![]() The experts aren’t entirely out of line in their hope that a child without something to do will find something he or she wants to do, and it will be fresh and new. Deliberately fostering an environment that produces boredom is cruel. ![]() If you leave a child bored long enough, they typically whine louder, get into mischief, or pick a fight! Boredom doesn’t ensure creativity, problem solving, or learning. If they are bored long enough, eventually they will become creative geniuses because they had nothing better to do.” ![]() “It’s okay for your children to be bored. Some parenting “experts” suggest leaving your child in a bored condition, as though once bored long enough, stores of creativity will rush forward. It is not an indictment on a child’s ability to self-soothe or auto-entertain. It wasn’t a philosophical musing in need of expansion.īoredom is a red flag! It’s a signal to you that something needs to change about the environment or your interactions with your kids. My declaration was a cry for help (ideas, materials, suggestions, participation). In that moment, I was genuinely bored, as a kid with free time. My dad, unhelpfully, used to reply to us that we had no idea how valuable our free time would appear to us as adults, and that we shouldn’t waste it since we’d never get it back.
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