Game Night with the Boys
The other night it was just me and the boys at home and so Chandler and I played the Kid’s version of the board game Sequence. Chandler loves this game and we’ve been playing it a lot.
I grew up in a very competitive household. Sports were our life. I had a poster on my wall of a little boy in Baseball gear that said, “I play to win.” That’s what I fell asleep staring at every night.
Without really any guidance from myself, Chandler has become an über competitive kid. He wants to win anything and everything that he can make into a game. I’ve actually felt the need to make him scale it back a bit. I think being a good competitor is a very important part of life, but I also think there needs to be balance.
So playing games with him, whether it’s sports or board games or Juice Pong, has always been an interesting balance of letting him win so he stays engaged in the game, and beating him so that he learns how to handle loss.
With sports like soccer, it can be harder to show him how his actions may have hurt his performance and caused him to lose. But in playing a game like Sequence, I can actually tell him where he made mistakes and how those mistakes had consequences. You’ll see that moment in this video.
You’ll also see a bunch of goofiness and fun because we love playing together.
Putting a little fun into fatherhood…
