{"id":662,"date":"2008-09-25T19:47:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T00:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=662"},"modified":"2008-09-26T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T19:16:33","slug":"learning-card-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Learning card games (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Analise has always enjoyed games.\u00a0 She’s amazing at playing Memory<\/a>.\u00a0 At first – probably a year ago, when she’d just turned 3 – I’d let her win, until I realized she was better than me.\u00a0 We play the Hungry Caterpillar game<\/a>, Chutes and Ladders<\/a>, Blokus<\/a> (mostly just making designs with the tiles), and Dora Dominoes<\/a>.\u00a0 She’s slowly learned about taking turns, but often she doesn’t get parts of the game.\u00a0 For example, with Chutes and Ladders she really wants to land on the slide, which takes you backwards down the board, instead of towards the winning space.\u00a0 And she likes to spin the spinner until she gets the number she wants.\u00a0 We don’t mind playing her way, because it’s all fun and games \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tonight we tried Uno<\/a> for the first time.\u00a0 First off, Analise didn’t nap today, so she was a little teary as it was nearing bedtime.\u00a0 She did really well keeping track of her cards.\u00a0 She caught on to the aspect of laying a matching color or number.\u00a0 We were all down to just a couple cards.\u00a0 But when Brian’s turn came around and he had to draw and draw and draw to get a card to lay, Analise burst into tears.\u00a0 She wanted to get more cards, too.\u00a0 Brian happily passed some over to her.\u00a0 We told her she needed to get rid of the cards to win, and she cried that she didn’t want to win.\u00a0 So we gave her more cards, a whole handful, and she giggled through her tears.\u00a0 We played on and on, giving Analise extra cards, everytime we both got too many.\u00a0 I was sure if she just got down to one and experienced the thrill of yelling “Uno!” she’d want to win, but we never got that far.\u00a0 And after I won, she was more than happy to hear that she “won” with the most cards.<\/p>\n

You’ve got to know when to hold ’em… and know when to pass them to Analise!<\/p>\n

Updated – <\/strong> right after we finished playing, I went downstairs and posted a note to my facebook account while Kristine was unbeknownst to me posting this blog! Here is my version of the story:<\/p>\n

So Kristine and and I are pretty competitive about things – games usually end up in intense battles. Analise just came down the stairs and asked if I wanted to play “Tigger and Pooh”. I stop and go upstairs to investigate and find her and my wife getting ready to play a game of uno using a tigger and pooh uno deck of cards. They deal me in and we are off! Everything is going well. Analise has picked up perfectly on the concept of either matching the color or the number shown on the card just laid down. So everything is fine until Analise plays a card that I can’t match. This also happens to leave her with only two cards in her hands. As I keep on drawing more and more cards without finding a match, Analise starts to wail and sob because I am getting all the cards and she only has two. We try to explain to her that she is about to win. “But I don’t want to win!!!” she sobs. So I come up with a solution: every time I draw a card that doesn’t match I’ll just give it to Analise – and I toss in half of my huge stack of cards for good measure. Well, that doesn’t go over too well with Kristine so she gives Analise a lot of her cards, too – leaving the two of us to duke out. I’ll wrap it up by saying that Kristine and I both make it down to “uno”, but she ends up winning when Analise plays a 7 (out of order) which Kristine also has in her hand. Analise is happy because she has the most cards when the game ends. That’s uno with my wife and my 4 year old! Now it’s back to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Analise has always enjoyed games.\u00a0 She’s amazing at playing Memory.\u00a0 At first – probably a year ago, when she’d just turned 3 – I’d let her win, until I realized she was better than me.\u00a0 We play the Hungry Caterpillar game, Chutes and Ladders, Blokus (mostly just making designs with the tiles), and Dora Dominoes.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,15,51],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-analise","tag-funny","tag-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-aG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}