Teaching Children How To Play Games With Friends

It's not fun to bring your trading cards to school and see them thrown around.

On the contrary, a parent wants to help their child become the friend who shows respect for their friend’s possessions when they bring a card game to school.

A valuable lesson to teach a child that they will use many times in their youth and then later on in life is learning how to play card games, sports, and video games with friends.  It isn’t uncommon for a child to bring a deck of their trading cards to school and then see a few of their cards thrown across the classroom or playground by a friend as a joke.  Likewise, it isn’t uncommon in childhood to hang out with a friend on their gaming console and find they have one controller and aren’t interested in taking turns using it with you.  When it comes to sports, who remembers team captains calling out which players they wanted on the playground while making the last few picks feeling very much unwanted?

Playing games is a big part of a child’s life and adults certainly play card games, sports, and video games as well.  So, it is more than worthwhile for Christian parents and parents in general to teach children from a young age how to share a game console controller, for example.  Children also should be taught why to do so to help them independently develop empathy and interest in the needs of others. 

Parents want to help children learn to independently see why it is wrong to throw someone’s cards under a desk and why it isn't funny for the child who owns them.  On the contrary, a parent wants to help their child become the friend who shows respect for their friend’s possessions when they bring a card game to school.