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Re:Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says (2013) by coldtea on Monday July 29, 2024 @04:51AM (#41098925)
>I'm just old enough to have spent the first ~14 years of my life without any personal computing devices, and I remember the boredom being agonizing.

If you lived in a farm 200 miles from any kid in rural Nebraska maybe. And even there there would be tons of adventures to have on one's own.

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Re:Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says (2013) by CleaveIt2Beaver on Monday July 29, 2024 @01:55PM (#41102304)
Trying to argue around the circumstances of a one-line anecdote is peak HN. Your experience of the world doesn't invalidate theirs, and vice versa.
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