Why do we get bored?

This has been a question that I have thought about for a while. I have explored ways in which one can be not bored and recognized that being interested in something or having a hobby can help a person in avoiding being bored. Any one with continued interest in an activity like video games, art, music, dance, etc can be considered to have avenues for not getting bored. With time, I have realized that even though a person has such interesting time occupying avenues, but still there are times when boredom cannot be avoided.

There is another take on avoiding boredom, or intellectual staleness. It can be thought that people get bored when they are not able to engage in new thought processes. In other words, to avoid boredom, one may learn how to engage their intellect by deliberate efforts. Parents who try to keep their child from getting bored by keeping children occupied with various activities might also consider training their children to engage their intellectual thinking processes. Other wise children would become dependent on other activities like videos, etc. Children whose education also includes avenues of creating, gathering, analyzing knowledge have venues to keep themselves engaged and not get bored. Gaining education it self can be another avenue that prevents boredom this can be done by introducing reading, creative writing, writing notes from interesting sources, blogging, etc.