[bell-cot]

Coaching your kids' sports teams is a pretty mainstream social activity for a father of young kids. By age 7, my dad was involving me at least a bit in home repair & home improvement projects.

BTW - are you regularly reading to your kids? That also checks a lot of your boxes.

[Kon-Peki]

You don't have to even coach. Just go to the practices/games.

My daughter plays hockey. The boring parents sit in the workspace area, on their computers, doing work. The rest hang out in the bar area that looks out over the ice chatting, playing (non-gambling) card games, etc. Hardly anyone has anything "interesting" going on, or if they did they aren't talking about it. Who cares, it's fine.

[gardenhedge]

It sounds like you care though - you've called other parents (the ones not in your group) boring.

[hn_burner_2038]

I have done coaching and my son loved it so I will try to keep that up. I wasn't really able to connect with any of the other parents though, I don't think any of them would recognize me if they ran into me at the grocery store.

I do read a lot to the kids, that has been great.