What do you do when your child comes to you and says, I’m bored? If you’re like most parents, you start to try to help them come up with ways to alleviate their boredom. You name off ten, twenty options and each is met with eye-rolls or long-suffering sighs. And at some point you give …
Distraction
So, I just read an article that says an experiment was done with rats, and they placed some mama rats and their babies in cages that did not have sufficient material for nesting or bedding. This apparently led to the mama rats running around looking for better surroundings ( like any mama would do!) and ended up …