In my last blog, I started telling you about the benefits of playing board games with your child. I want to take this a little further with you, so I am sharing even more generic benefits.
Board games are a great escape route from the worries of life, bringing more happiness and joy. Through play, you can highlight the different needs of each individual and increase reflecting, reviews, and self-evaluation for improvement. You can’t just behave how you want when you feel like it, developing self-control. Planning ahead and weighing up your decisions and actions.
Health benefits of exercising the brain is a great one: if you are part of the older generation, playing games is an inexpensive way to keep your brain active and healthy and, hopefully, tackle aspects of dementia or age-related memory loss. When you play games, you have to think and make decisions. Some games make you memorize or spell. The act of learning the rules of a new game also gives the brain a boost. Adults can benefit immensely from them too as it improves memory retention and focuses.
Encourages healthy competition, everyone is driven as they have a chance of winning, otherwise, kids won’t want to play if there are going to always lose because they are not great at math(s). Raises self-esteem and confidence, reducing shyness, by promoting positivity and hope by teaching you to pick yourself up and try again, that you should aim to be a winner. If you don’t win, it is not the end of the world; at least you tried your best and know what to do better next time and try again.
Developing many important life skills that help people learn how to deal with the demands and challenges of everyday life, helping to build cognitive function. Quality family time playing a board game, making memories is recreational and solves the conundrum of how to entertain the kids and relax after a hard day or week at work.
According to an IBM study called the Global CEO Study, creativity is the factor that determines the most success for leadership and the future. This was the major finding from a survey involving 1,500 CEOs in thirty-three different industries across sixty countries.
Does this not tell us how important it is that we do creative things with our children? Need a helping hand to start in the right direction, go and contact us now.
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