{"id":1451,"date":"2014-07-08T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.positivelyparenting.com\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:07:39","slug":"your-children-need-to-be-bored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlparentcoach.com\/new\/parenting\/your-children-need-to-be-bored\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Children Need to be BORED!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With summer fast approaching, a chief complaint among many parents is worrying about boredom!<\/p>\n

\u201cMy children are always complaining about how bored they are!\u00a0 We have millions of toys and activities, but if our children have 15 minutes free minutes, they are lost.\u00a0 I am dreading summer!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As a parent coach with young kids myself, I know it can be tough to allow your children to be bored.\u00a0 And I also know that the answer is as simple and as it is difficult.<\/p>\n

You have to allow your child to be bored.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

But how?\u00a0 \u201cHow do I allow my child to be bored?\u201d you ask.\u00a0 Well, you just do.\u00a0 You have to not get sucked into the whining and complaining.\u00a0 You have to not get sucked into, \u201cAll of my toys are stupid\u201d or \u201cI have plaaaaayed that game a hundred times, mooooom.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

To begin, start small with allowing boredom!<\/p>\n

“You have time between 1-3 PM to find something to do.\u00a0 I can give your one or two ideas.\u00a0 Let me know.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Then you have to hold on for dear life.\u00a0 Your child is going to follow you around, whining, crying, and muttering about his or her extreme boredom.\u00a0 As the parent, you will have thoughts like, \u201cThis child has everything<\/strong>, how can he\u00a0possibly\u00a0<\/em>be bored?\u201d\u00a0 Or, \u201cI work and work and work and still, these children are sucking me dry.\u00a0 I NEED A BREAK.\u201d\u00a0 Or \u201cI\u00a0never bothered my parents like this when I was younger<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As these thoughts cycle in and out, you must simply breathe.\u00a0 Rest-assured that as you weather this storm, the child will eventually tire and find something to do.\u00a0 The more you have interfered in the past, the longer this process may take, but it is worth it.\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n

When children are bored, their creative juices start to flow again.\u00a0 The BBC recently published an article citing the importance of the boredom-creativity link.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe academic, who has previously studied the impact of television and videos on children’s writing, said: “When children have nothing to do now, they immediately switch on the TV, the computer, the phone or some kind of screen. The time they spend on these things has increased.<\/p>\n

“But children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them.”<\/p>\n

It is this sort of thing that stimulates the imagination, she said, while the screen “tends to short circuit that process and the development of creative capacity\u2019.\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-21895704<\/a><\/p>\n

The irony is that the more we\u00a0don\u2019t<\/strong>\u00a0allow our children to be bored, the more accustomed they become to being entertained.\u00a0 The more entertained the children are, the deeper the brain habits are ingrained.\u00a0 Their young brains are literally conditioned to constant entertainment, whether it is from a parent or caregiver or technology!<\/p>\n

Look at this summer as an opportunity to break your children from this cycle!\u00a0 Go on technology fasts and, while I love enrichment activities, think of holding a firm boundary on only one or two.<\/p>\n

Stay strong, don\u2019t give into the whining, and watch what happens.\u00a0 Creativity will bloom before you know it!<\/p>\n

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