bored at 4 years old??

Hi usually give them a pencil and a piece of paper and they stop being bored immediately. I think you are lucky that he wants to keep doing things as you hear of so many children now that dont want to do a thing! One other thing please dont stop writing about your Grandson as I for one will love reading them all.

He is such a cute and lovable boy and the first person he thought when he is bored is his grandmother, brings a lot of delight to any grandmothers. I have not experienced such a beautiful moment conversing with my grandchildren. I am dreaming to be a grandmother but it is unlikely to happen in the next couple of years from now. Children at that age who knows the meaning of boredom is a smart boy. Everything else doesn't seems to appeal to him and prefers to be in the company of people much older then him. He is a child that doesn't fancy doing things for his age. You can discover a lot of surprises from him at this tender age if you keep talking to him. It happen to my son when he was at that age. No amount of toys will pacify him and he needs something more challenging to spend his time. I gave him a lot of encouragement to do what he wanted which lead him to be a successful man now in his adult life. When he was small he always complained of boredom as his thinking is more advanced than his age.

e had few toys and made our own fun. When I was at home alone with my mother I remmber feeling confused as she was deaf and I di not understand why she would not talk to me or answer when I spoke. I remmber that clearly. But I had a whole host of imaginary friends and we would get up to all sorts of adventures whilst my sisters were at school. During the summer we were sent out with sandwiches, water, and an old blanket to go and play. We were not expected home until the evening. My mother was really very careless with me as there were so many war bombed buildings that were dangerous. We lived in a Naval Town that was bombed regularly by the Germans and we would play in these bombed buildings or go to the beach all day. Bored? No. We made our own fun. Gave concerts to the neighbours and sand and danced our hearts out too.

hahahah that is so cute well my sisters son too say this line and how both me and my sister used to laugh when this innocent child tell us they are bored Looks to me you are enjoying yourself too much as a grandmother my lady I would surely want to be a grandfather too but the problem is I am not yet married so i guess I wont leave the day to be a grandfather if I continue this I have to get married soon so someone can call me daddy

Funny, I don't remember being bored at four either. And like you, I don't remember being bored until I was an adult and even that rarely happens...carting kids here and there, I couldn't be bored if my life depended on it. Anyways, my two younger kids (11 and 13) woke up this morning and claimed how bored they were. I can't wait for summer to be over. I would be happy just sitting reading a book, but oh no, these kids have to be consistantly entertained 24/7. I love my kids, but they are driving me nuts this summer!!!!

yeh your grand son is so cute....he know that hes bored at 4yrs old,,,yeh when im 4 yrs of age i dont know what im doin ehehehe....i just playin with my yaya,,,thats why....

That gets on my last nerve when kids say that. Alot of them have more and get to do more than what we ever did as children but they say they are still bored. I was not bored at 4 years old. I found something to do or something to play with and made it fun, whatever it was.

my daughter was always bored from an early age...even now, she is 16 and still doesnt know how to entertain herself. i think that the word 'bored' is now entrenched in our vocabulary. i am with you, i was very good at entertaining myself!

my roomie's neice and nephews used to come visit when they were younger Now, there are PLENTY of things to do here, so the one word I forbade was "bored." I told them that if they were bored, they weren't trying hard enough and they didn't have to come back.

They make you laugh the little ones these days,my grandaughter is in a permanent state of boredom she is now six and so sophisticated,my teenage son tells me he is bored all the time.I say you are bored now you wait till you get to my age.The thing is these days they come on so quick in my day you were given a colouring book and you got on with it.I suppose we must have been the same only we cannot remember.I had to laugh the other days my grandson who is about the same age as your grandson started up he was bored as well.I told him not to start that up,he just picked up his toys and started playing."Ok Nanny" he said. Sometimes it is just something to say I often wonder if they now the true meaning,funny little things, love them.

Maybe i know the feeling of being bored when I was four but I don't know the term for it. Because I grew up with my grandparents and I was the only child in the house. So I don't have playmates. Well, sometime there are kids who was with their moms who drop by for casual talk and that's the only time I play with them. Your grandson is so smart. Kids now are smarter!!!

I don't think I knew what the word "bored" meant when I was four years old, either. I'm sure I got bored sometimes, though. I started kindergarten that year and I remember having to stay home a lot because I was sick so much. I had colds quite a bit. Or, at least my mother and the doctors thought they were colds. Nobody knew what allergies were back then. I just bet that's what they were because it was discovered that's what I had later in life. I still have allergies but not near as bad as I did. You can imagine how "bored" I must have gotten staying home so much. Kathy.

Hello I think your grandson must be a clever boy.He said he was bored.Haha how could we unstand a kid was bored? Maybe he just listened someone saied this words and he picked up.it's didn't have any sense maybe. I guess.I don't know a four years old kid how to understand boring..it's funny!

Well, I remember that when i was four i would get so bored at the shop, if i saw someone i know or a reletives i would run off. I would then get told off and smacked when i got back to my mum and/or dad.

At four, I do not think I knew the word bored. My much older sister would do things to entertain me, tell me stories. My kids were told: If you are bored it means you have not furnished your minds properly. They were never bored as long as they could lay hands on a book, paper, pencil, etc. I ran a daycare, though, and that was all you would hear. I got bored of them, because they were not like my kids. I watched one family, though, in later years, that was a lot of fun. We would take walks and I remember finding huge sycamore leaves. We put them on like Peter Pan hats. Their mom, a teacher, said "Thanks a lot. I never could identify trees very well, and now Steven wants to make a book about leaves!" I imagine she did it, too, though. She was just teasing me. She had begged me to watch her kids while she worked that summer because she knew it would be a lot more than watching TV. That same year in her classroom at the Christian School, she made a raft out of recycled milk jugs.

WHen I was four we were living on a farm......80 acres of fun! We did have some guidelines though as we couldn't go down near the cattle tank or in weeds that were too tall as they were afraid that we would get lost....but I don't think I knew bored either until much later....if I had mentioned "bored" my mom would have shooed us outside!

lol That's cute!! Did you go get him? He sounds like a real cutie! I can't remember anything beyond 5 years old and barely remember bits and pieces after that. My past has put a memory block up so I can't remember much however, I do have a triggered memory where say my brothers would say something about something that happened and I'll either remember or I won't. I knew a gal in Texas that had a memory block and it could not be triggered no matter how hard her siblings tried. Thank goodness mine can be triggered for the most part anyways.

I don't think I was ever bored at 4 years old either. My son will say it sometimes because he hears it from his older sister. I tell my kids that I'll find chores for them to do if they complain about being bored. Ahh, to be young again.

Like you, AL, I don't remember having a bored day in my life. Okay ... one or two, when our parents went bush to hunt for gemstones and it was hot and exhausting. I'm never bored now, either - in fact, there's not enough time to fit in all the books I want to read, telly I want to catch up on, and net-surfing activities! I don't understand boredom - but I think maybe today's children aren't encouraged to use their imagination as much as we probably were. Toys seem to be of limited play value and are often just hideously expensive fads. How many hours can be enjoyed watching a robotic dinosaur shuffle across the room? I remember spending hours making cut-out paper dolls and clothes to dress them in - not to mention writing little books and comics. There were also building blocks, hundreds of farm and zoo animals, little cars, etc. All cheap and endlessly amusing. Not to mention chucking a blanket over a couple of chairs to make a cubby!

Heyya jo! I don't think I was bored until I got older either. I was always into something..lol...I think I may have been quite the hand full I don't think my grandparents were ever bored either..lol..Take care.