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Video Game Group Night Building Social Skills of Children / Teen with Autism
During the years 2020 and 2021 the global Covid 19 pandemic upset in person meetings of essential support groups, like the UC Davis MIND Institute Social Skills where mid sized groups of children and teen with autism had a chance to come together to improve their skills at making friends and having two-sided interactive conversations. Some of the most successful online sessions were video game nig...[Read More]
Puzzles Games / Point and Click Games – Cooperative Plays for Parents and Kids
Puzzle games with stories are like a combination of interactive books / visual novels and investigative board games like Cluedo or Think Fun type puzzle games. Imagine Harry Potter books turned into games where Harry, Hermione and Ron are trying to find the puzzle pieces to make sense of the events happening to them, or Miss Marple/ Hercule Poirot piecing the puzzles together to reveal the truth a...[Read More]
Why is a Mother Writing about Video Games from a Parent’s Point of View?
As I’ve been reluctant to let video games enter our family realms (on consoles, tablets or phones on a regular basis), I have often asked myself why I feel the irresistible urge to document our experience of playing video games with our children, as a family game, as a coop sibling game, or in any other setting where children, pre-teens or tweens play games. Since the end of the year 2020 (w...[Read More]
Teach Your Monster to Read – the Award Winning Literacy Educational Video Game for Primary Students
Teach your Monster to Read is probably the most notable video game that has been truly embraced and recommended by British primary schools, including our local primary when my son attended his very first school year, called Reception (in the UK Reception class begins at the age of 4 – don’t be mistaken, it is no longer a nursery, instead proper alphabet, reading, phonics etc. works are...[Read More]
How our Family Gaming Story Began
After 9 months into the Great Lockdown year, in November 2020, we began our family gaming story – until then, we had had a mostly video game free life, gently surrounding our family free time with HUGE thorny bushes to protect them from ‘THE VIDEO GAMES’. I felt like a warrior, a mum amazon fighting against the pressure of growing screen times. What mother would want to nurture a...[Read More]