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Do Boardgames Really Send the Wrong Message to Our Children???

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Alcott

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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.
 
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annsni

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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!!
 
John of Japan

John of Japan

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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.
 
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Alive in Christ

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Family board games...bad??? :laugh:

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!!

What good times we had.. :thumbs:
 
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mandym

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From the absurd article:

This board game pits family members against one another, teaching children several important economic lessons: how to stifle competition, squeeze rent from squatters that stop by their properties and exert maximum profits at all costs. Before you know it, you'll have a mini-mogul on your hands. Besides, what 8-year-old shouldn't learn how to handle $500 bills with ease and get out of jail free?
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Someone really needs to get a life.
 
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Arbo

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I've heard reports that the Huffington Post is not doing so well. If it's running stories like this, it must be collapsing upon itself.
 
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blackbird

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Alcott said:
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.
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I love Monolopy and will play it anytime anywhere----and even when I find myself loosing-----I lose "like a MAN!!!!!!":laugh:

We played a lot while growing up with my sister and her friends----my sister was the all time Banker------Capitolism at its best!!!!!
 
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NaasPreacher (C4K)

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Brilliant example of the lost art of satire.

The editors at HuffPost were divided on this one. Healthy Living editor Laura Schocker maintained that it encourages kids to consume an excess of empty calories. HuffPost Parents managing editor Farah Miller agreed it was probably responsible for the childhood obesity epidemic (along with unhealthy cafeteria food, poor nutritional education and a lack of physical activity). Some of us, however, insisted that the only message we got from the game was that we should eternally wish to be Princess Lolly and/or Queen Frostine. Because at the end of the day, all of these board games really do espouse one theme we are very much in favor of: ridiculous, don't-think-too-hard-about-it FUN.
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HeDied4U

HeDied4U

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The article came from the Huffington Post.

That says all you need to know.

Bunch of wackos over there.
 
John of Japan

John of Japan

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mandym said:
From the absurd article:

"This board game pits family members against one another, teaching children several important economic lessons: how to stifle competition, squeeze rent from squatters that stop by their properties and exert maximum profits at all costs. Before you know it, you'll have a mini-mogul on your hands. Besides, what 8-year-old shouldn't learn how to handle $500 bills with ease and get out of jail free?"

Someone really needs to get a life.
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More like: "Monopoly teaches the principles of capitalism, so good socialist families should avoid it at all costs."
 
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