But presumably you don’t just stare at the wall. “Humans need something to do” is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It’s the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.
It doesn’t have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.
And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.
If anyone told that child to literally sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, that’s some of the most abysmal parenting I can think of. I’ve literally never heard of it happening to any child except in cases of abuse.
It’s always particularly frustrating when someone accuses you of what they themselves are doing, not as a rhetorical tactic, but because they’re just too goddamn stupid to realize what they’re doing. I can’t just say to you “actually you’re the one missing the point” cause you’ll just go “nuh uh” like a 6 year old and ignore what I’m saying.
So anyway, I guess my point is, you’re probably not qualified to have conversations. Like at all.
The fact that you’re at odds with everyone else in the thread should tell you everything you need to know, but the entire point of the post was that giving their child something to do solved a lot of problems.
Humans don’t respond well to having nothing to do.
But presumably you don’t just stare at the wall. “Humans need something to do” is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It’s the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.
It doesn’t have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.
And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.
I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
That is exactly what I said, and exactly what I meant. People need something to do.
Well. In that case, what a stupid and pointless thing to say.
It’s the entire moral of the story.
If anyone told that child to literally sit still and do nothing for an extended period of time, that’s some of the most abysmal parenting I can think of. I’ve literally never heard of it happening to any child except in cases of abuse.
You are incredibly good at missing the point.
It’s always particularly frustrating when someone accuses you of what they themselves are doing, not as a rhetorical tactic, but because they’re just too goddamn stupid to realize what they’re doing. I can’t just say to you “actually you’re the one missing the point” cause you’ll just go “nuh uh” like a 6 year old and ignore what I’m saying.
So anyway, I guess my point is, you’re probably not qualified to have conversations. Like at all.
The fact that you’re at odds with everyone else in the thread should tell you everything you need to know, but the entire point of the post was that giving their child something to do solved a lot of problems.
Humans don’t respond well to having nothing to do.