odin’s maker table has a copy of “how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself” sitting on it so we certainly don’t need much convincing of the correctness of new research that reinforces that “children should be allowed to get bored so they can develop their innate ability to be creative” which, amusingly, is pretty much what percival chubb was saying in 1911 in the new york times, “Not knowing how to play themselves, parents do not realize the necessity of making their children play. A child should be kept childish, and his interest kept in childlike things. “his development should be slow rather than rapid.”