KIDS • GAMES • 6-12 YEARS
The Peace Game
mindfulness in family
By SPREADABLE MAGAZINE
While war games proliferate in toy stores, The Peace Game makes you a different proposal: turn off cell phones, express emotions, sing, draw, dance, cook, recycle, dream. A kit to live family experiences.
How to play?
The kit comes with 14 cards to play , which you can distribute in 14 days. The objective of each game is to promote creativity and carry out collaborative activities. Some are calmer, like painting a mandala, and others are much more dynamic, like making music with your body. Each activity is complemented by a mindfulness card that the participants can do to bring the game to a close.
What is mindfulness?
Mindfulness means "full attention". It is a relaxation practice to focus on the "here and now". In The Peace Game You will find 14 mindfulness cards that guide you in various techniques to acquire these breathing, relaxation and mindfulness tools.
Who wins?
Everyone. Unlike competitive games, The Peace Game is collaborative. It can be played over and over again, strengthening emotional ties . Now, let's tell the truth: the moms and/or dads win, because now they have an "ace up their sleeve" for when they have to stay home, and 14 days of indoor activities solved.
Why play as a family?
According to educational psychologist Marcela Cetti, Mg. in Learning (Flacso) "Playing as a family is important, because it suggests exchange spaces where the joy for what has been done and achieved impregnates those who have participated and those who see the other enjoying themselves with positive emotions, in this sense, everyone benefits."
Inside the box...
your inner climate
In a Munro house, a family receives the game. They open the box and find a challenging proposal inside: leave your cell phone in airplane mode on box. Just a moment...
Then Matilda, age 8, takes the first experience card and reads it aloud. "Música de entrecasa" proposes make music with the things you have in the kitchen. Yes, with packages of noodles and rice, with spoons and ladles, with pot lids...
When they finished the activity, they took one of the mindfulness exercise cards to relax: #climaininterior. how are you your indoor climate? Rainy? Sunny?
"The emotions thing, I loved it. I felt like a rainbow , like a storm, a sunny day, all together. I loved playing with the elements of the kitchen", Matilda tells us after her experience.
Thus, Matilda shared a rainy quarantine afternoon with her mother, Marlene, and Guillermo.
"The Game of Peace gives you elements to put words to emotions . That, with a boy or girl, is an invaluable resource ," concludes Marlene.
"Mom, ask your cell phone how it was inside the box!" , ironizes Matilda, at the end.
hurricane afternoons
Instead, Benicio de San Telmo, 7 years old, was a "hurricane" all afternoon. His father searched among the mindfulness cards for an activity that has to do with tension and relaxation: he chose the one titled #bodyscaner. How are our muscles? Contracted or relaxed? After doing the exercise, the interior climate of Benicio changed from "hurricane" to "sunny with some clouds" . And he began to read a book.
animal round
In Nuñez, 9-year-old Bruno and his mother, Karina, chose the "Round of Animals" game card. Karina tells us: "We take advantage of the evening, which is when we cook, chat or play games. Bruno started up and chose a cat. I, a little bird. Then, we continue giving connotation to the sounds, as if with a 'meow-meow' we were asking: 'how did it go?' and with a 'peep' and a smile the answer was: 'fine!' It was a fun experience, we realized how connected we were . With the look and expressions we could communicate."
After playing, they relaxed with a mindfulness exercise: #consciousbreathing. "We read the card and looked for the stuffed animals to do the slogan. We lay down on the floor, breathed belly up and did the activity. We stretched and, without looking for it, we shook hands. We started laughing... It was a different experience, relaxing from a game, with its stuffed animals, took me to me childhood for a while", says Karina.
gift time
In the words of the educational psychologist Marcela Cetti, children enjoy being with a significant other, especially if that "being" is without technological devices. This is experienced as a "gift time", it allows the day to be different, not only for the boy or girl, but also for adults.
“ Spend time without devices ”, continues Marcela Cetti, “is a challenge that allows us to create new play spaces. To do this, The Peace Game invites us to share a moment where necessary skills for learning are developed in a playful way, including: being attentive, responding to a slogan and staying on a task for a while.
mindfulness
In countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia or England, mindfulness is being incorporated into school curricula due to its health benefits.
It helps students learn to regulate their emotions, have tools to reduce anxiety, improve their ability to concentrate and, above all, have empathy towards others.
In schools, the boys manage to be calmer and more attentive. At home, they are calmer, safer and sleep better . And in all walks of life, they have more tools to register their own emotions and put them into words.
This "mindfulness" oriented meditation practice that places us in the "here and now" can be practiced by spending just a few minutes a day, to become part of everyday life on different levels.
The mindfulness cards that come in the Peace Game kit are linked to gaming activities. For example, first you play talking like animals (game), and then you practice be serene and attentive like a frog (mindfulness).
In addition, those 14 cards can invite adults to practice a little mindfulness on a daily basis .
For example, in Barracas, Débora, 38 years, she decided to leave the cards in the kitchen, to keep them close at hand and do some mindfulness exercise every day. He tells us about the experience of the little card entitled #conscious flavor.
"I paid full attention to my breakfast. To the bread, to the jam... I began to feel another taste in the bread. By paying full attention, the intensity of each flavor, each texture changed. Then I was hooked on the enjoy every bite," he says.
The Game of Peace is already a trend among adults and children, do you want to play?
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