Agreed. It changes but hobbies still happen occasionally. 7 or 8 is probably a good threshold. My 8 year old can be left alone for a little while and not noti

Agreed. It changes but hobbies still happen occasionally. 7 or 8 is probably a good threshold. My 8 year old can be left alone for a little while and not notice you missing. I found if the hobby needs you to commit a fairly large block of time to get going it is probably not going to work. I’m introducing things to him, but he’s work adverse. Any time he realizes it needs any sort of practice or effort it is a hard no. Work in progress. I’ve always seemed to need less sleep than most, so I just used nighttime. However, there are quite a few activities that are frowned upon or impossible with sleeping kids in the house, like guitar or drums. I probably wouldn’t kayak in the dark either. I’m not very coordinated and they’d never find my body.