Each child has his own game. Here's how to choose it based on its character

In collaboration with Chicco

Let yourself be inspired by Olga, mammaholic.com blogger and mother of three children with very different characters, who tells us what their favorite games are!

Favorite activities of Niccolò, Edoardo and Bianca Zoe

Niccolò and Edoardo grew up together (they are only 20 months apart) and for this reason it is inevitable (although not always right) to make comparisons or compare their different characters.
Niccolò has long been a shy and somewhat introverted child, very thoughtful and obedient, precise and tidy, a little engineer like his father!
Edo, on the other hand, showed a decidedly different temperament starting from his first two years of life in which he never slept a whole night. Extroverted and always smiling, despite himself he had to suffer the label of "brat" of the family.

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For some time I relived my childhood with them: I was the younger sister (with a difference of 6 and a half years) of an affectionately “nerdy” brother from whom I stole and destroyed every single toy preserved with almost maniacal care. My objects and games scattered around the house, my dolls without shoes, dresses or even heads, her items placed in their respective boxes and the collections of puppets in the special cabinets.
My brother and I were practically the same even as adults, on Nic and Edo instead I'm changing my mind. Thanks to the very precocious adolescence in which Niccolò fell with the beginning of elementary school, I am rediscovering or rather discovering character aspects of my children that I had obviously not been able to grasp.

Niccolò prefers physical activities that require continuous movement, Edo loves concentration games: that child who never slept has definitely calmed down!
And Bianca Zoe? She loves everything that is not hers! His favorite pastime is snatching toys from older siblings shouting "Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiio!"
Three children of different ages, three children with well defined tastes and different attitudes: how to choose the activities to do together? How to find an agreement on the games to play? And above all - given the time of year - what to give them for Christmas?

Finding the perfect gift to put under the tree is a titanic undertaking.The little ones change their minds continuously attracted by this or that game and, above all, they receive continuous stimuli that risk distracting and boring them.
Because playing is a real "job" to learn and take care of. Play is not a simple pastime but must represent the main activity (both in quantitative and qualitative terms) of the little ones: it is discovery, it is relationship, it is growth and learning, reworking of emotions, it is knowledge.

What game do we play with the family? Dad and I dedicate to our children especially weekends or evenings during the week; my husband, much more athletic than me, loves activities where you "sweat" like the Chicco Basket League, a basket with lights and sounds that has found a place of honor in Nic and Edo's new bedroom. Physical games help to release tension and this applies not only to us adults but also to children.

For rainy days to spend at home in the warmth Chicco has created the Family Games, the first line of board games for children aged 2 and over developed with the support of the National Association of Italian Pedagogists (excellent gift ideas not only for Christmas but also for the numerous birthday parties of the friends). Edoardo loves Under the Sea, a memory card game in which you have to find the animals in the right sequence (Bianca Zoe permitting!) And Balloons which teaches a very important lesson, that of collaboration to achieve a single goal: victory against black cloud can be reached all together, just as happens in the family against small daily difficulties.
And mum? My favorite Chicco game is, without a doubt, the Jump & Fit Musical carpet, a modern electronic interpretation of the classic game of the bell with numerous levels of play and difficulty linked to the stages of the child's development: Bianca Zoe throws herself on the boxes to listen to the towards the corresponding animal while Niccolò rolls the dice and performs the corresponding gymnastic exercise.

Dear Santa, you just have to oil the wheels of your sleigh and… the game is done!