If you’ve had a chance to check out my fairly frequent blogs on the Childing site, you’ll see that I’m taking on sometimes the role of the Socratic gadfly, constructively and gently challenging the commonsense ‘wisdom’ of today.
I do so in my blog, Bored to Tears, posted this morning on the recommendations by many among today’s crop of psychologists that children have ample time to be bored.
As I assert, they clearly are talking about and referring to children (and parents/caregivers) from relatively privileged backgrounds — and as is too typical today, they make little distinction between constructive and stultifying forms of boredom.
At the very least, no attempt is made to address how such creative-inducing types of boredom can be had by all, especially the children (and their parents, frankly) who need it the most.