Let your kids be bored
This advice might seem to you a bit strange, but it’s actually great advice on mindfulness. Just as adults need to feel sometimes certain feelings we might be tempted to avoid, so do kids need to experience boredom. It’s a natural state that can occur from time to time, and it’s important to let them live it.
Although kids hate the feeling of being bored, if we let them live it, they learn how to overcome it. Surpassing boredom makes them more creative, more open to the outside world and develops their social skills.
If they always have a phone in their hand to drive away boredom, they’ll never learn how to overcome it by themselves.
