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S2 Ep 20: Unleashing The Power of Play With Play with Professor Peter Gray

Raising Good Humans

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Is It Good to Play Family Games With Your Children?

I don't think it's good when parents play with their children and they deliberately lose so the child will win. I think it's important to play a game where you're really all fully playing, but you're not just doing some kind afavor for the child. Some of the better games have a little bit of skill, and the child is learning some kind of skill as a result. We used to play a lot of canasta when i was a kid. Even my six year old brother got really good at canasta,. which was a card game and was very pop at that time. So we did a study through the letbro organization of how children in the age range of eight

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