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274 | Organized Kids

The Minimalists

CHAPTER

How to Understand Boredom

Sally Kohn: I feel like in this day and age, being comfortable with boredom is almost like a superpower at this point because there's so many distractions. So it depends on the child's skill level. In general, to my kids, I'd say, great. What are you going to do about it? That would be my answer is great. And if we take it away from them, they lose that opportunity to solve problems for themselves. We just want them to be happy. A little bit of distress kind of drives ingenuity. If you train your child to sleep when they're an infant, it's much easier than if you're training them to sleep when he or she

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