Brain games
The olders love puzzles. Any kind of puzzle will get them going for a good half-hour -- just enough time for Mom to take care of whatever needs doing around the house without (much) interruption.
One of their favorite games these days is this one called RUSH HOUR by Think Fun. The game comes with a bunch of plastic cars, a "road" and 40 puzzles for the kids to solve, the objective being to get out of a mythical traffic jam. They love it.
Personally, this sort of thing drives me nuts, so I've decided that they must have gotten this trait for problem solving their Dad. I'd much rather deal with "real" problems like how to translate grams to cups so my crepe come out right.
I received that game at TED this year. It looked interesting...now I'm inspired to pull it out and try it.
Posted by: pedraum | May 17, 2007 at 11:34 PM
My kids received, or shall I say took that game from my inlaws and love it. I saw a display with that and other games at Diddams in Palo Alto the other day.
Posted by: Pamela | May 28, 2007 at 08:27 PM