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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand the OP. What cannot a child be bored at school? If the school don't teach new things and repeat over and over stuff they already know, why cannot they be bored? Haven't we all been bored by lectures and meetings and stuff? Why cannot a kid be bored? [/quote]

Didn't you read OP's response?

Its because OP was a bright child and does not recall being bored in elementary school.
Therefore, a kid cannot be bored that young... at least not until high school physics.
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I am the first one to say I hate it when adults say that they are bored.  No adults should be bored, ever. Unless they are in prison with no reading materials. I don't think a child can be bored at home either, if we are talking about the typical DCUM homes with toys and books.

But a child can certainly be bored at school. Most people are the most engaged when the tasks are just at a little bit beyond their level. High school physics was obviously too hard for the op. But I can believe that some kids are way beyond the level that they were instructed at in elementary school. If they were allowed to read book they brought from home, that may be better. But otherwise, what do you think they should be doing when they are waiting for others to catch up? Doodling? Not everyone is a doodler.

I don't know how often this happens. To say categorically that this cannot happen, that is simply not logical. [/quote]

Adults get bored all of the time -- most adults don't get to do exactly what they want to do all of the time.  Standing in line at the store, driving in traffic, doing perhaps repetitive and tedious tasks at work.  Or doing repetitive and tedious tasks at home.  It's part of life.  I don't buy that most people are excited and engaged all of the time, and that it is only uninteresting stupid people who find some things just mind-numbing and tedious.

Sure, there are always ways to try to combat the boredom (podcasts or books on tape in the car for traffic), but if you're not in the mood for books on tape or not in the mood to be sitting for a half hour in traffic, sometimes nothing can really stop the boredom/tedium.  You get through it.  And it makes you appreciate even more the activities that you do find stimulating and enriching and fulfilling.

Kids need to learn to deal with boredom, to deal with the lulls that occur in daily life, to be patient waiting for others, because let's face it, a huge part of life is waiting.

I think acting out in kids, teens and even adults (and yeah, I know adults who act out, misbehave -- not to mention adults who develop addictions) is not because of boredom -- it's because they don't learn or aren't able to COPE with boredom.  And that will be a bigger problem in life than not being challenged 100 percent of the school day.[/quote]

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