The importance of being bored

I've just found this interesting article about children being bored and parents trying to avoid it ( or not?). Comparisons on how things were some decades ago and how parents react nowadays towards this fact are good food for thought.

Let me remark some of the sentences:

The importance of being bored

Parents should wave goodbye to boil-in-the-bag entertainment for their kids and realise boredom can be a force for good.

Things are very different for many of today's children. The notion of quality time implies doing something constructive or worthy rather than parents just letting their children "do their own thing".(...)

Too often have I heard a parent say "I hate the summer holidays". How depressing, to find the company of your children such a chore.(...)


Boredom opens channels. If you're truly, stultifyingly bored and, despite desperate complaints, no one sees fit to alleviate your boredom, then you have to rectify the matter yourself.(...)

Read the complete article on
http://gu.com/p/2tymq