Let your children get bored, apparently it’s good for them.

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” – Carl Sagan.

Educational expert Dr. Belton told the BBC that cultural expectations that children should be constantly active could hamper the development of their imagination.The senior researcher at the University of East Anglia’s School of Education and Lifelong Learning interviewed a number of authors, artists and scientists in her exploration of the effects of boredom. And the result sided with the notion that boredom benefited them.

Dr Belton concluded: “Children need to have stand-and-stare time, time imagining and pursuing their own thinking processes or assimilating their experiences through play or just observing the world around them.”

Read more on the interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-21895704