It's Friday Night...Watta YOU Doin'?

We have tried to institute an ongoing game night. Usually it's Friday's or Saturdays, depending on the status of the Star Wars Clone Wars Series, because if it's a repeat, well bring on the games. Favorites of the past inlcude War, Don't Wake Daddy, Hi Ho Cherry O, and CandyLand. Nothing that includes any amount of strategy whatsoever. Sometimes we'll even throw in a little Wii bowling.

John however, has different ideas on what he now wants to start playing with the kids. Yes, he has begun strategizing with them by playing Monopoly.

Maddie is usually on 'daddy's team' but here she is playing banker. She likes to sort the monies into their right colored slot.
Nathan plays like I do. Buy everything right away and then lose your money.

This was a particularly intense round.

Jack lost a property. And his father actually took it.

I learned long, long, long ago never to play monopoly with a guy who rounds in millions (of dollars) for a living, and suggested we play MY favorite game with the kids which happens to be Scrabble. A nice fun, educational word game. John's response was (do not laugh), "Scrabble? First of all, Scrabble is stupid. Second of all, it's really not age appropriate for these kids.".

And now he has the kids convinced that Scrabble and any other word game is not worth their time. Nate walks around chanting, "I HATE word games. I only like money games."

The battle is lost, but the war is not yet over.