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Christa D’Souza says fighting boredom is a vital, but endangered life skill

Do your children ever complain of boredom? If they do, what is your first response? To drop everything and get down on your knees and play? Or to shrug your shoulders and say, just as your parents might have said to you, ‘It’s only boring people who get bored... now go away’?

If you’re like me, it’ll be the former.  And if you aren’t the person getting down on your hands and knees, you’ll have employed someone to do it in your stead. Don’t worry — you, me —we’re not alone.

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