 So when a kid tells you, I'm bored this summer, it might be tempting for some parents to have quite an extreme negative reaction. I don't think we want to do that. What is your most productive reaction when a kid says, I'm bored? I just let them be bored. I say, oh, okay, well, maybe you can think of something to do and let them keep being bored because I think we only become able to deal with our boredom and come up with things that we might not otherwise think to do when we have that openness to just kind of sit with the silence and