I would have commented even without the twitter nostalgia of blog commenting… but put that aside.

Maybe I missed it, but did you ask her about what she got out of the game play? I hear you feeling it got overwhelmed into the winning for sake of winning, but is there a chance your winning she might see as something to learn from? To want to up her own game? To want more game time?

That was my experience with Mom, who taught me scrabble early on. She of course won every time for a while, but the game play itself always made me want to play more, because it was about spending time with her. And over time, may be years, I started winning. That relationship we had, and I would guess you have with your daughter would never get tossed under the rug in one game play. There’s too much history there.

None of this takes away from the thoughtful leap you make to the non game of education. That line about our goals and practices is some great conversation going with my wife.

Nice post, as the commenters say 😉