What If You Have to Go Backward to Go Forward?
One of the rules of Candy Land is that young players can ignore the backward cards. They might not can handle it. But older players?
When our Candy Land cards kept sending Jeff and I backward instead of forward toward King Kandy, we tried to model healthy adult behavior of accepting our backward movements as fine with us. (It wasn’t too hard.)
But the real test comes in everyday life.
Read it all here: What If Progress Means Going Backward?
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Ha! I’m spending time lately learning the mysteries of patience in Candy Land as well. It’s just a tad too much like real life!
Lisa, fun to remember the HOURS of playing CandyLand with my now very adult kids! It got to be I loathed that board game. HA! What a super post … it’s been a long time since I’ve visited you.
Oh, the dreaded Candy Land! Ha. laurensparks.net
Great insights and encouragement, friend!