Our family does not watch a lot of television. For one, it's ridiculous to pay for hundreds of channels we would never watch. And two, we sincerely enjoy our time together.
Each night, we have carved out a dedicated time to DO something together.
After homework, dinner, dishes, and before Z gets ready for bed; we often play a game. Usually our game is accompanied by ice cream.
Lately, we have devolved an addiction to the card game versions of traditional board games. There are several reasons. First, between 7:00 and 8:00, is family time (usually) and we all know you cannot finish a game of real Monopoly in one hour. So we can play as few or as many "hands" of the game as we can fit in the time. Also, it allows for more winners. It has turned out that all three of us are pretty competitive. In order for it to be fun, one player cannot always be winning.
Last night, we played Scrabble SLAM for the first time.
Basically, you start with one, four letter word laid out on the table. For example, "Slam".
Then each player uses the cards in their hand to alter the word by only one letter at a time. The goal is to discard all of the letters in your hand.
So, once we begin; "Slam" turned into "Slap" and then "Slat" and then "Swat" and then back to "Slat"... in a matter of moments. It is the perfect game for a seven year old.
The words are short and he is practicing spelling.
It's certainly fun, but also challenging (even for Ben and I).
We are definitely looking forward to playing it again!
Each night, we have carved out a dedicated time to DO something together.
After homework, dinner, dishes, and before Z gets ready for bed; we often play a game. Usually our game is accompanied by ice cream.
Lately, we have devolved an addiction to the card game versions of traditional board games. There are several reasons. First, between 7:00 and 8:00, is family time (usually) and we all know you cannot finish a game of real Monopoly in one hour. So we can play as few or as many "hands" of the game as we can fit in the time. Also, it allows for more winners. It has turned out that all three of us are pretty competitive. In order for it to be fun, one player cannot always be winning.
Last night, we played Scrabble SLAM for the first time.
Basically, you start with one, four letter word laid out on the table. For example, "Slam".
Then each player uses the cards in their hand to alter the word by only one letter at a time. The goal is to discard all of the letters in your hand.
So, once we begin; "Slam" turned into "Slap" and then "Slat" and then "Swat" and then back to "Slat"... in a matter of moments. It is the perfect game for a seven year old.
The words are short and he is practicing spelling.
It's certainly fun, but also challenging (even for Ben and I).
We are definitely looking forward to playing it again!
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