kids will choose many different kinds of activities at any given time.a lot of kids really don’t like games, some do, some don’t.
i’m not trying to be pedantic, but anytime someone implies a human, particularly a kid will be at all predictable shows an incredible lack of understanding of people. the vast array of moods, time of day, quality of sleep the night before, are they hungry, mood of the parents when they drove them to school, how did their school/work day go, how was their social day, and on and on and on.
again, apologies, i’m not trying to be pedantic but i think in this particular topic it reeeeaalllly matters.
My broad sweeping generalization was primarily meant as a counterpoint to this from parent comment: "The pandemic showed us exactly what children would prefer to do, when they don't have a physical teacher standing over them, which is bugger all."
My point is more that kids, when left to their own devices (with basic needs met), will find ways to occupy themselves that they find interesting that are not outcome oriented (I call this playing).
And I personally have never met a kid that didn't like playing in some form or another, though the form of playing is highly, highly individualized.
i’m not trying to be pedantic, but anytime someone implies a human, particularly a kid will be at all predictable shows an incredible lack of understanding of people. the vast array of moods, time of day, quality of sleep the night before, are they hungry, mood of the parents when they drove them to school, how did their school/work day go, how was their social day, and on and on and on.
again, apologies, i’m not trying to be pedantic but i think in this particular topic it reeeeaalllly matters.