Saturday, August 1, 2009

To all the aunties who think card playing will result in children becoming drunken penny-less gamblers: think again! There is Math in it. There is logic, strategy, memory, discipline and of course, chance! Valuable lessons I would think. What do you think? Would you let your let's say 8 year old learn or play card games with friends?

5 comments:

  1. Hell yeah! I most definitely would teach my 8 year old how to play cards. Playing card games is really not that easy. Like you said, it does involve quite a lot of strategy and logic.

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  2. I think I would too! In fact I got my ass royally kicked by two little kiddoos when I took up the challenge and played cards with them few months back :P

    I would just keep the money part disconnected from the card games, that's all :)

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  3. Hye, we spent our summer vacation playing cards and eating mangoes. Not a bleddy summer camp between the lot of us. Works just fine. Go for it!

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  4. Thanks for the support y'all. :) This discussion came out of teaching a bunch of cranky kids an easy memory card game at a get-together thingy..

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  5. Ofcourse! How else would you mooch off ice cream money from your grandpa?

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