Exclusive | Kids are more bored than ever, experts say but some NYC parents couldnt care less: Go and figure it out

Moms are on board with boredom.When Renée Gadar’s kids tell her they’re bored, she doesn’t hesitate to repeat the same advice her parents once gave her: You have lots of things to play with — go and figure it out.“And you know what, they do,” Gadar, 40, a hairdresser living in Harlem with her 12-year-old son and 9-year-old daughter, told The Post.“My son will come into the kitchen and talk to me for a couple of hours and then go and read a book.My daughter will play creatively for two hours or start a coloring project.

It’s old school,” she said approvingly.According to data collected by Monitoring the Future, a government-funded organization that studies trends in adolescence, kids are more bored than ever.That’s completely fine, according to Stacey Rosenfeld, PhD, a Rockland County psychologist.The mom of 11-year-old twin boys believes strongly that the state of mind can offer distinct benefits.“Learning how to tolerate boredom is an important skill,” Rosenfeld told The Post.

“There are always going to be times when we’re bored.If we never allow ourselves to have that feeling of wondering ‘What should I do with this time,’ how will we do that as adults?” And it’s never too early to lean into daydreaming and unstructured play, said Upper West Sider Katie Garnovsky, a full-time mom and freelance on-air entertainment correspondent with two daughters, aged 5 and 20 months.“When my five-year-old says ‘I’m bored,’ I ask her to look around and think about what she could do to use her brain,” Garnovsky said.

“We then come up with games like finding things in the house that start with certain letters.”Gadar, who studied early childhood education and once worked as a seventh and eighth grade math teacher, believes that the more time kids spend on devices, the less bored they are, which ultimately stifles creativity.“In my house, I have a low tolerance for technology,” said Gadar, who limits her kids’ access.“Wh...