A Better Day?

Yesterday was not a good day with the children.  But sometimes. when we crack down hard on them, they wake up the next day and are in a much better place.   They know they can't get away with the attitude and treating each other meanly.   And that's what happened today. 

The day ended with us needing to tidy up the house for the cleaners who are coming tomorrow.   This is not a task the children enjoy doing.   But we combined it with our family game night activity of Among Us.

You get handed a card.  One of the four is an ace, and if you get it, you're the imposter, "among us".  We all set about doing tasks, two per floor, while the imposter tries to catch people alone and tag them.   If you're tagged, you fall down dead.   When someone finds a dead person they call for a meeting and then we try to vote and pick out the imposter.  If we get it right, the imposter loses, if we get it wrong, the imposter wins. 

The non-imposters can finish all six tasks each and then they win, or the imposter can kill everyone and win as well.   The children absolutely love this game, although it's much more fun with more people.  

The advantage to tonight's game was that tasks were cleaning up your things and putting them away.   So we got two things done at once: tidying the house and playing a game together.    

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  For being blind, my daughter does quite well at being the imposter.   She really wants to be it, although the first time she was the imposter and lost on the first meeting, she said, "it wasn't as fun as I thought it would be."  She's gotten much better at being sneaky. 

The Big Boy Update:  My son is very good at being the imposter and also of not being it.  We've lost to his  games far too many times.   He's really gotten the knack of the psychological side to the game.