Hobbies, Leisure and Lifestyles

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Hobbies according to age

Small children´s hobbies - like playing with dolls, cars, playing games like chase, hide and seek or board games – e.g. ludo, chess,
cards, darts
Teenagers hobbies
Teenagers have their special leisure interests . These include playing team sports, dancing at the disco, going to parties or joining some clubs.

Usually they spend their leisure time actively in groups, in a good company – socialising.
Some of them like staying at home watching DVDs, listening to music or browsing the Internet or chatting.
If compare with older generation teenagers are becoming more lazier than their parents used to. They spend more time sitting in front of TV, computer – a generation of coach potatoes (obesity)

Some children and young people join different clubs where they practise different sports, the most popular are football, tennis, dance or ride a horse.
Why do young people take up some hobby?
Sometimes, it is not their choice but the choice of their parents, who want them to have interesting hobbies.
Some parents force their children to play an instrument or do some sport, because they think they will prevent them from taking drugs or drinking alcohol.
Other parents failed to become musicians or sportsmen themselves, so they want their children to achieve these aims.

It depends on each individual what kind of hobby to choose.
Some of them take up an outdoor activity - such as fishing, hiking, flying remote controlled model airplanes or kites in the park with children, water skiing, camping or cycling.
Others take up an indoor activity – reading etc.
Men like – repairing and maintaining their households or cars, working in the garden
Women prefer handycrafts - knitting, sewing, embroidering

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