Monster Discipline Game (Board Game)
A Game that makes Disciplining Fun!
A game to teach your child self control? I chuckled. What kind of nonsense is this? But, I started to read about the game and it started to make sense.
How do you teach your children discipline?
Essentially, discipline is defined as the practice of teaching to obey a certain code of behavior. In order to obey this criteria, rules are defined and there are rewards and consequences for either following or breaking these rules. The idea behind the Monster Discipline game is that when families work together to create and define the family rules, they create more effective discipline within the family.
I am in the process of reading two books on mindful discipline and I have started to theorize that all parenting skills go back to having a disciplined mindset as a parent in order to develop these qualities in children. Mindful discipline, in a sense, is a way to live your life with stress and anxiety in check and by communicating effectively with others to lead by example. I wanted to give Monster Discipline a shot.
The mindful discipline approach is behind Monster Discipline’s game where the key is to work together as a family to define your discipline and what works and does not work if the rules are/aren’t being followed on a daily basis. While looking at the game you would not think there is much to it, but the game is more about the practice of effective and mindful discipline – so you and your family really drive how much you use/play it. The game board itself is more like a poster board that you hang up to track each day. At the end of each day, your child will get to roll the die by how many points they earned that day in order to move forward on the game board. You can make it as simple as, ‘Clean Your Bed’ and ‘Eat All Your Vegetables’ each day to move up squares. Kids earn points for things like to get a new book or enjoy a sweet treat (things we used) while moving up and down the monster game board. The goal itself is to make following the family rules something that kids want to do and make it a healthy habit and not about winning or losing.
I remember a great quote:
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
Children that have more discipline have more direction and self control and I like that you get to start each day back at square one. While this is a fun family game, it is a great way to talk to kids daily about advancing in life and by following rules there are rewards to making good choices. I found that calmly communicating verbally and through the die rolls at the end of the day with Brooke was a very positive experience for both of us. As a preschooler she is in that strange middle stage of wanting to be a big girl most of the time while sometimes still wanting to be little like her baby sister and we have positively discussed how that affects her behavior on several occasions. Ultimately, we all want to be the best person we can be each and every day and being present with ourselves in the moment gets easier and easier when you make it a priority and it is rewarding to see Brooke grasping these concepts. The game works really well for preschoolers and would probably work for kids up to age seven or eight (which is probably a good time frame to try a new approach to family discipline.) We loved being able to create our own Monster Board Game for our family and Brooke likes to earn points just to earn points right now which has been really nice. I may have to frame this game for when she is a teenager! Ha.
Monster Discipline Game (Board Game)
List Price$ 19.99 (Game also available at a discount as a download or Kindle edition)
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