Friendship, cooperation, and kindness are important characteristics we’ve always tried to instill in our children.  Now more than ever, it’s important for our family to focus on good character traits as we just welcomed three foster daughters into our home a couple weeks ago.  While we don’t know how long they will be with us, throwing an additional 8, 4, and 4 month old into the crazy mix of five kiddos (ages 2-11) that we already had is definitely challenging but also rewarding and fun.  There is one company that has always offered amazing cooperation games as well as learning products and fun items.  So with our crazy new adventure under way, I turned to Peaceable Kingdom for some help and they sent me some great new releases for this review.

Friends and Neighbors ~ The Helping Game

While we weren’t entirely sure what to expect when welcoming foster children, many of the things we’ve experienced is to be expected when kids have been pulled from an unfit home, yet the only home they’ve ever known.  They are experiencing so many emotions that young children just shouldn’t have to go through.  It’s a scary time for them.  Their world has been turned upside down and they are worried, scared, feeling insecure, uncertain about what each day may hold, and struggling with feelings of enjoying their new surroundings but knowing that their parents aren’t there with them. All of this can be very difficult to vocalize and understand for them.

So when I saw this new Friends and Neighbors ~ The Helping Game, I was excited to bring it home and utilize it with all of our (foster and biological) children.  This cooperative social emotional game helps children to develop empathy and compassion through play.  Kids learn to recognize and name different emotions as they work with their friends and neighbors to match tokens with someone in need.

This fun twist to a matching game is a great way encourage children to be on the lookout for others.  They work on recognizing feelings in others, which in turn, helps them to develop a better understanding of their own too. Included with the game are 14 game tokens that the kids take turns grabbing out.

But when no match is made, the kids have to place a token onto the stop sign.  If the stop sign is filled before the kids have helped all of their neighbors and friends, the game is over.

But if they get all the matches complete, they win!  I love that feelings and kindness recognition are rolled into a fun cooperative game where players are working together.  Geared for ages 3 and up, each game only takes about 10 minutes for play.

Final Thoughts:  Another great product, yet again, from an amazing company.  Our family loves Peaceable Kingdom and all that they offer and the Friends and Neighbors game is another fun addition.

**Be sure to be on the lookout for post #2 coming soon with more great product features from Peaceable Kingdom!

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I’m a city girl turned country by my awesome husband and we have three busy boys and two darling daughters. I love spending time with my family, reading Karen Kingsbury novels, and catching up with friends while our kiddos have play dates. I’m blessed beyond measure and can’t wait to see what God has in store.
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