These days, kids are used to being entertained every waking moment with the help of a range of modern technology, from in-car DVD players and iPads to video games.
Boredom is nothing new but with today’s increasingly digital and fast-paced world, young people lack the capacity to cope with being bored.
As a parent, you can often feel like the family’s chief activities officer, responsible for the children’s entertainment and distraction all day long. We’ve been conditioned to believe our kids shouldn’t feel the pangs of boredom and that depriving a child of in-car DVD entertainment – on even the shortest of road trips – can be a sign of neglect!
But, amid all this entertainment, are we doing our kids a disservice?
I have spoken with more than 80,000 young people in the past decade who are growing up in a media-saturated and multi-channel world and I believe we are.… Read the rest