Let Your Kids be Bored

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Let Your Kids be Bored

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Are you hearing it? "I'm B O R E D, Mom!" It's so easy to turn on the tv or video games just so the kids will be occupied and avoid telling us they're bored, but it's only a good solution for the short term. Kids need to be bored, and today I'm talking about why!

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