Parenting: 'I'm bored'

11:25 am on 18 December 2025

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Summer holidays come with plenty of opportunities for children to utter that often heard complaint - "I'm bored". 

Zhenlin Wang unpicks whether that's a bad thing and if parents can, or should, do anything about it. 

A former early childhood teacher, with PhDs in developmental psychology, she's now Associate Professor at Massey University.