Give your Kids the Gift of Boredom
Boredom is actually natural, healthy and necessary.
When you pull the plug on the computer, TV, and video games, you're almost certainly going to hear complaints of boredom from the kids, just as Bruce Barber of famarama.com humorously describes for us in this 1-minute radio spot on Boredom (The Family Minute, MP3 format).
Boredom helps develop other skills in your children. They learn how to rely on themselves to make fun, use their imagination, and develop longer attention spans which are a necessary compenent to problem solving in the real world. Boredom helps kids develop motivation and concentration skills, so as a parent, don't try to entertain them, and don't think that it's your job to fill their spare moments with activities.
Let them stare at the ceiling for 30 minutes. There is far more brain activity going on while laying on the floor staring at a ceiling, than staring at some entertainment on the screen.
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Throw your computer away before you are the owner of your computer, destroy the internet before you are swallowed in the roots of no return, wake up, blink, if your are not already blind, the end of technology is here, the plot is thickning, the typing robots are unlimited, theives, spies, we are all being watched, go talk to a human, before you forget how, go talk to a neighbor, instead of someone on the other side of the world, smile, the t1chimp.exe virus has swept the nation, forget y2k, now its, too late, avoid everything at all cost, or
... or just use the compter in moderation and have some "downtime".
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