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Shirlee Smith | Kids Aren’t Bored

Published on Sunday, June 12, 2016 | 5:56 pm
 

Who says the little ones get bored?. Bored? Kids bored?

Maybe they’re looking to be entertained. Maybe, just maybe, they’ve picked up this phrase from listening into someone’s conversation and thought it sounded like something they should pursue.

When a 7-year-old claims boredom and the parents feel obligated to fill the void, might I suggest that something is terribly wrong with this relationship.

Boredom, according to Google is “feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in current activity.”

Children of any age being bored, according to my mother, meant it was time for adults to intervene and erase the stigma.

Erasing the stigma for my mother was not quite what the parents I recently encountered had in mind. These folk who felt their 7-year-old had already outgrown the several electronic gadgets they had already provided were on the prowl for where to next spend their dollars.

Neither my mother nor the rest of the wise women from back in the day didn’t raise bored kids.

Kids who might have thought this way were cured quite quickly by being given a new list of chores.

Back then, kids, even at the age of 7, didn’t get weary because they were unoccupied. If they lacked interest in their current activity, they didn’t let the adults know, as they simply learned to find something else to do for themselves.

 

Shirlee Smith is a former Pasadena Star-News Opinion Columnist. She is a Los Angeles Press Club first place awardee and author of They’re Your Kids, Not Your Friends and the Spanish edition, “Son Tus Hijos, No Tus Amigos.” Smith can be reached by email at talkaboutparenting@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

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