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Are you looking forward to those whiny days and nights in which your child tells you how very bored he or she is? Ah, Summer! Kids look forward to it all year long and complain about schoolwork, yet ...

Are you afraid of boredom? In this video, Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks, author of The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life, makes the case that boredom isn’t a problem to escape with ...

Boredom gets a bad reputation. We usually treat it as something to avoid, especially when it shows up in kids. But sometimes that restless, nothing-to-do feeling can actually be good for your brain ...

In her book, How to Be Bored, Eva Hoffman says we should embrace those moments when we'd otherwise be looking for stimulation. Her book is part of a self-help series called The School Of Life. Indeed, ...