{"id":1440,"date":"2010-03-25T23:40:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents-blog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2022-06-15T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:28:39","slug":"the-family-that-plays-together-stays-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/activities-and-outings\/games\/the-family-that-plays-together-stays-together\/","title":{"rendered":"The family that plays together stays together!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was never one of those parents who played games with my kids. Admittedly they were too small for anything more than snap and memory up until a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kiara\u2019s play therapist recently suggested we start playing games together. There were a few reasons she suggested this<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We watch too much TV<\/li>\n<li>It teachers children about consequences<\/li>\n<li>It builds up trust<\/li>\n<li>And its fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So off I went and borrowed a variety of games from a friend and every night for the past 6 weeks we have played games after dinner. It really does make a difference. It has cut down on the amount of TV that Cameron watches which is great and seems to be teaching Kiara the desired lessons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago her tantrums were frequent when she did not get her own way as a result of something she had done\/not done but this morning when she asked me if she gets her treat and I replied no because you did not do what I asked she said \u201cSo it\u2019s a no\u201d and walked away calmly. I am not attributing this solely to the playing of UNO every night but I do believe it is a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>We also now play games in the car like \u201cI spy\u201d which makes for much laughter and is making us all aware of what is going on around us.<\/p>\n<p>While I will admit that some evenings the last thing I want to do is look for matching pairs of fairies it has made a difference in the way my family functions.<\/p>\n<p>So get some games, have some fun and teach some lessons!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li2\"><i><\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Subscribe to our free weekly Jozikids\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>newsletter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0 for parents in Gauteng<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><i><\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Like us on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jozikids.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Facebook<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li2\"><i><\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>Follow us on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/jozikids?igshid=1n8cwedrewul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Instagram<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was never one of those parents who played games with my kids. Admittedly they were too small for anything more than snap and memory up until a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":11993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[866],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}