Kids Saying They Are Bored? That Is A Real Mind Blower For Me. What Do You Think

quite true. They can do whatever they want literally. jump around the house. they hardly have to worry about life and still they are bored

Amen to that. Alot of them act like wild animals, not children. They think they should have full attention all of the time and they will not let their parents get 5 seconds peace. they always have to be entertained by someone or something.

Same here. We found things to entertain ourselves. I remember sitting in the floor playing with jax. To me that was fun. At least I got a break from all the chores I had to do and be happy while I was doing them. I never backtalked my mom and dad either. I knew better. Kids these days don't care. they will tell you straight up what you can do and they have no remorse for it.

I am 36 now. My dad passed away when I was 13 and my mom remarried soon after. I still had chores to do and then some since I was growing older and my mom and step-dad worked. I still had homework to do and daily chores. I didn't get to go hardly anywhere but I still respected what my mom said. I made good grades in school and didn't get to study until about 10 or 11 at night after getting the chores done that I had to do daily. Keep in mind. I couldn't go places like most kids so I would just go lay down on my bed and draw. We had a swimming pool but we weren't allowed to get in it unless my mom and step-dad was outside to watch us and I was 16. Mom couldn't even swim but I could. We have a swimming pool here and I cannot force my now almost 16 year old daughter out the door to go enjoy it. she always has to have me and her dad get in it with her or friends over to get in. My mom couldn't have got me out the door fast enough if we were allowed to get in whever we wanted to. She has all kinds of things to do here. Games, television, computer, bike, swimming pool, dart board, pool table, movies and more, but she is bored. Whatever!!!!!!!!!!! She has a part time job now and has school so she has no time to be bored. Now she has no time to get bored, she goes to bed and goes to sleep. wore out because now she is getting and learning some responsibility. I didn't get to do any of what she has got to do until I was 19 years old. I had to beg just to get to go to the library to study for a test or do a book report.

That is what I have seen is the things they do have they don't respect. My Mom and Dad never entertained us and I never entertained my son. I have noticed that kids only want to be treated as they are older if it suits their purpose. Other wise they want to be treated as a child. You can't have it both ways.

You go girl. Age doesn't have anything to do with limiting what we can still do. I went to your profile page and you are a year younger than I am. I do things with my three grandkids and have a ball. I am right there in the middle of them playing at what they are playing at. Let's put it this way--they call me crazy granny and I am proud of it. The television isn't allowed on when they are over. Which doesn't bother them because at home they don't watch that much television. They create their own fun. I do agree with you that this generation is a generation of sitting in front of the computer, television, or playstation. There is no real need for others to join in. Which to me is sad. When I was growing up we were outside playing at slaying the dragon. We used tree branches for our swords. So I have to say bored just wasn't in our vocabulary.

Young at Heart is the trick here I feel Sunshinelady. If the body gives up hopefully the mind will continue to function enough with great imagination and memories of past adventures.Up UP and Away!

You have brought up some very good points. It is a world where kids have to be safe guarded because of all the crazy things that happen and especially to kids.

I am not trying to excuse all kids - there are also soe very spoilt, rude and obnoxious children out there but quite often in these cases the parents let them behave unreasonably and then complain after years that their children are anti-social, well d'uh! xxx

I like your idea of sending her outside and having her pick ten things and come back in and either draw a picture or make up a story about the things. Good Idea. Thanks.

I agree with you whole heartedly. I can remember some of the ghost stories that me and my friends would tell in my younger years. We always had something to do and the words were words that I never heard. Our kids today do have to much and to many things. Heck me and my sisters and brothers would pretend boxes were trains running down the track. We would sit in the boxes lined up and run down the tracks and holler out all the wonderful things we saw. Even to the fact of pretending we were going up a mountain in a train. It is a shame that there are kids that don't have the imagination to be able to go and do anything right from their own backyard. It's really a shame.

Family quality time I think most kids today don't know what that is. They are not taught to use their imaginations so therefore they don't know how to play with nothing but their minds and something simple like a tree branch which when I was growing up was used as a sword by us. The play acting that me and my brothers and sisters did was really neat. We used our imaginations for all kind of things to pretend we were. There is no family time even to the small thing of sitting down and eating a meal together. I feel sorry for the kids today. They have all the advantages of the modern world and are lacking in the ability to go off and be pirates but still be in their own back yard. I am bored to me simply says that the imagination is lost in these kids.

But I think that if you came away from the technical stuff every once in a while and did something that involves using your mind without the help of computers or computer games or all the other things that make it easy to have your mind lay dormit in the realm of finding something to do with yourself. I agree with you as far as kids don't seem to be creative. When I say kids I don't mean every kid. I have never made a statement that I think all are in that group. But I have to say I meet a lot that make the statement that they are bored.

You have my total agreement there. The computers in and of themself do not stop the imagination. If used right you could even be more creative. But that is not the way it is generally used. As you say a person goes out and buys a game instead of using there mind and coming up with one on their own. That to me would be more fun and more mind challenging. There is so much a computer could do to challenge your mind if it is used in a challenging way instead of the easy let's go buy a game and play it.

LOL. I have no patience either when my daughter used to say she is bored every day. She has more things than I could have ever dreamed of, but yet she was bored and wanted more or mine and her dad's full attention when she was bored. It literally drove me crazy! She has a part time job now and will be 16 next month so I haven't heard I'm bored in a while now. she is working to buy her own car. She needs responsibilty and they are never to young to learn it!