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Helps to be good at math to play.

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1) How about “Life”? It isn’t perfect, but they’ve redone it, and now you get money credit for life experiences.

2) A better game than Monopoly (both as a game, and coming from an academic economist who thinks that Monopoly teaches the wrong things) is an out of print game called Rail Baron. You can find used copies on E-Bay, and there is a downloadable version as well. The idea is the same that you try to bankrupt your opponents, but you do it by putting together a network of railroads that your opponent can’t avoid having to use (and pay for) because it connects to places they need to go.

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You talked about avoiding ramp up time? could you explain that as well

Kind regards

I wish I could tell you that Lani and I planned these postings – but that would suggest far more organization than we even come close to having. Nevertheless, Lani penned a great post inspired by a Lifehacker find of Wendy Piersall’s Educational …

I can say I feel rather ‘Meh.” about what you say. The presentation you say has ’scary facts” wasn’t written by us, it was written by a teacher who was expressing his own concerns about our school system.

EXACTLY. The purpose of education is NOT to teach real-life business and entrepreneurial skills that will be obsolete in 20 years. Grade school, middle school, and high school, even college do not teach you those things, by DESIGN. They teach you how to learn, so that you will be prepared for those jobs that we parents have not even dreamed.

Actually, education allows you to critically think about a lot of those “scary” facts presented in the video.

A lot of these games are lots of fun. But don’t believe the dream that they will make your child gain entrepreneurial spirit or responsibility. C’mon. If you want them to learn about real life, you use real life to teach. Things like taking care of real people and pets, handling the real allowance, etc.

I have nothing against “educational” toys, but please don’t leave your child unattended at the computer and think that many precious lessons will be learned in your absence.

Teaching money and finances to children can be tricky. My two year old currently thinks “Buy more” and “Buy new one” are the best solutions to a variety of problems. My favorite discussion with her on the subject went like this:

Me: “Don’t push …

Here’s a link for the original Tycoon game:
http://www.virtualapple.org/tycoonddisk.html
One for Lemonade Stand:
http://www.virtualapple.org/lemonadestanddisk.html

They also have NumberMunchers and Oregon trail, along with some other educational games.

Play on!

I love playing 101 and 202, and I’ll play CF for Kids when they’re with me. I’ve started gradually shifting my son (my 8 year old) to CF 101, and he’s learning the difference between GOOD investements and BAD ones.