Kids are more bored than ever, experts say — but some NYC parents couldn’t care less: ‘Go and figure it out’
NY Post
Moms are on board with boredom.
When Renée Gadar’s kids tell her they’re bored, she doesn’t hesitate to repeat the same advice her parents once gave her: You have lots of things to play with — go and figure it out.
“And you know what, they do,” Gadar, 40, a hairdresser living in Harlem with her 12-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter, told The Post.
“My son will come into the kitchen and talk to me for a couple of hours and then go and read a book. My daughter will play creatively for two hours or start a coloring project. It’s old school,” she said approvingly.
According to data collected by Monitoring the Future, a government-funded organization that studies trends in adolescence, kids are more bored than ever.
That’s completely fine, according to Stacey Rosenfeld, PhD, a Rockland County psychologist. The mom of 11-year-old twin boys believes strongly that the state of mind can offer distinct benefits.
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