Eva Mendes was bringing back boredom for her children this summer, I could’ve jumped for joy. Because in just a few words, she confirmed what I’ve recently discovered. ‘I really feel like when we’re bored – not stimulated by a phone or an iPad or computer or television – that’s when ideas come in,’ she said, explaining that while her family had spent a few months in London while her oh-so-dreamy hubby Ryan Gosling was filming there recently, she took her children on a ‘ton of field trips’ but now they’re home, she’s decided they won’t be doing as much.
Until recently, the idea of my children being bored was my biggest nightmare – mostly, I think, because of lockdown. Theo was two and a half when the pandemic struck and Immy was just five months.
Stuck in a flat with no outside space, I was determined that we’d do something new every day. You know, other than just watching films.
Not naturally gifted at arts and crafts, I searched YouTube and Pinterest for ideas and then battled on, making Elmer the Elephants out of empty milk bottles and Paddington Bears out of used toilet rolls.
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