engaging face-to-face with others, being active outdoors — and surviving bouts of boredom. We may cringe when we hear a child say that they’re bored, but the truth is that boredom has a number ...

"By the time they reach high school, they are bored and burned out," says Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, former head of child psychiatry at Stanford University and author of The Over-Scheduled Child.

“I feel very passionate about the theme of the book because we are living at a time when kids spend so much time on their devices and don’t allow themselves to be bored,” Mike Bender ...