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Unfortunately, this sounds like a situation where you are trying to undo a behavioral pattern that you helped to enable in the first place. Hindsight would say that you should've restricted their computer/TV/playstation time all along so that taking it away wouldn't be such a big deal. But moving forward, I would say that you have a few options:
1-Participate in outdoor stuff with them. If they are used to defaulting to indoor activities when they are bored, they probably don't know how to have fun outdoors. They probably won't know how to have fun right away (since there are not joysticks outside). Help them learn how to have fun.
2-Make "indoor fun" not be an option. If it comes right down to it, you may have to say "If you're inside, you're staring at a wall, because you can't watch TV, play videogames, or be on the computer when the sun is out."
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