Bored Children

[halfthebattle118]

Bored Children

If I have to hear my kids say, “I’m bored” one more time, I think I will put a gun in my mouth. When I was a kid, I could go outside and live in my imagination for hours on end. I would have adventures by my self that ranged from missions to Mars, building cities for chipmunks out of sticks and pine needles, and climbing trees to the top of the world. Children nowadays are bombarded with media overload. Television has almost totally replaced imagination, and Cartoon Network has taken portions of our children away from us. Childhood on almost every level, has changed since when I was a kid. The lack of parent involvement, discipline, and family values are corroding the American family. We are so caught up in our own narcissistic, self-absorbed lives, that we are ignoring the fact that our children are being raised by animated crap designed to eliminated imagination. Constant advertisement marketing to the child population has impressed on them the fact that they “need” the Xbox 360. They “need” a PSP. They “need” all these expensive electronic gadgets to play in a more realistic environment which eliminates the imaginary vision that they once had to utilize. They say that after millions of years of evolution, we no longer need our sense of smell as we once did to hunt for food, etc. I believe we are in the midst of another evolution which is making our imaginations obsolete. When fantasy in movies and special effects make things look and feel absolutely “real”, we seem to no longer need that vision we once needed to see things though our mind’s eye.

[Darksheare]

An idea to combat boredom.

[frogjerk]

Why isn't this in "Breaking News"?

[Izzy Dunne]

Thank you for signing up on the "Why I Don't Like my Kids" network today.

[Izzy Dunne]

Maybe they could learn how to use paragraphs.

[Toby06]

Oh God, what is this crap? Here, get them this:

[areafiftyone]

Welcome to Free Republic.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

All things in moderation.

[skr]

The usual parental response is "Then clean your room, the garage, the car, the attic, the yard, etc. They usually learn not to say they're bored ever again, unless they're really dense.

[Oberon]

I've told my children "Saying that you're bored tells me that you have nothing to do." As something can always be found for them to do, they no longer complain to me of being bored.

[Toby06]

The lack of parent involvement, discipline, and family values are corroding the American family.

A good piece of self-criticism!

[Izzy Dunne]

Cartoon Network has taken portions of our children away from us.

Whose fault is that?

The TV hasn't "taken them away" from you - you have given them to it.

[cripplecreek]

My parents offered to find something for me to do. That usually cured my boredom in a big hurry.

[areafiftyone]

If I said I was bored to my mom - she would say "If you are bored I have plenty for you to do". And that would usually be tons of chores.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

If I have to hear my kids say, “I’m bored” one more time, I think I will put a gun in my mouth

Instead, you came to share this with us?

[Overtaxed]

"Find something to do or I'll find something for you."

That usually worked for me.

[Izzy Dunne]

Tell them to swallow 8 MENTOS mints whole, then chug a diet Coke.

[Tax-chick]

Cartoon Network has taken portions of our children away from us

Which portions? Whole limbs, or just the occasional minor extremity.

I don't suppose you've a spare set of upper incisors left?

[Rummyfan]

I always just tell them to pick up a book - any book.

[Tax-chick]

ARRRRGH! My husband and sons did that in the dining room. I'm still (vivid language deleted) with the whole group of them.