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 Went to a board gaming event at the Asian Civilization Museum - It was really fun and I ended up playing 4 games - 3 of which I had never played before -


Chai Garam, a worker placement mechanic where you are running a tea stall to collect reviews;

Century Golem where you build a gem collection engine - similar to Splendor but different mechanics

& Secret Hitler which is a social deduction game.

Ended up playing  Coup and Century Golem with my son and #3 with all 4 of us (me, the kids and wifey plus 2 other NTU students)

It was only the next day that wifey pointed out something I didn't notice at all - I didn't play any games exclusively with my daughter.

Girl z is 8 and Boy Z is 10 - I tend to play games with him more often because he instinctively picks up and understands more complex games.

Except, she stills needs my attention.

And I need to get better at recognizing it.

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Something occurred to me a few months ago when chasing them to do their homework. The reason kids turn out so different from each other is evolution. Nature wants to maximize the chances of at least one surviving so it makes their personalities as far away from each other as possible. 

When people says these two sibling behave identically, I suspect that this is probably nurture - I should probably read up and see if this hypothesis is correct. Though I suspect, like with most things, the answer lies somewhere in between.

Boy-z is cautious, careful, diligent. Girl Z is a happy skipping lark who likes shiny objects. Boy Z will take time to open up. Girl Z will chat happily with everyone under the sun. Boy Z wants to learn a million new things - sports, music, games. Girl Z wants to watch tv and sing and dance.

I love them both to bits but my learning style favours the former over the latter. What this means is that I need to figure out how to adapt my style to her - what can I do to make learning fun for her - to make  myself more available.

I hope I can figure this out soon!

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