USING BOARD GAMES TO LEARN
Mother, Baby & Child|December 2023
Boosting your child’s brain development and life skills while having fun sounds too good to be true. Here we look at how board games can do just that!
USING BOARD GAMES TO LEARN

Board games have been around in one form or another for thousands of years. While they offer an entertaining way to disconnect from the stresses of daily life, they also bring a whole host of educational benefits for kids. Next time you feel like you’re taking the easy way out by playing a board game with your child instead of something more obviously educational, don’t worry. Playing board games will help your little one’s brain development in lots of different ways. So pull out the family favourite game for one of the best combinations of fun and learning there is!

6 WAYS BOARD GAMES CAN BOOST YOUR CHILD’S MIND

Let’s run through the variety of ways that playing board games can help your child’s development. 

Attention span

Poor attention span and the lack of an ability to focus is one of the biggest issues affecting young people today. So much of what children interact with on a daily basis is short and rapid bursts of entertainment. TikTok and YouTube shorts are the two primary examples. Board games are almost the exact opposite of these forms of entertainment.

Board games demand focus to succeed and they tend to move quite slowly. At first, this can be a struggle for children (and adults!) but it’s important to persevere and leave digital distractions, such as phones or TV, off or in another room. The slow, analogue nature of board games will train your little one to focus for longer periods of time and this will stand to them in virtually every part of their education and lif

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