I'm bored, I have nothing to do."

I tell them if they help me with the housework I'll play a game with them. Usually, this helps. If not, I give the kids a 2 min. "whine time." They can whine and complain about everything and anything without me getting angry about stuff. When the timer goes off, they are usually happier and can find things to do. I have also learned that if I limit their "Screen Time" (tv, movies, video/computer games) to about 30 min. a day they are more motivated to find other things to do. My daughters can spend 24 hours stringing beads onto string, making necklaces.

I hear this all the time!I always tell them there is no way they can be bored!My god,I didn't have any of the things they have at their age and I was never bored!Mind you,I never stayed in the house either.....kids nowadays don't move unless they are told too....

When my kids would whine about haveing nothing to I would find them something to do edpending on thier ages. if they were say about 9 or 10 I would get the mop bucket out and they would mop the kitchen floor. That would be the end of I'm bord for some time. Then I woould find another job for them to do the next time.

I just say to them with all the stuff you have there is no reason for you to be bored. Go outside gather some friends and do some games outside. The thing that really scatters them is when I look at them and start talking about how when I was younger we had to make our own fun. We didn't have all these things that were supposed to keep the children from getting bored. We made our own fun. Of course I don't get very far into it and they are out the door and not looking back. It is funny to me.

I've not heard that from my kids before. What i normally do is to have a schedule for my 2 boys (they are 3 and 5 yrs though). For example, from school, shower, homeowork, revision, play (legos, cycle, etc..), dinner, wash up, reading & winding down time and lastly sleep. This is like a routine to them. We always plan for weekend family outings. Be it a picnic, visiting family and friends, the beach or plain shopping.

yes, yes, yes i get this line every single day, the best is find different activities for them, trust me they get bored fast from the same activity over and over again. so for example ask them to draw you their best picture that you want to see who could do the best. teach them to try to do better then the other. this will keep them busy sometimes. one of the best ones that worked for me when they say that annoying sentence, is if you ever buy them toys let them play with the toys for a while until you see that they get bored and walk away from them, then you should hide the toys for a couple of days. then once they say there bored, ask them do they want to play with the toys you hid. trust me they will forget they were bored. stick with that routine trust me it works, and it works for me all the time.

oh yea the cleaning thing is excellent. Oh you're bored? Go ahead and grab that load of laundry from the dryer for me, lol After a while they'll stop telling you their bored. My son is 6 and he'll say I'm bored and I'll say really? and he'll quickly say no and run lol.. =)