Let Children Get Bored Again
Updated: Apr 27, 2019
By Pamela Paul - The New York Times
Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. “I’m bored.” It’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents with a cascade of dread, annoyance and guilt. If someone around here is bored, someone else must have failed to enlighten or enrich or divert. And how can anyone — child or adult — claim boredom when there’s so much that can and should be done? Immediately. READ THE ARTICLE HERE: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/opinion/sunday/children-bored.html
