Boredom Quote by Julia Cameron

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

— Ivan Turgenev

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

— Charlie Brooker

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

— Bruce Dickinson

Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent.

— Amanda Ripley

A lot of the things that bore adults don't bore children, and people forget that. In some ways, boredom is a projection of adults…

— Alissa Quart

If a child is off-task...mayb e the problem is not the child...maybe it's the task.

— Alfie Kohn

“Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active imaginations, a…

— Sara Maitland

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.

— Polly Berrien Berends

“The more controlling the parent,” Caldwell explained, “the more likely a child is to experience boredom.”

— Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman

“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can…

— Ellyn Satter

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to…

— John Locke

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their…

— Betty Friedan