<p>A friend just told me about a cool Scientific American article </p>
<p>[Scientific</a> American: Bored?](<a href=“http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bored--find-something-to-live-for&print=true]Scientific”>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bored--find-something-to-live-for&print=true) </p>
<p>about how to deal with boredom. This is practical information for many students, and maybe for a few of us parents.</p>
<p>Great article. When people, child or adult, tell me that they are bored, I think they have no inner resources. That is pretty much what this article is confirming.</p>
<p>There are different kinds of boredom. One is the kind that comes from waiting helplessly in a queue. Another comes from doing repetitive stuff. Another, more relevant to CC, is the result of being unchallenged in a class. Some parents report that their gifted child was told to learn how to twiddle his thumbs in such classes. That is the wrong way to teach someone to cope with boredom.</p>