Thanks! My daughter got my husband and me Storyworth so we are recording memories like that. I am happy to say that my kids do still have family dinners with their children most nights and we all have dinner together, too. Politics is so disturbing these days I don’t think they discuss it a that table, though. Their kids are still pretty…
Thanks! My daughter got my husband and me Storyworth so we are recording memories like that. I am happy to say that my kids do still have family dinners with their children most nights and we all have dinner together, too. Politics is so disturbing these days I don’t think they discuss it a that table, though. Their kids are still pretty young.
Growing up we kids had a lot more free time and freedom to roam, play with friends, etc. with no adult supervision. Today most kids are in a lot more organized activities and have little free time.
Storyworth sounds really good, thanks for recommending that and thanks for the nice comment!
There seems to be a very good reason to let kids be kids and run wild, unstructured. Boredom is good for us :) I remember afternoons daydreaming in a big summer field, watching the clouds is very relaxing for hours. Downtime is good for everyone. In our rural area, the kids went off to play on their own up at the ball field in the neighborhood, and the folks just sent the family dog with us as a chaperone. It worked fine. Enjoy your day, T!
"....It turns out, however, that a certain level of boredom might actually enhance the creative quality of our work. That’s the implications of two recently published papers focused on the link between feeling bored and getting creative.
In the first paper, researchers Sandi Mann and Rebekah Cadman, both at the University of Central Lancashire, explained the creativity-boosting power of boredom in two rounds of studies. In both rounds, participants were either assigned the boring task of copying numbers from a phone book or assigned to a control group, which skipped the phone book assignment. All participants were then asked to generate as many uses as they could for a pair of plastic cups. This is a common test of divergent thinking—a vital element for creative output that concerns ones ability to generate lots of ideas. Mann and Cadman found that the participants who had intentionally led to boredom through the phone book task had generated significantly more uses for the pair of plastic cups.
Next, Mann and Cadman wanted to see what would happen when they really bored people out of their minds. So in a second round of their study, they created three groups—one control group, one phone-number-copying group, and a third group given the even duller task of simply reading the phone book. All three groups completed another task requiring creativity. In this case, the most bored group – the completely passive group of phone-book-readers – scored as the most creative, even out-scoring those assigned to the same phone book copying task from the first study. The findings suggest that boredom felt during passive activities, liking reading reports or attending tedious meetings, heightens the “daydreaming effect” on creativity—the more passive the boredom, the more likely the daydreaming and the more creative you could be afterward."
Thanks! My daughter got my husband and me Storyworth so we are recording memories like that. I am happy to say that my kids do still have family dinners with their children most nights and we all have dinner together, too. Politics is so disturbing these days I don’t think they discuss it a that table, though. Their kids are still pretty young.
Growing up we kids had a lot more free time and freedom to roam, play with friends, etc. with no adult supervision. Today most kids are in a lot more organized activities and have little free time.
Storyworth sounds really good, thanks for recommending that and thanks for the nice comment!
There seems to be a very good reason to let kids be kids and run wild, unstructured. Boredom is good for us :) I remember afternoons daydreaming in a big summer field, watching the clouds is very relaxing for hours. Downtime is good for everyone. In our rural area, the kids went off to play on their own up at the ball field in the neighborhood, and the folks just sent the family dog with us as a chaperone. It worked fine. Enjoy your day, T!
Harvard Business Review
https://hbr.org/2014/09/the-creative-benefits-of-boredom :
The Creative Benefits of Boredom
David Burkus, September 09, 2014
"....It turns out, however, that a certain level of boredom might actually enhance the creative quality of our work. That’s the implications of two recently published papers focused on the link between feeling bored and getting creative.
In the first paper, researchers Sandi Mann and Rebekah Cadman, both at the University of Central Lancashire, explained the creativity-boosting power of boredom in two rounds of studies. In both rounds, participants were either assigned the boring task of copying numbers from a phone book or assigned to a control group, which skipped the phone book assignment. All participants were then asked to generate as many uses as they could for a pair of plastic cups. This is a common test of divergent thinking—a vital element for creative output that concerns ones ability to generate lots of ideas. Mann and Cadman found that the participants who had intentionally led to boredom through the phone book task had generated significantly more uses for the pair of plastic cups.
Next, Mann and Cadman wanted to see what would happen when they really bored people out of their minds. So in a second round of their study, they created three groups—one control group, one phone-number-copying group, and a third group given the even duller task of simply reading the phone book. All three groups completed another task requiring creativity. In this case, the most bored group – the completely passive group of phone-book-readers – scored as the most creative, even out-scoring those assigned to the same phone book copying task from the first study. The findings suggest that boredom felt during passive activities, liking reading reports or attending tedious meetings, heightens the “daydreaming effect” on creativity—the more passive the boredom, the more likely the daydreaming and the more creative you could be afterward."