School's out, and the kids are bored: That's not necessarily a bad thing, say experts
It's summertime and the kids are home from school when one day they walk into the kitchen and say, "I'm bored!"
Jun 18, 2024
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It's summertime and the kids are home from school when one day they walk into the kitchen and say, "I'm bored!"
Jun 18, 2024
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A new study carried out at Aston University has shown that children as young as 4 years old eat 79% more calories when they are bored, compared to when they are in a neutral mood.
Oct 24, 2023
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If you're a parent feeling a modicum of dread about the upcoming school holidays, you're not alone. Many parents will be working from home over the school holidays and wondering, "how am I going to juggle online meetings ...
Sep 16, 2021
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Smartphone gaming can be harmful to players who game to escape their negative mood and feelings of boredom, a new study has found.
Jul 21, 2021
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A team of researchers at Radboud University's, Behavioral Science Institute in The Netherlands, has found that workers using their smartphone to take short breaks do not find reductions in boredom or fatigue. In their paper ...
People who are more prone to boredom and who are socially conservative are more likely to break public-health rules, according to new psychology research.
Jun 10, 2021
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Many of us have probably felt bored at some point in the past year. Restrictions on social gatherings, travel and plenty of other activities may have been necessary to control the pandemic, but have left lots of us with little ...
Feb 25, 2021
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We begin 2021 still in the midst of a pandemic: still social distancing, still self-isolating, still wearing masks, still feeling as if life is on pause. These restrictions, as necessary as they are, mean that most of us ...
Feb 8, 2021
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Boredom comes and goes for us all—especially as we have isolated ourselves from one another for weeks now. But for those facing homelessness, profound boredom has been a way of life that can lead to poor mental health, ...
May 5, 2020
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Boredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is without any activity or is not interested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768. The French term for boredom, ennui, is sometimes used in English as well.
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