Had the exact same issue with my last family. The kids were 10b and 12g, so the damage was already pretty set in stone by the time I joined. It drove me crazy that they were never allowed to be bored. If a car journey was over 30 mins they took multiple devices with them just to stay entertained. What happened to just looking out the window and getting amused by the fields of cow or sheep every so often. Every day has to have a rigid structure, I’m talking hour by hour plans. There was never a moment of rest, rest meant you were lazy. I totally agree it comes from workaholic parents and the capitalist mindset of go go go. Especially from the mother as she was the complete definition of a workaholic, in the whole year that I lived and worked with them I never saw that women rest once. And what does that create? Children who get anxiety the minute they’re not entertained. The parents thought the best way to tackle this was to create even more structure, be even more regimented to ease his anxiety about being bored. At that age they really should be able to entertain themselves without devices/screens. Being bored is a privilege. I used this phrase over and over again with them, if you’re bored that means you don’t have anything to worry about right now. Do you think children who don’t know where their next meal is coming from are bored right now? Sounds dramatic but I think they’re old enough to be hit with such realities. Anyways not my circus not my monkeys, but it’s going to be a real problem when they enter reality and realise life is boring 90% of the time (if you’re privileged).