So the other day I was playing around with a deck of cards and Jovin asked if he could play with me. So I decided to teach him how to play Go Fish. I remember playing Go Fish with my Mom and Grandparents. The antisipation of asking for the last card in a match up and getting if from them was so monumental... I was getting excited to teach Jovin this game so he could experience this too.
So I started off explaining the game and how to ask for cards and if I don't have what he asked for I will tell him to "go fish" and he is to take the top card off the deck. Then it would be my turn to ask him and so on...
As we start playing the game Jovin is starting to understand how it works... but then he realized that being told to "go fish" meant that I did not have the card he was looking for and he needed to pull from the deck and get some random card that he really didn't want. So then it started to escalate to the point when I would tell him to "go fish" he would put his head in his hands or on the floor and cry and tell me to stop telling him to "go fish". The crying would go on for a few minutes and he didn't want to continue to play.
I had to keep persuading him to continue to play and next time ask me for a different card. When he did finally get a match of four cards he was thrilled and wanted the game to be over.
When it was my turn I asked him for his 6's and he started to cry again and said that he didn't want to give them to me cause he wanted to get all the 6's. I had to explain that if I asked for a type of card that he had he needed to give them to me so that the game would be fair. Obviously he didn't like that idea.
Needless to say I stayed with it and we did finish the game. Although it was the LONGEST game of Go Fish that I have EVER played.
Oh, and now if I suggest to play it he tells me, "okay Momma, but don't tell me to go fish anymore..."
3 comments:
That's so cute! Ben was the same way when he first started playing and now it's one of his favorite games. (He even played it last night with Jake.)
That's a funny story. Gavin would never play....he has to WIN at everything he does or he freaks out. Then again maybe I should try it out. He's got to learn he's not always going to be the winner sometime right.
Too funny! I'm impressed that you actually finished the game! I think I would have given up after a few of the crying episodes! I don't know many three year-olds who understand that they don't always win.
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