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Hace ya algunos años, le compré a mi hijo mayor el juego de mesa llamado "Arma Palabras", pero como siempre le ganaba, dejó de ponerle interés y quedó guardado entre sus cosas... hasta el día de ayer... Como no tocaba trabajar en el turno de la tarde, mi hijo menor me propuso que jugáramos UNO, y luego de unas cuantas partidas, preguntó si podíamos hacerlo con el juego que su hermano dejó como objeto decorativo en la mesa de su computadora, que en Argentina lo llaman Tutti Frutti, y pues nos dispusimos a ello.

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Le expliqué la dinámica que yo conocía del juego, aunque en las explicaciones de este, el nivel era mucho más alto. Tiene dos mazos de cartas, uno con el abecedario y el otro con las categorías, las cuales tienen dos por cada carta, así que se deben sacar dos cartas de esta y una del otro mazo.

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Como él es principiante, le dije que lo jugáramos como lo hacía yo en mi niñez, colocando 4 categorías sencillas para darle mejores oportunidades de llenarlas. Elegimos nombre, animal, fruta/verdura y cosa, y con esto definido empezamos a jugar.

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Él era el encargado de seleccionar la letra, y aunque le daba oportunidades, no escribía casi nada, pues de los nervios o la emoción, se quedaba en blanco en cada tanda.

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Su hermano mayor nos miraba, y criticaba de vez en cuando, pero no se animaba a participar. Inclusive sus caras de sorpresa o desaprobación fueron parte de las partidas. Cuando tocó la letra A, el escuchar a su hermanito lamentarse por no saber un nombre por esa letra lo hizo reaccionar, ya que su nombre empieza por A, pero a Fabrizzio no se le ocurrió!

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Lo mismo ocurrió con la letra M, no colocó ningún nombre, y el mío empieza con esa letra, casi lo desheredo por esa razón, pero luego recordé que estábamos jugando, y se me pasó.

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Por cada respuesta correcta sumábamos 10 puntos, y si coincidíamos, entonces se dividía en 5 para cada uno. Luego de dos tandas de 6 palabras cada uno, y ante la burla constante de mi hijo Abraham, lo convencimos de hacer una ronda más entre los tres.

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Solo por molestar a su hermano, decía que nos iba a ganar sin mucho esfuerzo, pero ante tal arranque de soberbia, empecé a jugar en modo competitivo, terminando en tiempo record de llenar todas las casillas ante su mirada atónita por mi destreza y rapidez mental.

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Mi pequeño en lugar de frustrarse, disfrutaba de mis victorias, solo por ver la cara de su hermano, quien entre molesto y risueño me decía que no estábamos en "speed-run", aunque su desempeño no fue tan malo, ya que siempre quedaba con solo una casilla pendiente. En su caso era soltura al escribir, y no por falta de ideas...

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Esta tercera ronda también la gané yo. Si, no soy de las madres que los deja ganar, pues ¿cómo les enseño a manejar la frustración? al contrario, quiero que me vean como el jugador al que deben derrotar, y así hacerlos subir de nivel. Al final de la noche, tuvimos una velada de juegos en familia, con risas, bromas, palabras inventadas solo para que coincidieran, tales como el "elón" para frutas con E.

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Lo mejor, fue que mi hijo mayor que siempre prefiere los videojuegos, aceptara compartir con nosotros, y experimentar que jugar en la vida real puede ser también muy divertido. https://images.ecency.com/DQmadG2aMuYuqU82cCa9NpTsW9tiKKE5uJ8N91Tw6SKatLc/image.png Some years ago, I bought my eldest son the board game called “Arma Palabras”, but as I always beat him, he stopped playing it and it remained stored among his things... until yesterday.... Since it was not time to work in the afternoon shift, my youngest son suggested that we play UNO, and after a few games, he asked if we could do it with the game that his brother left as a decorative object on his computer table, which in Argentina is called Tutti Frutti, and so we set out to do it.

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I explained to him the dynamics that I knew of the game, although in the explanations of this one, the level was much higher. He has two decks of cards, one with the alphabet and the other with the categories, which have two cards for each card, so you have to draw two cards from this one and one from the other deck.

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Since he is a beginner, I told him to play it like I did in my childhood, placing 4 simple categories to give him better chances to fill them. We chose name, animal, fruit/vegetable and thing, and with this defined we started playing.

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He was in charge of selecting the letter, and although I gave him opportunities, he almost didn't write anything, because of nerves or excitement, he would draw a blank in each batch.

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His older brother would look at us and criticize from time to time, but he didn't dare to participate. Even his faces of surprise or disapproval were part of the games. When he touched the letter A, hearing his little brother lamenting for not knowing a name for that letter made him react, since his name starts with A, but Fabrizzio didn't think of it!

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The same thing happened with the letter M, he didn't put any name, and mine starts with that letter, I almost disowned him for that reason, but then I remembered that we were playing, and it slipped my mind.

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For each correct answer we scored 10 points, and if we matched, then it was divided into 5 for each of us. After two rounds of 6 words each, and in the face of my son Abraham's constant teasing, we convinced him to do one more round between the three of us.

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Just to annoy his brother, he said he was going to beat us without much effort, but before such a burst of arrogance, I started to play in competitive mode, finishing in record time to fill all the squares before his astonished look for my dexterity and mental speed.

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My little boy instead of getting frustrated, enjoyed my victories, just to see the face of his brother, who between annoyed and laughing told me that we were not in “speed-run”, although his performance was not so bad, since he was always left with only one pending square. In his case, it was a matter of writing fluency, and not for lack of ideas...

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This third round was also won by me. Yes, I am not one of those mothers who let them win, because how do I teach them to handle frustration? on the contrary, I want them to see me as the player they should beat, and thus make them level up. At the end of the night, we had an evening of family games, with laughter, jokes, words invented just to match, such as “elon” for fruit with E.

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The best part was that my oldest son, who always prefers video games, agreed to share with us, and experience that playing in real life can also be a lot of fun. *** Foto/Photo by: @mamaemigrante Edición/Edited by @mamaemigrante using canva Translated and formatted with [Deepl](https://www.deepl.com/es/translator)

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