What is\was your 7 year old interested in?

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Hi everyone,

I'm curious to know about other 7 year olds. My son is nearly 7 and he's currently passionate about train stations and trains, (he knows the entire Melbourne metopolitan train map from memory), as well as trams. He's also interested in firefighters, and he's currently showing an interest in continents, the map of Australia and all it's states and cities. He also likes doing electricity experiments with my partner. And he also loves board games, (as long as he wins), and computer adventure games where you have to solve puzzles. He can also get right into books, (like Captain Underpants).

But things change very quickly around here. I'm pretty sure the train interest will fade again soon, (this is a regular pattern), and he'll find something to else to be totally absorbed in. I'm hoping he'll go back to zoos and animals - that's one I like!

Cheers,
Temma

My 7 year old son is into aliens, mythical monsters, dragons and dinosaurs.

Sometimes he goes through Yugi-oh and Pokemon phases.

But he always goes back to dragons, dinosaurs and monsters. He has been interested in these things since he was 2.

My 9 year old son was absolutely obsessed with Yugi-oh when he was 7. He used to make his own Yugi-oh cards, drawing them on A4 paper. He would go through up to 40 pieces per paper per day making them.

Our neighbours would duel with his A4 home-made Yugi-oh cards.

Helen

I was passionate about books, drawing (I had this HUGE box of Crayola crayons that I absolutely loved), building things with Lego, and dinosaurs. I was interested in music and worked out a song or two on my brother's guitar, but I hadn't yet begun my formal musical training at that age.

I'm not a parent, but I thought I'd share anyway. When I was seven back in 1996, I loved 'Space Jam', '101 Dalmations', anything having to do with cats, Lisa Frank products, Littlest Pet Shop products, and, well, things a lot of seven-year-olds liked at the time. Ah, the days of being seven... Good times...

Same as Lightning, not parent but will share. I was really into rocks and space. I had a rock polisher ( tumbler, loved the sound of it too). I'd go to the beach to find rocks to polish and find out what they were ( mainly limestone or conglomerates). My mom would take me to a store near by that sold tons of different kinds of rocks. I still have an unopened geode. A lot of my collection went to my sister, she's into jewelry making, and uses the stones in that.

I was real big into space. Probably had something to do with me telling everyone i was an alien too. Still pretty interested in space, although its not all consuming as it was back then. I had a bunch of posters on the wall with planets and astronomy stuff on them. In fact i repainted my room a few years back and its all space themed ( painted the bed silver, looked awesome) Theres planets and stars and the moon ( which has sponged on glow in the dark craters)

Lego, from the games online ( Worldbuilder, Bionicle online games and stories, Junkbot , puzzles etc, at the Lego site), to the objects themselves, esp bionicle, and other technic stuff, also Playmobil.

Also drawing very complex plans and diagrams of all sorts of things, maps, worlds, mazes, processes, game steps, etc.

Reading Tintin, Schtroumph/Smurf, and Asterix comic books, amongst others. Telling himself stories from all of these sources, esp. Bionicle.

He used to be into dinosaurs, passionately, drawing pictures of them and reading books about them, but that was earlier. Robots and aliens/space travel too. But less engulfingly.

My son is 9yrs old:
Titanic - everything about it including the movie.
Always had an interest in lighting and electricity.
Legos, watches Science channel (anything about space),
Tom and Jerry (his FAVORITE cartoon) curently into cars -
the movie and any type of race car. Was playing alot of
xbox (cars) but not into it as much (thank you!!-it took up alot of his time) he is also currently fixing my garden lights. Some
bulbs have gone out and are dirty. He's changed the bulbs and
washed them up and fixed a couple of wires that were going
bad. To bad my garden doesn't look as good as the lights!

my 7 y/o son is into trains and building things with k'nex and legos and magnetix. He got interested in trains when he was a toddler (Thomas the Tank Engine) and I thought it would fade but he still likes Thomas and is now very interested in real trains. He loves reading books about all the rail lines in America and detailed information on all the different cars and engines. When we are driving he constantly is commenting on the different trains and cars that we pass--in extreme detail like most aspies and their area of interest . His room is covered in train posters and he has so many manuals on steam engines and hopper cars and on and on and on! He says he wants to be a train engineer when he grows up and that he won't be able to have a wife probably because train engineers aren't home that often. He is so cute!!

my sons were into Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, aliens & dinosaurs............my daughter was into animals-still is

My son tends to get obsessed with worlds he has invented for himself. While he was seven he created a series of stories (in his head, mostly) called Space Ranger. For the next two years, he dressed as Space Ranger characters for Halloween, to help his friends "learn" about them, and for his eighth birthday we created a whole Space Ranger party.

While he has now moved on, he still knows each of his character creations in detail.

My 8 year old over the last year has gone from Lego's to Magnetixs to Magnaformers to a obsession with "Dirty Jobs" on the Discovery Channel (I think she had a secret crush on Mike Rowe). Now all she wants to do is to be on the computer website called Webkinz.........

At seven it was spiderman, pc/video games and pokemon.

Now at 9, it's technology (his words) pokemon, command and conquer,video/pc games, the living dead and his made up fantasy world. Spiderman is no longer cool for a grade 3 to talk about!

We also get the intense not so long lasting interests ie bugs, spiders, rocks, etc

smelena~probably so, but the commute would be a killer !

My 7 year old is really into dinosaurs. He also likes animals of any kind and spends as much free time as he can reading about animals and dinosaurs, and on the computer he will google them.