February 2, 2005

  • Speaking of good ideas, here's one I wished I'd thought of when going to collect Dmitry....taking along a game of Memory.


    Brianna, who I now keep for a bit on Mondays, is addicted to it, so I bought a Disney Memory game for us to play.  On MLK day Dmitry was home from school and he joined us for a rousing game . . . turns out he'd never played before.


    He loved it. 


    And handily beat both Brianna and me.


    Now he and I play by ourselves, though he is anxious that Charles not see him play, fearing (regrettably, not an unfounded fear) to become An Object of Derision.  Still, play we do, and the pest of a boy usually beats me.  Usually.  Not always.


    If anyone reading this is waiting to go to Russia to collect their children, take my advice and pack a $5 memory game.  The directions are nearly intuitive and it's lots of fun. 

Comments (4)

  • Memory is another example of the cultural dumbing down we're undergoing. I still have my set from my childhood -- the pictures on the cards (108 of them, I believe) are of interesting and odd things, from various kinds of flowers to walnuts to works of art, animals, you name it. They are all either photographs of real objects or representations of fine artwork.

    Nowadays, you have the choice between the Disney version and the regular version -- and the regular version has cartoonish, juvenile drawings on the cards. Why do they think kids can't appreciate an interesting picture of something real anymore?

    BTW, it was my absolute favorite game when I was kid. The neat thing about it is you can pull out 5 or 10 pairs of cards and play it with a 3 year old, or use the whole set and it's fun even for an adult (who likes that sort of thing, at any rate), or use any number in between.

  • Tell you what, Jane, Dmitry is totally with you on that, having asked for an "adult" memory game.

    No, he didn't mean that sort of "adult"...just not "baby stuff," as he considers Disney to be.

    I'm thinking of trying to create a set with my printer.

  • I never had "Memory" growing up.  We just used a deck of cards and played "Pairs", (only I thought we were playing pears and used to ask Mom why we couldn't play apples.)

  • [respectfully] Now, that's just smart, that is.  Never thought of using playing cards, of which we have several.  Good idea!

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