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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By the time you buy two sets of board games, you might as well buy two kids kindle fires to play with or even regular fires.[/quote]

Yes, except that Child Life at the hospital has most of the games, and if I put out the word that I'm looking for them, I'm sure I'll get plenty of offers to borrow them. We also don't really need two sets for most of them, because we can just set up one at home and middle kid can watch it through the camera.

Also, my younger two kids are craving familiarity right now.  Playing board games together is something they've done a lot of at home.  They don't have a lot of experience playing video games together, in part because I limit screen time, and in part because their taste in video games is really different.  Both have played, and continue to play, video games separately, but they generally spend their time together building legos, watching movies, or playing board games.  Also, neither has played online, because our family rule has been that online play is only for middle school and up.  Not that I mind changing that (and middle kid has played a fair amount of online chess during this hospital stay, so we already have to some degree) but it means that it's new and unfamiliar, and that's just not what we're looking for.

Finally, we know how to make a board game work.  I don't know enough about online games to pick a game that works with the current limitations we have, as far as timing, fine motor, hand use, positioning, talking . . .  For example, when people tell me to set up a chat room, I assume that involves either typing or talking?  Both are hard right now. I'm sure we could make it work, eventually, but it could easily be an exercise in frustration while we figure it out and frankly I'm not looking to add more frustration to my son's life.  [/quote]

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