Review of Gifts - Beat the Parents

(I figured out how to put in a picture for this one.)

Beat the Parents was one of my gifts that I received.

There are questions that kids ask parents and questions that parents ask kids. You move across the board in opposite directions. If you land on the same space, you can move your opponent back. (Instead of Battle of the Sexes, it's parents versus kids.) The box says ages 6+.

We've played this game a couple of times. It's not a good fit for our family. Our kids trounce on on the parents. When our kids can win the game and we are virtually at the starting line, it's not a ton of fun.

Why is it not a good fit for our family? The parents in our family are not familiar with all of the teeny-bopper shows on Disney Channel, we do not know much about Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and our repertoire of pre-teen music is limited. In our opinion, the kids questions are pretty easy general trivia and the parents questions are pop culture for children and pre-teens from the 2000's. With our family, it makes for a very one-sided game. The kids are good generalists on things like primary colors, names of continents, identification of mammal, reptile or fish, etc. The parents don't watch the Disney Channel or listen to teeny-bopper music.

This game will be for sale or donated soon. If your family is somewhat like ours, I do not recommend this game. Let me know if you would like to buy it from us!

Reviews of gifts - Rory's Story Cubes

We received Rory's Story Cubes as a gift this year. We already had these, but I wanted to sing their praises and will be happily re-gifting these!

The story cubes are a set of 9 six-sides cubes with different pictures.

You roll the cubes and then tell a story based on what you see. There aren't really rules, the cubes are just a "help" in being imaginative.

We've played where the cubes are rolled and each person works on a story one cube at a time alternating with each cube. We've also played where a person has to tell part of the story with everything that they rolled and the next person rolls all of the cubes again and continues with the story.

Most recently, we had a Benjamin Franklin themed time with the cubes. Each one of us rolled and we had to talk about Benjamin Franklin based on the cubes that came up. (I knew that there was a picture of a key and a picture of a lightening bolt so those were easy. A turtle kept coming up during this session and we were concluding that he did not study sea turtles, but you never know.)

I would like to incorporate these more into my homeschool writing assignments. We struggle with writing, and I hope that we can maybe use the story cubes to get some more creative writing done!

They come in a fun package too which is always good for containment and transport! The box says 8+ for ages. Adults can even have fun with this one!

If you are in Rolla, these were at Rolla Toy and Book and here's the link to Amazon. (I do not get any commission from this link.)