Kids Saying They Are Bored

[@kittymarch8455]

My mother always used to say “ There are no boring times only boring people.”

[@allisonharranmua8193]

My mom did not entertain "I'm bored". If we said that we got chores. We learned not to be bored.

[@briahaye9340]

You are a breath of fresh air! Great advice! It also works with groundings when they get older. We would make a list depending on punishment of random deep cleaning things like baseboards. Then he would never know his grounding time. It was dependent on his attitude. When he calmed down and reflected on what he had done and we saw his attitude become positive for a couple days then we would tell him the rest of the time. We only grounded him 2 times and he also dumped the friend on his own that was getting him into trouble

[@LittleHandsBaking]

I simply say "Okay be bored" hahahahahahah

[@jennifer7648]

Oh my goodness!!!! This is the first video of yours that has come through my feed. Any that do and I am really interested in, I go to the channel and look through the other videos. All I can say is: Why have I ne seen you until now???!!!!! I am subscribing and binging your videos immediately!!!!!! I need some help!

[@michellebyrom6551]

I took the same approach. Meet their needs but don't spoil them. Boredom makes them develop their imagination more than playing with toys imo. Toys give them a base, a framework. Boredom forces them to be self started inventors and explorers. You're bored? There's plenty that needs doing - the washing up, that laundry.... all 3 were happily occupied in their own world by that point. Later on I insisted on them learning how to do everything but they appreciated from no age that it could be left to the adults.

[@lettus143]

I feel like things have gone so far in the wrong direction because of social media that people are really desperately looking for old school advice and tactics. I have 5 kids under 10, i also tell them often that it's not my job to entertain, and if they're bored there's always work to be done. Honestly sometimes they really just ask for the work and enjoy having something to focus on!

[@jennifer7648]

This sure make me feel way better about not responding when my 10 year old daughter says she is bored and gets super angry and cranky about it. I have tried to do what you do when she says that. I give her a chore but she just yells "no" and stomps away. Or she will negotiate for me to buy her something in the store of she does the chore. When she gets angry and stomps off I just let her go figure it out for herself how to not be bored😁

[@gmh56]

We knew better than to complain to mom that we're bored. She would give us a list of chores to do. When we were done we would skedaddle and stay outside!

[@bsaulo21]

lol love this

[@mollymaee]

I found you on tik tok… so happy to see you have a yt channel! Tik tok keeps showing me other content creators but yt lets me see your content on my subscriber page.

[@Poppy-yx8js]

Sometimes kids are left alone too much. It’s not healthy for kids to have several hours a day to schedule their own time when they are little.

[@mydeershikaxoxoga]

At the beginning of the video, she specified that this approach works as long as you're meeting their needs and managing their wants. You're talking about a different situation.