THURSDAY THOUGHTS
Are you competitive when you play games with your children?
Let me start by saying that I have huge respect for parents with an endless (endless!!) patience; parents who can play silly games with their children and let them win over and over again. I am not one of those parents. Of course I do sometimes play those silly games, and I do let my children ...
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TOYS & GAMES
Mesdames et messieurs, portable checkers game
This portable set of checkers, 'Mesdames et Messieurs', from the French company Les Jouets Libre, is a big hit in our house. Checkers is a fun (and very old) board game that can easily be played with fairly young children (I would say from the age of 6), and gets more strategic and challenging for ...
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TOYS & GAMES
Mastermind
Way back when, we lived in the USA. I was around 8 years old and I still remember it as clear as day, it made such a huge impression on me. I mean, the ice cream shop carried 33 different flavours of ice-cream and we got to eat our lunch at school wrapped up in ...
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TOYS & GAMES
3-D Tic Tac Toe
My 6-year-old is really into playing games at the moment... so we've been playing a lot of Swap, Mancala and Dobble in the afternoons after school. I must say, my favourite games are the most simple ones. There are so many games these days which have instruction booklets the length of a novel, and loads of ...
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FOR MUMS
Parlour and board games -- endless family fun!
Speaking about Simple Living -- what better family entertainment can you think of than old-fashioned parlour and board games?? I think my kids are probably too little for strategy classics such as Chess, Checkers, Backgammon, or Monopoly— but I can't wait until they are big enough because I just LOVE to sit around a big table and ...
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