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The surprising benefits of board games for your child

The fun use of board games is another wonderful opportunity for parent-child interactions that can promote and enhance learning lessons for life, and at times, avoid boredom.

The following are just a few of the ideas written by Jean Barly in Toy Times Magazine, September 2020:

  • Learn to Take Turns.  Provides lessons on patience and fairness.
  • Learn How to Win.  Provides lessons on humility.
  • Learn How to Lose.  Provides lessons to learn that failure is an opportunity to grow.
  • Build Resilience.  Doing your best results in winners for life.
  • Practice Delayed Gratification.
  • Help Develop Strategies of Thinking.  Improves observation skills while increasing social awareness.
  • Reduce or Even Banish Boredom.  Activity is a good escape.
  • Play Equalizes.  See the great feeling your child experiences when winning.  Same goes for you.
  • Take a Risk.  Opportunity to learn the balances between risk and rewards.
  • Build Confidence.  Opportunities to enhance competence in counting, score keeping, attention, focus, memory, and other cognitive and affective skills.

Now a few words of CAUTION!

As a parent or other adult, please be sure to select board games that are most suitable to the child’s developmental age, (i.e., fine motor, gross motor, number skills, language skills, social-emotional level, and other development characteristics and skill levels).

A good reference source is www.drgsbrainworks.com.

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