This time of the year—when quarterly exams tire out the kids, and when it literally rains on their parade of football games, playground time and play dates—every parent comes to dread the phrase, “I’m bored.”
As it runs like a broken record from the mouths of babes, every repetition sounds like sharp fingernails grazing deeper and deeper down an endless black board, which no amount freshly downloaded games on the iPad can hope to muffle.