by Joyce Slaton posted in Products

The best way to prevent your family members from retreating into separate rooms with separate screens the moment dinner is over" Play a game together. Games are a great thing to do with your kids for one reason: There's absolutely no practical point of doing so. It's purely, sheerly, delightfully something you do just for fun. And I don't know a lot of people who don't need more fun in their lives.
So try these 11 games (or any family game you like) on for size some night soon.
1. Doggie Doo
No one's going to accuse this superhot-with-little-kids game of being classy. But it absolutely cracks up young children, and adults might get some giggles too at all the farty sounds. The game is simple enough for the youngest members of the family. Roll the die and pump the handle on the dog's leash that number of times. The pumps push poop through the doggies, and whoever is pumping the leash when the poop falls out the rear wins that piece. First one to pick up three pieces of poop with their poop shovel wins the game. Play with: 2-4 players, age 4+

Buy it: $24.40

2. Jenga
The solid, fun-to-handle wooden blocks stack into a solid rectangle. Players remove them one by one and stack them on top. First one to knock over the blocks loses -- and in my family, they have to be on the one to put the blocks neatly away (or build the next tower). The game packaging says 6 and up, and maybe that's when players get good, but as soon as your children ar...