Daily Mail, UK - Children's card games are dying out because of the dominance of computer games and social media, according to a report yesterday.
Fewer than half of all children now play traditional games like snap, beggar your neighbor, or old maid, it found.
Almost twice as many children and young teenagers spend their time gaming alone over a mobile or tablet than playing with others in the way earlier generations did.
Almost twice as many children and young teenagers spend their time gaming alone over a mobile or tablet than playing with others in the way earlier generations did Fewer than a quarter of children knowing the rules of chess, around half the number of their parents’ generation +3
The drop in card-playing means only 44 per cent of children aged between seven and 14 are familiar with 52-card packs, the significance of Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks, and the games of chance and skill that go with them, the report produced for Barclaycard said.
It has worried parents and educationalists who believe that card skills sharpen arithmetic and a child’s ability to solve problems, as well as improving the way he or she gets on with other children.
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Not just children, but saturday night poker parties in high school and beer and poker parties in college. Card games are essential to social structure and cognition. The intricate plot line of the old Burns and Allen show followed the model of a bridge game, with Gracie always winning her bid. But in a world increasingly dominated by our computer/guardians perhaps it's important for children to spend quality time with machines rather than people.
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