Boredom also came up in the ECFE classes I attended, including Jessie’s, with the instructor herself confessing that she found it dull to play “My Little Pony” when her daughter was small. “That was the most negative emotion I experienced as a father,” recalls Gilbert. “Boredom. Throwing the ball back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. The endless repetition, the can-you-do-it-again, the can-you-read-the-same-story-one-more-time. There were times I just thought, Give me a gun.”
I don’t remember this happening often, even when children really young. Perhaps my memory fails me though. Definitely fight against monotony and endless repetition (of books, movies, games). Help stimulate invention of new games and activities. And it’s fascinating to watch children learn and evolve and have pure joyful fun.
