Melbourne writer Doug Hendrie gives us a refreshing take on his family's learnings from the 2020 pandemic. Doug's recent article, featured in The Age, speaks to how the lockdown gave him and his children the freedom to be bored! "For me, lockdown was a brief detour into an alternative history. Watching my kids wrestle with that unfamiliar thing – boredom – felt almost precious. They seemed to grow like weeds, branching out this way, trying things, abandoning them, changing, combining." |
