The Chronicles Of Nay

Hello! Happy Thursday. Just a quick before work update! So glad it’s Thursday. I am exhausted the good news is that I have a long weekend so I am hoping to get some stuff done around the house, hopefully get some work done for my classes. I have a paper I know is coming up so and I need to at least start on it. and then I think I have parts of a paper due for the other class next week.

Ok I know you are wondering what does that have to do with losing. I will tell you, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, older siblings… let your kids lose! I am not saying play your games with no mercy but kids need to learn how to lose gracefully! Letting them win everytime is not helping anyone.

The last 2 days we have been playing a game very similar to maybe sorry? There is a little person that is navigating the playing field. If the kids answer a question correctly they get to roll the dice and move. If they got the question wrong they moved back 2 spaces and if they land on a space with the zombie they are sent all the way back to the start. I want you to know the amount of melt downs I had over the 2 days because kids kept getting eaten by a zombie was ridiculous! I had a kid that got up and left the room. I had another child put his head down and. was crying.

It is very evident which of my students don’t play games at home. You know the child that told me “I hate myself when I land on a zombie!” or “I don’t want to play anymore!” and then just the whining about getting sent back to the start. It is frustrating, yes. I am not saying it isn’t! But it also ig wasn’t life or death!

As I was talking to one of my colleagues about the fact that kids don’t play board games. Or that kids don’t know how to lose, he brought up a good point. He said that kids don’t like to do things they aren’t arelady good at.

So if you have kids, from a teacher that says literally hundreds of them regularly, make your kids do things they aren’t good at! let them lose! I mean I am not saying make them play black jack with you over and over again so that you can practice counting cards and never let them win. but what I am saying is play the game the way the rules say, don’t let them roll again so that they don’t have to ride the chute down, or let them roll again to land on a ladder!

On that note I hope everyone has a great rest of your week!!