A lot of times you might have heard your kid coming and telling you that they are getting bored. At that moment, nothing of what you suggest gets them excited or interested. Yet you give them some or the other activity to do, so they won’t stay bored. Maybe you give them a very stupid tedious but necessary task such as, “Fine, pick up all your toys from the ground and keep them in the box.” Or perhaps, you give them some extra screen time or make them do their homework in all unwillingness. If you are very nice to your kid, you may even start playing and talking with them.

But do you know what? You do not need to take responsibility for their boredom. Boredom is a very good and healthy thing. This is the moment that gives birth to creativity, ideas, and observations. Boredom also gives way to leisure time when the kid may just start following an ant, or look out the window and watch birds and trees, or just lie on their back on the ground with their legs up against the wall counting some patterns on window grills or tiles. 

Boredom leads to the state of inactivity when the usual activities that one does quite often stops interesting the person. At that moment, the person wants some challenge, or a spark, or curiosity. It leads to the awakening of their inner drive, a bud to explore something new, discover something unique, and understand something amazing. Boredom lets one go inside their head to explore what more they can find interesting in the world.

This issue of getting bored never dies in one’s life. Even you might have had lots of moments of boredom? What do you do then? Probably fill up your time with something or the other. How you manage or deal with your boredom remains a useful trick for the rest of your life. And boredom brings such an immense amount of profits that you should rather fall in love with the feeling of getting bored. 

It awakens the sense of being in the child. While getting to know about the world around them, they also start discovering their sense of self. This awakening comes with stillness and boredom brings stillness, when you are doing just nothing. We usually don’t take boredom in a positive light and that is because we have been conditioned not to take stillness and nothingness for their true value. We prefer ‘running after’ things in life, we prefer to stay filled up all the time, we run short of time all the time that having a leisure time becomes a part of vacations only. In such a case, even when we go on a vacation, we stay on move and stay punctual to a perfect itinerary that we don’t care to take out time to just sit, relax, and breathe in. 

Don’t let your kid follow your lead here. Let them seep into the silence and stillness at their own pace. Let them discover the time and its conditioning for themselves. Let them relax. Boredom brings the kind of stillness and relaxation in the body which is also responsible for boosting one’s memory. Memory and a relaxed mind and body go hand in hand. 

Therefore, next time when your child comes to you complaining about boredom, tell them it is a very fine feeling and everyone should feel bored from time to time. Don’t start suggesting them different activities to fill up their time and to shrink this feeling. This is one thing which will help the kids immensely for the rest of their life in different ways.