Over the past year or so I've learned that kids and board games don't mix very well. There is always come kid cheating because they're losing, crying because they're losing, being obnoxious because their winning or crying because that other kid is cheating and how life is unfair...etc., and they all give me a headache. Aren't board games supposed to be for kids? how do you get kids to play board games like their supposed too?
Depends on the age of the children. If you play with/for them they may take an interest. Free Range children don't work well.
You fold up the board and ...WHACK... the little critters with it if they do stupid stuff! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! With the computer games they have today you don't see that many kids playing those board games any longer. Electronic stuff is just more fun for them and all the kids, or allot of them have PC games or other types of electronic games. Look at just these for example,.....for free too! http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&star...S7polr&usg=AFQjCNFJmq1TV-q_MC8PKacJO0i7ASW9sQ
I did whack one of the children. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Except it was my brother and he isn't really a small child, but it made me feel better. I suggested videogames on rainy days, but everyone gets all caught up in the ratings of games... So frustrating. They prefer to run around but I don't have the kind of energy they do in the middle of the night. I work during the day, I don't know where they get all of that energy from.
They don't work, they are very young and they eat sweets, perhaps that could be part of the answer. :shrug: Most car racing videos, airplane and other racing games are rated "G" I would think. You can read the box and determine if you'd want your kids to watch them I'm sure. Then there are the online games as well and they are free and very tame for the most part.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I refuse to buy any of my nephews or my niece any video games. My kids will not have them either. Board games are wonderful. They develop patience, imagination, a sense of fair sportsmanship and togetherness that video games can't touch as a general rule.
vi-but those leave obvious marks. Subtle abuse is the key. Electric shocks from "holding the two coat hangers in the slots" leave almost no marks.
Board games are a pain in the ass, I've decided. I've tried so many different methods of getting all of these kids to play a board game, but most of them lack the patience. So unless they beg me to let them play a board game. We won't play any more. I found educational video games for the little ones and when I'm watching the older kids we had a blast playing some knock off version of DDR and I know it was a bad thing for me to do without asking their parents, but I let them play Dead Or Alive 3 on xbox and they loved that too. When they're playing video games no one complains about cheaters and no one even got mad because they were losing it was great. Hopefully none of their parents will complain, but it's only a matter of time.
I'd rather find clever ways to help them develop their patience, self-esteem and good sportsmanship than simply say, "Well, that's how they are" and let these things fall by the wayside. Not only would giving in not help them develop these strengths, but the little they have will deteriorate.
Perhaps, but their parents can teach them those values. They can gain self-esteem and good sportsmanship from playing video games. I'm there to watch them until their parent's come back from work and pick them up. I don't want to force them to be miserable when they could be having fun doing something they actually enjoy doing. Plus even I lack the maturity to sit through another game of Risk and if they start biting each other again I don't know who I might have beat.
Oh I don't have any children of my own. If I ever do have kids they'll most likely hate me for being so super strict.
Every so often on "Family Night" we all play a board game. It is actually my youngest who picks that as the thing to do that night. We play a game called TALISMAN, which is pretty complicated at first. It takes a lot of patience too because it can last for hours and we sometimes even have to stop till the next day. Both of my boys have been playing board games from a young age. In the beginning they got bored sometimes and I would say fine, you don't want to play anymore and pack it up. They have never thrown any tantrums or took off because they are losing. It is something you have to teach them at a young age I think. You need to teach them that they won't always win and not to be sore losers. They are good at that when playing either board games or Video games. My neighbors son used to come over and play X box with my son. I always knew when he was losing because I would hear the door slam and he would go home. He would just throw a controller on the floor and storm out. I told him that he wasn't going to come over and play the X box anymore if he couldn't control himself. He got better with age, but still gets all riled when he is losing something. I think it is up to the parents to nip it in the bud if they see their kid acting out just because he isn't winning something.
When I was a kid I remember playing the board game Sorry a lot. When my cousins would come over we would usually play Monopoly and when I got older Scrabble. Wouldn't you just love to have a game of Scrabble with Asguard....LOL
Whenever I go to my borther's house (it was once a week until my schedule changed) we play borad games and cards all night. He has four sons (18, 18, 7 and 8). I looked forward to that every week.
I think it's good because you are actually paying attention to eachother and carrying on conversations. It is completely different then playing X Box/ Playstation whatever. I find it good family time together. My youngest one (7) has gotten into playing Stratego with Nietzschefan since he brought back his old board game when he went back home for a visit.
How about you and me have a good old fashion game of Battleship. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! That is another game I used to play a lot with my brother when I was a kid.
