Card and board games foster social engagement in kids who are otherwise socially awkward, enhance problem solving and math skills, and are relatively safe and easy to monitor for parents and guardians.
Never understood how everyone is onboard with toddlers “learning through play” but suddenly kids hit 10 years old and people think everything that’s not going on a college application is a waste of time.
"Never understood how everyone is onboard with toddlers “learning through play” but suddenly kids hit 10 years old and people think everything that’s not going on a college application is a waste of time."
There's a really great museum in Rochester, New York called The Strong Museum of Play. It is devoted entirely to childhood play. There's a section on Sesame Street, comic books, TONS AND TONS of children toys, and they opened a brand new section on the history of video games. It also hosts both the National Toy Hall of Fame and the World Video Game Hall of Fame. The whole ethos of that museum is the importance of play in our development and our lives, and how we should embrace it, and not treat it dismissively.
I've gone several times, but man my last visit back in 2023 and seeing the new section on the history of video games weirdly made me emotional...because I had been bullied for loving video games as a kid, and my dad was also super anti-video games. Seeing that whole wing devoted to people who worked on video games and seeing them treated as an important art form that had a positive impact on human development...that was incredible. Definitely recommended.
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u/GMadric Feb 10 '25
Card and board games foster social engagement in kids who are otherwise socially awkward, enhance problem solving and math skills, and are relatively safe and easy to monitor for parents and guardians.
Never understood how everyone is onboard with toddlers “learning through play” but suddenly kids hit 10 years old and people think everything that’s not going on a college application is a waste of time.