Boredom
Boredom
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Boredom
Boredom is a defining characteristic of modern society — it represents a hunger for authentic experience. (Charles Eisenstein) Help your children to see boredom as a healthy reaction, one which teaches them to reach within and find solutions. It is not your priority to alleviate a child's boredom –– your priority is to provide a safe home environment in which a child explores his or her imagination and unlocks ways to personally resolve boredom. If you constantly remove that chance, it can be harder for such a child to self-soothe and find internal outlets to relieve boredom, possibly leaving the door open to risky behaviors. Give yourself a break and allow time for boredom too. (wikiHow, accessed 26 September 2013) Play comes natural to children. Sometimes, if children have been watching a lot of television or have known mostly structured play, they will imitate TV and other’s directions in their play. As they have more time for themselves, they will learn to play in an original way. When children complain of being bored, this state is the very cauldron of creativity. Don’t rescue them from their boredom. Allow them this discontent. Boredom makes creativity inevitable. (Peggy O’Mara, posted 8 May, accessed 29 May 2020) The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Dorothy Parker) Resources
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