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My children's favorite pastimes: reading, building stuff with legos, drawing and painting, roughhousing, listening to audiobooks, climbing on a gym rack thingy that we got gifted from a neighbor.

Also: building things out of pillows, blankets, cooking pots and utensils, etc.

Videogames have become a bit of an issue with my oldest one (8). But he seems to spend a lot less time on them than most other boys that age. But he's not happy about it.

What's "roughhousing", Google gives me answer it should be "fighting"?

Wrestling, play fighting, that kind of thing. Chasing each other around with sticks until someone gets a scraped knee

Image search does a better job explaining it.

My kid: Parents kid 1+

I should put in a base case and one child test. Eh, I'll do it later.

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