[jyl]

More activities? Tell him he has to do a physical activity of some sort - sports, dance, exercise.

The summer is almost here, there should be various youth classes and clubs and other opportunities for him to try several different alternatives. Per my thread on "HS sport", a complicated team sport like basketball may be too hard to get into now, but there are plenty of others that you can join at any stage. There are the mainstream sports he can carry on to HS, but also less mainstream ones like archery, martial arts, fencing, shooting, skateboard, table tennis, etc.

Hobbies? Most kids will have at least an initial interest in model rocketry (Estes) or R/C cars.

In these times, most kids are going to spend more time on their phones and computers than may seem "normal" to us geezer types. My son is quite active and even so, he goes through phases of playing video games 2 hours/night (Xbox stuff). I get irritated and lecture him about the more useful things he could be doing. Then schoolwork, dance and theater rehearsals, and his other activities get busy and his gaming hours sort of naturally ebb away, without my intervention. I've decided not to complain as long as he has enough other things going on and they take precedence over Assassin's Creed when necesssary. I wish he chose reading or model-building to fill the idle time that he does have, but oh well.