Articles Tagged: board games

Children need to be taught that losing is part of real life

By Keith Kendrick, Jul 29, 2011

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with all this encouragement, but children are competitive creatures. They smell a rat when they see undeserving classmates getting rewarded for simply knowing how to put their pants on the right way.

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Top toys for Christmas 2011

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Jun 29, 2011

It may still be flaming June (oh, OK, wet, cold, interspersed with shoulder-scorch June), but the high street stores are already getting with the Christmas spirit and compiling their predictions for the best selling toys for the festive season.

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Gifts for kids 5-10

By Liat Hughes Joshi, Dec 4, 2010

If there's one question that even the most shy school age child will answer quicker than you can say 'Santa', it's "what ...

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Is this the freakiest game for kids ever?

By Emma Cossey, Mar 7, 2010

Recently, we've seen quite a few bizarre games and toys enter the market aimed at kids. Nintendo bought out a Wii game ...

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The best... Retro board games

By Emma Cossey, Sep 13, 2009

I come from a family of competitive people. A big family get together usually involves a couple of glasses of wine followed ...

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