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

Sorry, bolded part is correct.  Well, obviously not literally but the truth is really bright kids don't get bored typically.  I previously taught elementary school.  (Cue in someone to now comment thank goodness I don't teach anymore because her brilliant kid WAS bored.). Just as an example, one day after a science lesson on fruits (pumpkins), the kids (kindergarteners) were counting pumpkin seeds with a partner.  Each child had a large chunk of seeds/pulp from a freshly carved pumpkin and then he/she would take one seed out of the pulp at a time and put in into a container.  The first partner would say, "one" as she put her seed in the container and the second child would say, "two" as he out his seed in the container.  This continued until the team of two finished counting.  For a bright child, under your theory, he'd be bored out of his mind mindlessly counting seeds to 27 or 33, right?

When asking the kids later to share something's they learned that day,  one very bright boy later stood up to explain that he realized we could have cut the time in half had both kids in each group put a seeds in at the same time and we counted by twos.  He then said that we could have had 5 kids in a group or 10 kids in a group and counted by fives or 10s which would have taken even less time.  He then said that it is "kinda cool" to think that a pumpkin can naturally decay, the seeds naturally scatter and new pumpkins can grow, and from this he learned just about how many could grow.  All other kids who shared mentioned they learned how many seeds they had counted or that they had more or less seeds than this or that group.

Later his mom told me that now that he knows what "pulp" feels like, he asked her to find out now pulp is removed from OJ since he sees the cartons at the store that say pulp and no pulp on them.

This kid was never, ever bored.  Typically very bright children are able to entertain themselves because they interpret information in unique ways.  Yes, lots of kindergarteners can count by twos or 5s or 10s, but most wouldn't interpret the information as he did.[/quote]

Wrong.  I [b]was [/b]brilliant and bored.  No question.   [/quote]

Past tense.  What are you now?[/quote]

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