I’ve told this before. We had our nephew’s tween aged boys a few summer back. What total wusses. I had planned a hundred outdoorsy activities for them - geocaching, camping, s’mores, bbq, swimming in the river, fishing, shooting, yard games, flint napping, RC cars, hiking, etc. We bought new tires for the bikes but they didn’t know how to ride and refused to learn. They wouldn’t even go out to the attached garage to see the new kittens because the garage door was opened to the great outside. Wouldn’t go pick a tomato for dinner from the garden. Wouldn’t help me with an errand that involved walking down the street to an elderly relative. Nearly in tears going geocaching because they might get stickers. Wouldn’t even help Mr. b grilling supper. After a few days of their whining, we packed them off to their aunt’s. Of course, we’re now the mean relatives. Oh, well.
That’s really sad...I would have sent them home or shipped them out as well. I have family members all wrapped up in technology as well as their parents. There’s little you can do or say to change that. I just leave when they can’t get their noses of the screens.
But for you to have prepared so much fun things to do and they had no interest just shows that even when these kids are offered they simply don’t want to....
I for one am done trying ....you can’t make people do what they don’t want to ...