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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only boring people are bored. [/quote]

Naah.  That's crap.  It would be true if applied to a situation where a person said they were bored but they were allowed to entertain themselves.  For instance, my kid is never bored as long as she has a pencil and paper and is allowed to write or draw. Or books.  She's good with that.  But if she's asked to sit there and find letters from a bin and put them on the spot where that letter is on her paper?   Or count to 100 again?  Yeah, that's really freaking boring.  She's nowhere close to a boring person, but that shizz is boring once you already know it.
I'm not ever bored when left to my own devices.  But I sure was bored today when I had to edit someone else's really boring brief.[/quote]

It those situations she can always find a word for each letter. Choose a theme! Animal names? Count by 2s! Make a song out of it.

I'm not being contrary, PP. And, I'm not the PP above. Just sharing some of the tactics I've used to get through homework assignments. I was G&T tracked at a young age and learned to create fun for myself. I'd list a whole bunch of three digit numbers and add them up, while the other kids finished an assignment that I'd already completed. In high school, I remember using the end pages of the blue book to write out sonnets I'd memorized because we all had to stay in the testing room until time was up. You find a way, PP. I was taught that it was impolite to complain and unfair to those who needed that exercise or time, so I had to get creative.
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