The Board Game Family: Reclaim Your Children From The Screen is a fantastic 'how-to' for parents from The Dark Imp's Ellie Dix. Ideal for anyone who wants to get their kids back into the living room, away from screens and back into family life together.
I did a full review of The Board Game Family back in September and I really felt that the author, Ellie Dix. is on my wavelength. She enthuses about the same games we love here, and has a great strategy for parents to get back in tune with their kids - even if you have never played a board game before.
Just like books, movies or TV Series, there is a board game for anyone. There will be lots that you will love, and you may not have heard of them. Ellie includes a big selection at the back, and recommendations for different game abilities and levels of keenness at the start.... she mentions a lot of games we've reviewed.
The Board Game Family (Reclaim Your Children From The Screen) is written by Ellie Dix and published by Crown House Publishing. Glossy paperback with 208 pages and available now from all good book shops, priced £12.99rrp. Affiliate Amazon link below:
I know how important that time together playing games has been for our family, and how many memories we've made, so I'm delighted to have teamed up with Ellie and Crown House Publishing to be able to offer 3 of you a copy of The Board Game Family as a Christmas Present.
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Christmas Giveaway: The Board Game Family by Ellie Dix
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I enjoy Scrabble at the moment and enjoyed Monopoly as a child.
ReplyDeleteI like Scrabble now, when I was little my favourite board game was Mousetrap
ReplyDeleteI always loved quiz games like Trivial Pursuit when I was a child, the current favourite in our house is Labyrinth
ReplyDeleteMonopoly, both now and when I was younger.
ReplyDeleteI remember having Totopoly as a child, what a good idea to teach your children to gamble. Scrabble now.
ReplyDeletewe love scrabble
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I loved snakes and ladders. Now we love cluedo and monopoly x
ReplyDeleteI always liked Snakes and ladders
ReplyDeletemonopoly and i still love to play it now
ReplyDeleteAs a family we enjoy Monopoly, but as a child I loved Cluedo because I was able to take in all of the information analytically and win!
ReplyDeleteAs a child I loved Ludo. Now I love Can't Stop and Takenoko!
ReplyDeleteMonopoly - we still do now- its great way to spend time as a family
ReplyDeleteI love playing Payday now with the family but when I was little my favorite game was Ludo
ReplyDeleteI loved monopoly and cluedo as a child. I still like monopoly but dont have the time. Now quite like scrabble
ReplyDeleteI loved playing Game of life growing up - I introduced to the kids and they like it but I suddenly realised how grown up the terms were 'shares' and 'taxes'.
ReplyDeleteWe love playing Museum Rush now, it is a great game of where you are a thief in a museum!
I love puzzle and strategy games now but as a child it was Monopoly or word games like scrabble and crossword
ReplyDeleteI loved to play Monopoly with the family and play it with my children now too
ReplyDeletewe love monopoly x
ReplyDeleteElaine Skye Monopoly as a child nowadays I love to play Guess Who with my grandchildren
ReplyDeleteI love playing the Logo game now, and I used to love playing Heroquest!
ReplyDeleteWe played a lot of card games whe i was little and still enjoy card games the best now
ReplyDeleteHas to be scrabble i play it all the time and as a child i enjoyed playing connect four
ReplyDeleteI used to love playing snakes and ladders as achild and now play Monopoly regularly.
ReplyDeleteI love Trivial Pursuit now and when I was younger I loved Frustration xx
ReplyDeletewe love playing scrabble with the kids as I have great memories of playing it with my family when I was young! xx
ReplyDeleteI like 5 second rule now and I liked yahtzee as a child and still do
ReplyDeleteI always like pay day as a kid now i enjoy most of them probably risk is my favourite x
ReplyDeleteWe like Quirkle as a family. I loved guess who as a kid
ReplyDeleteLoved the game Trouble when I was younger, now its all about Game of Life!
ReplyDeleteI have always loved monopoly and now lo e playing with my children x
ReplyDeleteI loved monopoly when i was younger, still love it now, and cludo!
ReplyDeleteI used to love when i was younger a board game called 'Escape From Colditz', now it's just Monopoly.
ReplyDeleteI made the mistake of buying Twister, so it seems that its the new family favourite, although my back wont agree, when i was a child Mousetrap was my favourite game to play
ReplyDeleteMy favourite board game is Frustration. I loved beating my sister as a child and now as a naughty mummy love beating my daughter!
ReplyDeleteI haven’t played a board game for years, but I think my children are getting to an age where they will understand it, so maybe this Christmas is the one to bring out a new tradition. We played a sock game last year with the nephews, items in a sock and you had a limited time to find the item. Can’t remember what it was called. I always loved Go For Broke as a kid!
ReplyDeletewe love playing Ludo when I was little we loved a family game of Cluedo
ReplyDeleteI love playing Labyrinth and Monopoly now and always loved Labyrinth as a kid.
ReplyDeleteI love playing monopoly now but I used to love playing hungry hippos- geri Gregg
ReplyDeleteYahtzee and still Yahtzee its great that my kids love the same game i played growing up
ReplyDeleteSnakes and ladders, I now play it with my grandchildren
ReplyDeleteloved the game of life as a child, still do now!
ReplyDeleteI loved card games as a kid, and love them now as well as board games
ReplyDeleteIt would have been Snakes and Ladders but now it has be Monopoly.
ReplyDeleteSnakes and Ladders was my favourite as a child and still is. It is a game of chance so the whole family can join in and play on an equal footing.
ReplyDeleteI use to love scrabble but now i prefer Cluedo
ReplyDeleteI loved guess who when I was little now I like themed trivial pursuit best.
ReplyDeleteWe love playing different versions of Monopoly.
ReplyDeleteIt was 'Escape From Colditz' as a kid - and still is now!
ReplyDeleteWe love to play game of life
ReplyDeleteWe all love playing monopoly is really fun for all the family.
ReplyDeleteWe had a game called Going for a Song which was based on the TV antiques programme which we loved. Now we play monopoly as a family.
ReplyDeleteWe love playing monopoly, loved playing frustration
ReplyDeleteWe really love Cluedo.
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ReplyDeleteWe love to play Monopoly Empire and we also love Scrabble
ReplyDeleteWe enjoy playing Ludo
ReplyDeleteLabyrinth & love playing dracula board game when i was little.
ReplyDeleteWe like playing Cluedo when younger and Connect 4 is popular in our family
ReplyDeleteI love Boggle and Scattergories as a child we played Monopoly throughout the school holidays
ReplyDeleteAs a child (and an adult) I love Monopoly - we have lots of versions
ReplyDeleteI love the game of life now but loved monopoly when I was younger. They are similar though.
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