stuff for the community to do -piano and other musical/drama kinds of “camp”, astronomy (planetarium), history (and dinosaurs!) — lots of things like that because the grad students had to put in so many hours doing that kind of stuff to get their grad degrees. You could also try the local library – lots of activities for kids.

Now, you may be thinking “I want to get my kid OUTSIDE – what’s with recommending all of the indoor stuff?!?” but they are good places to get your child interested/stimulated about something new – and doing it with other kids around will give him an opportunity to meet some new kids. Then you can set up skating parties (roller, ice or skateboard -depending on where you live), or take a trip to a petting zoo – if he likes it, maybe he could help out and feed the animals on a regular basis or maybe 4H would work for him? You could also try Cub-Scouts / Boy Scouts.

Maybe he needs to get used to being around adults before he can do well with kids his own age? Sometimes direction from adults is better taken from STRANGERS than from family – and they can help him learn more about social interaction/expectations. Is he old enough to start doing some basic yard work for neighbors and getting paid for it? I’d LOVE to have someone weed my front and side gardens and would be happy to pay well for it! Or – could he start walking some dogs for the elderly neighbors?

OK – enough, I just wanted to speak up because if you find a place/some things that stimulate him, he’ll naturally want to be with others who are the same – and it’s a lot easier to push a group of little boys out into the yard than it is to watch 1 little boy out in the yard all by himself.

Good Luck – I hope that you can find a solution and think it’s great that you care enough to jump in on this!

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