I remember once, playing Monopoly when I was about 13, I landed on a high rent space for the second straight roll, then picked up the whole board, with money, card, houses, and slammed it against the wall. My sister, 15 months older than I am, looked to be in horror and she ran outside to the back gate and went out, but then she looked back, and I'm not sure how long she stood there before coming back in the house. I must have appeared I was going to kill everyone there.
Maybe games have their downsides, in some ways, but I still favor playing them and learning logic and strategy.
Oh for heaven's sake!!
How about dealing with child slavery?
Starvation?
Child abuse?
Murder??
Nope, gotta deal with board games that will cause someone to become a broker of organs when they grow up!!
OY!!
What a totally ridiculous article. What we need are more families sitting around board games instead of TV! Or any kind of games. Our grown son was over the other day with some Wii type games for his X-box, and we had a blast. As a family while he was growing up, Monday night was always family night. We went out for supper then played games of various kinds. Great clean fun.
Some of the best, most wonderfull, wholesome memories that I have are playing board games with my family during my and my sisters growing up years.
Gosh, it was great to be a kid, and be able to "stick it to" your Mom or Dad playing a board game!
To send Dad back to the starting point playing Aggravation (when he was 1 move away from victory!), or watch Dad turn Mom into a pauper playing Monopoly.
The only negative thing that happened to us was our sides hurt from laughing so hard!!
You and I are usually on the opposite ends of the issues, but, we AGREE on this. I guess I still have hair because I never learned to play chess! :thumbsup: