4 childhood games that act as patience-building therapy today

Remember how childhood games were just games for fun, where the best part was not emerging as the winner, but the steps and conversations in between, with friends and family? From spying on your neighbours card deck to trying to establish one dice unit less or more to escape the snakes in the game of Snakes and Ladder, we all grew up. The faster we grew the more we became involved with profession and education, detaching ourselves from childhood games. But the interesting part is that several of these games are coming back as patience therapies and prescribed by experts for family and professional team bond building or just for increasing individual patience.

Did you know these four childhood games can act as therapy for adults today?

What is seen I newer names of frames today, are actually childhood games that one so dearly loved but lost touch with in the past as life progressed. Here’s how the world is rediscovering them again for wellness, and mental health.

Lost Legos

Today, while one has towering lego lands and children love piecing the blocks together. Legos are just an improvisation of building blocks that one so dearly loved as a child. Each pack, an adventure to achieve the ultimate design by fitting all the blocks in the right places. It not only needs patience but also strategy, thinking, understanding and if you time the whole activity then working smartly also counts.

Fill in the blanks

Not literally out of your language books, but definitely out of puzzle games! Experts recommend spending 10-15 minutes each morning trying to solve a puzzle, either with puzzle blocks or one with numbers. This strengths your patience, kinetic ability, thinking capacity, timeliness, makes you more organised and definitely keeps the brain working sharper.

Board games

These have many more advantages than just improving patience. Board games like Snakes & Ladders, Chess, Monopoly can never be played by one person. When you start playing with a team of people, it automatically calls for shared experiences which helps in improving the bond between one another. It makes you acknowledge the other person’s presence, understand that they are different individual and you may have to wait patiently and politely for them to pick up and more. When played with family members it also brings back memories and a smile on your faces. And of course, new memories are created.

Rubik’s cube

If you want to increase your concentration, kinetic sharpness, observation power and exercise your brain, then the Rubik’s Cube is the perfect one-person game for you. Take your time, solve the equation and better yourself as a person.  

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