Friday 29 June 2012

Simple handy games to play with KIDS

Handy, gently challenging game for children that exercises MENTAL  IMAGERY

Games are supposed to be one of the best possible ways to develop your child and transform his mental ability to conquer the world. It also paves way for ample endurance and a stress and worry free lifestyle for the kid. Moreover, it is also stated to be one of the best methods for efficient peer to peer interactions and communication development skills. Games for kids will always be tagged as creative. This is because most of the kids prefer to invent their own games to play along with their fellow friends.


Raising children is a very difficult job, both mind numbing and exciting, fun and disgusting, often on the same day. I stayed home with my two children for 7 years, so I claim to have some expertise. Sometime late in my tenure as a stay-at-home dad, I invented a game that, as far as I know, is unique and new. I call it the 'handy game' for reasons that will become obvious. First, a little background.


When I was a kid, we sometimes played the following game. One person would press on another person's back firmly with their finger tips. The challenge was simply for the second person to guess how many fingers were pressing on their back. It's not easy. The problem, I suppose, is that we have few nerve endings on our backs and they are separated farther apart than we are usually aware. So the fingers need to be spread far apart, but children have small hands. In this way the players learn a little physiology, and get a few surprises and a few laughs.
Nowadays, we also have many educational games for kids that challenge the mental and creative side of the kid and help him become smart in his academic activities too. The games could include teaching math and other problems in an interactive and fun way with childish animations to enable a better way of understanding o the subject. Such games for kids should be encouraged more everywhere.