The idea that we need more boredom in our overstimulated lives is popular right now. One neuroscientist is calling B.S. on it ...

As strange as it may sound, boredom can also help improve focus. When we’re always switching between apps and screens, our ...

Learn more about the recent social media trend “rawdogging” boredom, and if it could really help improve your attention span.

Beyond screens, short attention spans, and helicopter parents, this post introduces the concept of “entertainment entitlement ...

Millennial parents of today’s generation of kids grew up in a unique, budding world of technology, which also coexisted during a time of pure, organically created boredom. It was a time when weekend ...

When our brains get overstimulated or understimulated, we feel bored. Boredom seems more painful than the heaviest fear. People do anything to escape the feeling. Nature also helps us.

Experts say the sustenance parallel is apt: Boredom functions like pain or thirst, signaling us that something needs to change. But the theory that boredom spawns creativity turns out to have “pretty ...

New research suggests that the psychological traits of mothers and fathers may influence their children’s attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tendencies and boredom levels in distinct ways. The ...

Don’t judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Wise advice; but not so easy to do. How can we enter into the lived experience of another person—how can we think their thoughts and ...

It’s just four hours into a calm, lazy Saturday morning, and I feel a kid tugging at my sweats. “Mom, I’m bored.” Seriously? You haven’t been home for more than a few waking hours in the last week ...

The teens are not all right. Young people are more bored than ever before — and social media, apps meant for entertainment and engagement, is one of the culprits. Santiago Gonzalez-Winthrop, 16, told ...