Why boring holiday - it is a gift for a child

Child psychologists believe that the parents are not necessarily coming up for your child's entertainment for the summer holidays. Boredom makes children self-reliant.

Child psychologists believe that it is not necessary to paint the summer child on the clock, so he was always busy with something. Moreover, such an approach to vacation planning prevents the child to make discoveries and to do what really interests him.

Parent mission is to help the child to take his place in society. And "being an adult" means to be able to occupy themselves and to fill their free time that brings joy and happiness. If the parents of the child to decide what to do every minute of his spare time, he will never learn to do that.

Lin Fry (Lyn Fry), child psychologist, an expert in the field of education

Fry is not the only one who points to the advantages of boring vacation. It supports Dr. Teresa Belton (Teresa Belton), a visiting researcher at University of East Anglia, which examines the relationship between boredom and imagination. IN

Experts for decades to discuss the importance of doing nothing. In 1993, the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips (Adam Phillips) wrote that ability can become bored achievement in helping the development of the child. Boredom gives a chance to contemplate the life, not to ride through it at a gallop, he writes in his book, On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored.

Parents manic trying something to take the child, instead of giving him time to find what he is interested in. Boredom - an integral part of the ability to thoughtfully to spend their time.

Adam Phillips, analyst

Lin Frye offers holidays at the beginning of the parents with children who are four years old, to sit down together and draw up a list of activities for the child that he can devote his spare time. It should include the basic activity: games, reading books, cycling. And something more sophisticated: cooking dinner, staging, engaging photos.

And when the child comes to complain about boredom, send it to view the list. So you Put on the child a decision what exactly he would do. Probably some time the child will be depressed and bored, but it is important to understand that it is not wasted time.

There is no problem in the fact that a little bored. Children need to learn to be bored, because it motivates them to achieve goals. Boredom makes children self-reliant.

Lin Frye, a child psychologist

Such a theory put forward in 1930 by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Russell), who devoted a chapter of the book "Conquest of happiness"The value of boredom. He wrote that the imagination and the ability to cope with boredom must be learned by each child.

It is best to develop the child if it is a young plant, to leave in the same soil, and do not disturb. A lot of travel and a variety of experiences - it's not too good for the child, as he grows up incapable of long-term fruitful monotony.

Bertrand Russell, the philosopher