Have a game night with friends or family.

“I am here to tell you, my friend, that the one thing that will almost always be a part of everyone's game night is frustration. Kids can be really, really bad losers. They lie and cheat. You might even get frustrated, because it turns out your dream game is not 100 rounds of fucking Connect Four. Or maybe you have one of those sophisticated children who enjoys Risk and Settlers of Catan, but, like me, you’d rather floss your eyeballs with barbed wire than spend an hour and a half reading the rules manual.”

“When Covid-19 kept us apart, game night was still just as important as ever. For us, it replaced birthday parties and afternoons at grandma’s. We spent a night playing an unofficial version of Cards Against Humanity online in a giant Zoom call with friends. My kids would sit at the table on a Facebook Messenger call with Grandma playing Go Fish. Not even a pandemic could keep game night away.”

“Me and my friends have a fortnightly game night, I have a daughter we’ve been meeting regularly since she was a baby, and she’s almost a teenager now, my partner always looked after her while I spent time with my friends, and I do the same when she spends time with hers, so it’s never been a big issue, in rare instances that we both have seperate plans on the same night we will compromise as good as possible, now my daughter is older it mostly means I host my friends at my house rather than go to them… obviously this would be very different if both parents are invited to games night”