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> or if we're waiting at the Doctors office or on a road trip I wonder if that robs them from the experience of ever being bored. And if that might influence t
by Double_a_92 8y ago
> or if we're waiting at the Doctors office or on a road trip
I wonder if that robs them from the experience of ever being bored. And if that might influence them.
- VLM 8y agoOlder, teen kids (not just my own) do seem to think they're entitled to continuous digital mental stimulation via passive consumption...
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoWe regularly make sure they get experience doing nothing too. My wife and I are big believers in the importance of doing nothing, for imagination/creativity and also just because it's an important skill to have in life, to be able to sit and wait. They're very imaginative, and we regularly find the eldest just sitting in a sunny spot in the room and "dreaming in the warm" as she calls it. The only problem we struggle with as far as technology is that a lot of her friends already have unlimited access to TV and talk about shows she's never heard of because we don't watch (or have) TV. We purely do Netflix/Stan and YouTube, so she gets a bit upset not knowing what they're going on about, but she's starting to understand that everyone has different things they do.