So I'm helping a family friend out by watching her 7yr old son, which I did all the time when he was a baby/toddler, and I loved doing it.

But now I'm not sure what all I should do with him? Like i know I need to get him off to school and back home, help him with his homework, but that still leaves us an hour by ourselves and I don't have much experience in watching boys?

Is it rude to just sit him in front of the tv with a snack for an hour?

Maybe if he told you something he wanted to do else maybe but, I have a seven year old brother who would love to just watch TV and eat junk

Good that's what I'm going to do than.

I just feel so guilty that I won't actually be doing anything with him, like my nieces I can always think of something to do. Boys are just difficult.

Hi Lady ;3

Hmm, I mostly ask the kids, what they would like to do.
Try to give him some options, like games, books... If you can, have a look at his room, most of the time you can get hints what the kids love to do xD
Just don't start with the option 'TV' right away - every kid will jump right to it without thinking of anything else it maybe would like to do too...

I'm surpriced when I noticed, how boys too seem to love making bracelets, as in Friendship bracelet - )
http://www.the-red-kitchen.com/2012/01/lots-of-knots-friendship-bracelet.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZ58HliYLs
Most boys up to the age of 13/14 at the summercamp, where I use to work in the summer, seem to love making friendship bravelets... so that can be an option too ;3

Hope that helped you out a bit...
Later
Juri~

My best advice is to let him know you genuinely care about what he has to say. Which is a good idea anyway, heh. Little kids always have adults treating them like their thoughts and interests aren't worth their time, so they really get excited when someone takes time to find out what they like. Especially if they're an only child, it gets really lonely having everyone be ~*mature adults*~ and not really caring about your passions.

I mean you COULD make him sit in front of the tv, or you could be the cool babysitter. Find out stuff he likes, does he have a favorite show? Does he like to draw/color? Play outside? Board games? Video games? Books? Etc etc. Then you'll know what you can do with him!

If you baby sit a kid often use fake money, after a couple times they should have some money. Then use this money to 'buy' some items. Ranging from some colored pencils that can cost you 50 cents to a dollar, a small candy, etc. Use this as incentive to trying to get him to be good, and entertain him.

My brother is seven and all he r ally does when we don't make him do his homework is watch YouTube...