Episode 416 – Growing As a Family with Board Games

We&#8217;re going to talk about what it&#8217;s like to grow up in a gaming family! 0:00:00 Fact for 416 The largest chocolate bar by area measured 416.34 square meters, achieved on 2 December 2024. Sponsor Message What do you do with your tax refund? Do you get a refund at all? If you want to talk to First Move about habits you can build to take the next step toward your goals, go to firstmovefinancial.com/familygamers to schedule a call. 0:04:05 What We&#8217;ve Been Playing Floristry (our review) &#8211; looking forward to trying the update!Flip 7 (our review)Trio (our review)IliadFight 5Animal Rescue TeamDice Throne: Marvel X-men &#8211; review coming soon 0:25:00 The Family Gamers Community Welcome to our newest members! You can join the community on Facebook. 0:25:30 #Backtalk We asked about more topics&#8230; and your silliest #boardgamevalentine (see our TFG valentines). You responded on the #backtalk channel of the Discord. 0:29:00 Growing as a Family with Board Games We started The Family Gamers Podcast when we had three kids, age 7 and under. Back then, we were really just playing with the oldest and trying to find ways to include the preschooler. We started playing very simple games with our oldest when she was probably 3 years old. We did play some CandyLand, but we mostly played simple &#8220;family&#8221; games rather than kids&#8217; games. We were often trying to rule-shift or play games that were very simple (like Zombie Dice, which we mention back in episode 1!), in part because our oldest started reading at a very young age. So we didn&#8217;t need games that avoided reading. She also really enjoyed the adult attention she got from doing &#8220;adult&#8221; things. And then our middle child got old enough to want to join in the games. Unfortunately, we discovered many &#8220;family games&#8221; don&#8217;t work well with multiple children when at least one can&#8217;t read yet. That is when we first realized that when gaming with very young children, games need to be short, with very simple decisions, no reading, and limited symbols &amp; counting. We were barely aware of HABA games and other games geared towards very young children, but we learned! (Episode 36) Teaming Up: Playing with Multiple Children We also would &#8220;team up&#8221; a parent with a kid. The job of the parent was to present and explain the available decisions, without forcing the kid into any specific option.</