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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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Do you let your kids win when you play games with them? I'm talking anything from Candyland with a 3 year old to chess with an 8 year old to Wii tennis with a 10 year old -- everything included. How does your child react to losing? How does he react to winning?
13 replies [ Reply | Watch | MoreUnder 5 let them win almost all the time. You can teach them to be good winners. Obviously if you are playing a game of skill that you would win every time you have to let them win sometimes--and that includes 10 year olds. Maybe you can agree together some kind of fair handicap for you or maybe you can do it for yourself. It should be fun.
[ Reply | More ]I never let them win in a game of mostly luck/pure luck (like War, Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders) ... at least, not after they've been taught the game the first time. I let them win in the beginning when they're learning games that involve more skill (like Sorry, Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Mancala), but I also teach them the strategy behind the game. As soon as I think they understand whatever strategy's involved, I pretty much play them fair and square (with an occasional "gift" game if the game's hard). My dc are 8 and 5, by the way.
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