Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a mom of six kids, summer can be stressful. Trying to fill their days with activities can be exhausting, so I stopped. I want ...

For kids, summer is filled with long days of sunshine and endless possibilities. However, it can also be a season when structure lags, and parents hear the dreaded phrase, "I’m bored!" muttered daily.

Unstructured time isn't wasted time. As the school year winds down and the buzz of summer camps, enrichment programs and extracurricular planning ramps up, a quieter countertrend is starting to gain ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — July is National Anti-Boredom Month; we're talking about kids. School's out, and summer's in, so some kids might get bored. But is that really a bad thing? Kids get bored because ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

Kids used to spend time bored with no digital entertainment, and figuring out how to fill their time taught them important lessons that still matter to this day.

It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday. You’re one coffee in and already Googling “summer activities for 8 year olds” while your child lies dramatically on the floor groaning: “I’m bored! There’s nothing to ...

PHOENIX — Extra free time during summer break could lead to some kids experimenting with drugs and alcohol, an expert who works with high-risk teenagers said. Dr. Jon McCaine with Bayless Healthcare ...

As a mom of six kids, summer can be stressful. Trying to fill their days with activities can be exhausting, so I stopped. I want them to get bored. Boredom encourages my kids to develop ...