A GROUP OF KIDS BROKE INTO & RAMSACKED A HOME

The reason why?

They were bored.

That’s the news I received when I was in line at a fast food joint I visit regularly. A good friend of the family walked up to me and asked me casually had I heard of the particular incident in an upper middle class neighborhood a few miles from my residential neighborhood.

I recollect a time when a friend of mine did a stint in law enforcement. He mentioned most car break-ins, done by teens, are due to teens wanting to joyride.

Did Twitch have a falling out with a few hormonal raging teens?

Has Call Of Duty Vanguard not lived up to the billing and tempers flared at the screen?

Are they becoming burned out on social media apps? Maybe social media don’t have the power over teen lives as some reports.

PSYCHOLOGY ON BOREDOM AND TEEN RISK TAKING

A lack of daily stimulation from activities of purpose (work, chores, education) leads to depression and signs may not be telling to the parent(s). Without appropriate role models a bored kid means trouble (Psychology Today, March 26 2018 — Boredom, Violence and Passion by Diana Raab, Ph.D).

A further study by Biolacti, in 2018, showed the more bored they teens are, the riskier behavior they…