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Benefits of Boredom
February 26, 2014
We overestimate children academically and underestimate them intellectually.
-Lilian Katz
-Lilian Katz
"Hail wasted moments of doing nothing — imagination's playground," asserts Peter Bregman in Psychology Today (May 2013). He talks about when you are bored: "The mind in this state has no particular aim. It's not efficient or directed. It revisits experiences, scans for opportunities, plays with problems — and that's when creativity comes alive. These days, we rarely reach the point of boredom, thanks to gadgets and anytime, anywhere entertainment. Occupying our brains is too easy — and that's killing our creativity. "When was the last time you rode an elevator and didn't pull out your phone? Every free moment has become an opportunity to get something done, or at least to be entertained. But doing nothing, being bored, is a precious thing. My best ideas come when I'm running without my iPod, simply sitting, or waiting for someone, or lying in bed before I go to sleep. These 'wasted' moments are the ones in which we most often unconsciously connect the dots."
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DHHS Child Care Licenisng
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
The ecosystem as the article stated went to its former habitat when the wolves were reintroduced in the environment. Sometimes decisions that are made at the moment seem to be the right thing to do but as noted in the article the choice to remove wolves was not the right thing to do. Which brings me to think with the rise of autism & allergies & asthama in children my thoughts are the foods children and adults eat today may be the cause. Mothers are encouraged to drink milk durning pregancy. The hormones that cows are given are not natural to the grazing cows naturally do to feed theselves. I believe there is a correlation between the food we eat and the dieseases that were not prevelant are so because of the hormones and other chemicals animals are fed plus insecitides used on fruits and vegetables.
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Design4Kids
United States
Thanks a lot for sharing this! The additional articles on the link were very good. A lot of what Peter Gray is exploring and writing about has significant implications for early childhood educators and the need for them to push back against some of the thoughtless, creativity killing and child opposing "educational" stuff going on.
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