One of the things that keeps us from going insane when the weather gets ridiculous is playing games. We spent the better part of Sunday playing board games. My brother-in-law has an affinity for more eclectic games and owns quite a number of them. It’s not uncommon for any of these games to come with a rule book that rivals most textbooks in length and depth. Most are steeped with strategic cunning and feature hardly any luck, so if you want to win you better be willing to know the game inside and out. That usually involves a lot of reading.
We ended last night by playing a 3 hour game that involved more reading than playing… and strangely enough, it was fun. It makes me wonder if twenty years from now my own kids would be willing to play such a game. So much entertainment today is passive. When was the last time you heard a kid reading a book for fun? Right now our kids both like to read but they only associate it with school and not entertainment. I hope we can continue to encourage the reading habit with our kids.
What say you?