Want to be a great parent? Let your children be bored

Sep 26, 2016

Students listen to their teacher during class outside their school compound that was taken over by Shi'ite Houthi rebels, who had moved armoured vehicles into the compound, during recent fighting with government forces in Sanaa September 29, 2014. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi

What would happen if children were just left to be bored from time to time? Image: REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi

Teresa Belton

Visiting Fellow, University of East Anglia

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