Welcome boredom into your child’s life

What if you opened your arms and shouted to the four corners of the Earth: “welcome boredom into your child’s life?

What if I told you that it is crucial for the development of your child’s mind?

Imagine now, that you find out that boredom can also be the primal source of creativity?

Have you stop to watch how your child pours out his/her energy daily?

Nowadays, most children spend more time on the internet, watching tv, on tablets, strolling in shopping malls or with machines, instead of their peers, their families.

Welcome boredom into our lives!

This is why I say and repeat to you, time and time again: “welcome boredom!”

Is with boredom that your child is going to gain consciousness. How? The mind gets rid of what is superfluous, what is secondary and creates space for self-reflexive thoughts to emerge.

This way, the child connects to herself, with her essence and ranges, by herself, a path of self-exploration.

The child creates her own games, without a script. At her own pace and according with her values. She lives in the present.

And a child who knows how to play is an adult who knows how to live! Your child, can and should, simulate life through play. Without following pre-established rules, creating his own guidelines.

A few days ago we’ve found, in Portugal, a magical place, idyllic to welcome delicious moments of boredom: Parque Rural do Tambor.

A child that knows how to play
is an adult that knows how to live!

Once more I tell you:” welcome boredom!”, ground where your child finds space to BE, to experience, to think and to step out of the box. Where he assumes the leading and secondary roles, as he pleases.

There’s more, if you believe that boredom is “abandoning” your child, with nothing to do, don’t fool yourself! Is giving him freedom!

Freedom of choice and to learn how to handle the consequences.

It’s where imagination flows, where with springs he builds a spaceship, with tiny rocks draws a mandala, with fallen petals, fills it with colour and texture, in the swing crosses the galaxy…

What’s preventing you from trusting your child and allowing her to feel bored?

And it’s also through boredom that we get here:

“Each child is born with Great possibilities, with such potential that if she’s allowed and helped to develop her own individuality without any restraints from others, we will have a beautiful world, we will have a lot of Budas, a lot of Jesuses, we will have a formidable variety of geniuses.”, Osho

Let say it in unison: “let boredom be welcome!”.

By the way, how long don’t you let yourself feel bored and turn off technologies?…