Trying to entertain kids who are tired of being cooped up at home? Try some of these parent-approved games and activities. We pulled advice, recommendations, and more from our TODAY Parenting Team ...

Beyond screens, short attention spans, and helicopter parents, this post introduces the concept of “entertainment entitlement ...

Millennial parents of today’s generation of kids grew up in a unique, budding world of technology, which also coexisted during a time of pure, organically created boredom. It was a time when weekend ...

It happens about this time every year: Bored Kid Syndrome. We’ve all experienced it. School is out, the sweet freedom from classes has waned, friends are nowhere to be found and it’s hot. Everyone is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a mom of six kids, summer can be stressful. Trying to fill their days with activities can be exhausting, so I stopped. I want ...

GUNNISON, Utah — Do you have your summer plans all set? Are you stressed trying to figure out what to do with your kids that are now home from school the next few months? Maybe you relieve some of ...

I want to recommend Darby Saxbe’s recent piece in the Washington Post about the benefits of boredom for children. She argues that we are over-parenting our children with costs to both ourselves and to ...

Ask a child in the midst of an evening’s worth of homework what she’d like to do during summer vacation, and the answer is certain and clear: Nothing. (Translation: No camps or classes. Just sleep, ...