Board games can do more than keep your child busy at school or home. They can also help with learning. Here are some great board games that help build reading, math, and fine motor skills. We must bear in mind that it always depends on the age of our children, and that is why many games make it easier for us to identify if the game is suitable for our children to play.

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Regarding board games, we can find multiple categories. Board games are generally grouped into categories, according to special characteristics that distinguish them. The most common are: dice games, tile games, card games, role-playing games, traditional board games, contemporary board games, themed games, miniature games, among other categories. And today we are going to explain a little about each one.

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The good thing about board games is that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to buy that board game for boys and girls that appears on television. There are a lot of games that you can create versions of with materials that you have at home with the help of your sons or daughters. Board games for boys and girls help in their education and development. The benefits they provide are multiple, including:

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When we talk about the importance of board games, possibly the first thing that comes to mind is the benefits that we have when playing them, as these awaken our logic and our intelligence, but from my point of view and I hope they allow me to convey them , the importance of board games goes beyond, not only from what they contribute in modernity, but what they contributed at the time they were created, many board games were created to entertain, but others were designed as a strategy of war, as teaching methods or simply as strategies to maintain crops. Its importance goes beyond what they offer us today, that is why I want to share a story, the story of the birth of chess, it seems to me something curious how a person managed to create one of the most important traditional and classic games in the world. story and I feel like it’s a story that we should all know.

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We could say that board games are formally those that require support or a table to be played and that it is generally done by a group of people, this is what makes them board games, those hobbies that allow us to share through a dynamic with someone else like family and friends through healthy competition such as these games provide.
These games, although they have been marked by chance, also require strategies and reasoning. Board games are not always limited to not doing physical activity, sometimes a punishment or reward may require travel.
Board games are a fun hobby to practice with family and friends, for this it is important to take into account before starting the game that everyone understands the rules, as well as taking into account the ages not to discriminate but to define what is the appropriate game and responsive to abilities.

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In Poland, the fulfillment of the rights of the child is relatively satisfactory. However, the country still has to work on the elimination of some principles and practices that contravene the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

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The ‘nunchi’, in a literal translation into Spanish would be «measure of the eye», is the Korean art of feeling what happens to other people or goes through their heads. Empathy is considered one of the greatest virtues in our day, but it has nothing to do with this Korean value, one of the basic pillars of a child’s education in South Korea. To do this, speed and emotional acuity is essential, since the sooner the mood of another person is identified, the more successful it is possible to respond or interact.

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In Israel one of the pillars in raising children is education, the child is not obliged to observe the mitzvot until he becomes an adult. However, there is the mitzvah of rabbinic origin, called «jinuch», which says that parents should educate their children to get used to doing the mitzvot and to avoid doing everything that the Torah prohibits. Traditionally, children as young as three are taught to recite the blessings of various foods and some basic prayers. That is the time when the boy begins to cover his head and wear tzitzit, and around that age, girls begin to light the Shabbat candles.

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In Sweden, it is an everyday image that could become more common and extensive, given the country’s new regulations on paternity leave. In many nations, the idea of ​​men taking time off from work to be with a newborn has yet to take hold. However, Sweden, which has been promoting paternity leave since 1974, is offering new incentives for dads to stay at home for up to three months. Which is good since many countries do not recognize the role of a parent in parenting, paternity leave is a reality and even more so when you are a single parent and you are not given paternity leave, it is good that Sweden has taken a step forward in supporting and nurturing children.

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Switzerland remains a relatively conservative country when it comes to childcare, with mothers often taking on most of the responsibilities for childcare. However, there are more and more women who combine family and work life. In Switzerland, an employed woman is entitled to 14 weeks of maternity leave from the moment of delivery, with 80% of her salary. However, many employers offer more generous terms. In Switzerland, paternity leave is not regulated at national level, although there are many companies that offer this option to their employees.

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