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Your Child Is Bored. Here's Why That's the Best News You've Heard All Week.

My daughter said 'I'm bored' fourteen times before 10am one Saturday. By 11am she'd invented a game, written three rules for it and taught it to her brother. I hadn't done a single thing. That's th...

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The One Hour That Changed Everything About How My Children Play
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The One Hour That Changed Everything About How My Children Play

I didn't buy anything. I didn't plan anything. I just put a box of random materials on the table and walked...

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Try this next time your child is stuck (don’t give the answer)
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Try this next time your child is stuck (don’t give the answer)

What you say in that “I can’t do it” moment can either build confidence… or take it away.

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