• May. 6, 2006
Candyland Crisis
The joys of motherhood, let me tell you! Last night my husband and I decided to tie some strings with our girls by playing a quick game of Candyland before bed.
Let me explain a bit about our almost four year old daughter. She is a pretty smart little cookie. She knows her colors and is starting to count pretty well, so this game is easy for her to understand. Our two year old daughter needs a bit of help. Usually I end up playing her turn for her.
Four year old daughter, LOVES the picture blocks in the game, especially the Ice Cream Princess. What little girl wouldn’t? So daughter’s main objective is acquiring those lovely little picture cards.
Ok. Back to the game: Four year old daughter gets the gum drop card, is elated, and moves ahead of everyone else. We are all having fun and enjoying ourselves until two year old daughter gets the Ice Cream Princess Card, which puts her towards the end of the game. Four year old IS NOT HAPPY. She just cannot understand why Two year old gets the Ice Cream card! Both my husband and I are trying to reprimand, calm her, and try not to laugh at the same time. I know we are wicked!
Two year old is just still enjoying herself.
Pretty soon, on my turn I obtain the peanut card. A whole other round of tears from four year old about not getting the Ice Cream card; we appease her by saying she can look at the card while we play.
Four year old soon gets the lollipop card, moving her ahead of me. This makes her happy until…
Two year old daughter wins. This is the very first time four year old daughter looses a game, and she actually understands that she has lost. Let me say she wasn’t happy! I tell her that it is a “just a game” and we should be happy that two year old one the game. I then tell her we can finish playing with just her, Daddy and I.
My husband turns lands him the candy cane card, and he has to go back almost to the beginning. Four year old daughter gets the ginger bread man card, which is just a couple of blocks from the start. She’s happy that she got another picture card…. Until, she sees on my turn that I am moving towards the candy castle and she just went away from it.
By this time, it was way past her bed time, and my husband and I are trying to act stern and not crack up at the same time to her reactions. Tears were just streaming down her face, and she was blubbering about the “Ice Cream Card” her sister winning, and other things we could not understand. We tell her that we cannot finish the game when she is acting like that. My husband promptly put the game away, and the girls to bed.
So, I suppose that daughter has a competitor’s spirit about her. What am I going to do? I remember being her age and caring less if I lost or not. I did enjoy winning, but I don’t remember getting that upset. Except maybe once when we were playing Monopoly. I was loosing BIG time, and I had only six dollars left to my name. My sister’s boyfriend (who I didn’t like) was provoking me about it: I believe I acted worse than my four year old did at her first loss of CandyLand.
Comments
• May. 21, 2006
Your evening sounded fun!
Posted by ButterFly4Him
Sometimes it's hard to teach those little one's about the "rules." LOL!! So, how did the menu planning thing work out?
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Have a great day! :)
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• Jun. 29, 2006
Hi!
Posted by CarpeBanana
I am visiting random blogs and couldn't pass this one up as Candyland is my most hated game... in fact, I even mention it in an entry: http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CarpeBanana/143372/
One suggestion: my children did better when they were young with games that depended more on actual skill than on luck, like the cards. When we do play Candyland, we remove the picture cards after each one has been played once, that way the game does not go on endlessly.
Enjoy your little ones!
