Team Building Games For Kids

Team building games for kids, are intended to help children in different ways as they develop in life. When children are together during social functions trouble is bound to occur eventually, for instance, fights, straying, accidents and noises among others are bound to occur. There is need then to bring children together in a group to engage in constructive activities instead. Team building games for kids, are mostly held indoors or outdoors. They should be real fun as well as provide knowledge. There is team building games for kids, which are classified as action games as they are meant to ensure the children remain energetic and lively. A game like banana pass is an outdoor action sport where children race in a relay using a banana as the baton. Follow the leader is an energized game where players are expected to ape and mimic what the designated leader does. As such it is hilarious and fun filled. Pulse games are recommended for large indoor groups. They form two lines and move around fast mimicking an electric current.

”Mother may I”, Involves selecting one child to act as the mother. The child should then sit at a distance; she then calls other children’s names at random and gives them orders. It’s intended to emphasize use of good manners. “Ghost in the Graveyard”, is played at night whereby children chase each other in a hide and seek type manner. Some games are structured to sharpen children’s thinking and analytic qualities. These are important just as much as the physical exercises. Bowl games are usually guessing games that could be played at parties. It involves cutting small papers where children write on anything that comes to their mind. Later they are folded back into the bowl and players asked to describe as many as they possibly can. “Human Sculptures”, is a general party game intended to stimulate children’s minds. One chooses a topic children love, like a famous movie. Players then group themselves and write ideas from it and later form a human shape with their bodies. The other groups are asked to say what the figures represent.

There are also various team building games, for kids that are promoted by the Christian Gamers Union like “Imperial Guard”, played in large groups. It involves a person verbalizing their name, then whoever is at their right repeats it and gives their own name. The third person repeats the names of the first two and gives theirs. So in the end the last person is expected to remember the names of all the others. “The Legend of Zelda”, is a popular video game that could be played during church concerts. Christian singing games and teens could have short bible readings in them. Games can be classified in many ways, like the amount of energy that goes into carrying them out thus, they are referred to as action or stationary games. Others are classified in term of their location like party games, indoor and outdoor games. Whatever they are called team building games for kids are intended to horn children’s teamwork and leadership skills.

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Boomers Building Tolerance- Understanding People of Different Religions

Terrorism in the name of religion, riots in god’s name, killing innocents for not worshipping a particular god, hatred or dislike for people of a particular religion, looking at worshippers of a certain god with suspicion….unfortunately such is the reality of today’s world.

Religion is a personal choice which is supposed to bring peace of mind and guide you to your life’s purpose. Loving god should encourage you to love everything he/she has created…yet why is there so much destruction and violence in the name of religion? Perhaps it’s because we focus on our differences more than our similarities. We look for ways to hate others because they are different from us. We use religion to create “Us” and “Them”. Religion is something that can actually unite all humanity; it’s only a matter of how we choose to view it.

Religions are like books with different covers, names and supposedly different philosophies, but if you read between the lines, you’ll observe that every religion promotes and encourages the same basic virtues. Let’s examine the similarities one by one:

*Reap as you sow- Every religion believes in this concept, though the names given to it may differ. While some call it sin, it’s known as Karma or the threefold principle in others. Whatever you call it, the basic principle remains the same; if you do or think of something that harms or hurts others, you will pay a price! Every religion in its own way encourages goodness. What constitutes goodness may be different, but again if you read between the lines and remove the layers of corrupt human interpretation you will realize that peace, kindness and love define goodness in its purest form.

* The Concept of soul- All religions believe that the soul is indestructible, though there may be different beliefs about what happens to the soul after death. Yet to all, the soul exists as a fundamental universal religious concept. If you believe in the soul you know it can’t be destroyed, then why attempt to destroy human lives, when you know you have no power over the soul? Why even try to destroy something that’s indestructible! Isn’t that acting against the will of any religion’s god?

* The purpose of life- Reaching god or becoming one with him is considered the purpose of life. Every religion may prescribe a different path to attain that goal, but the goal is essentially the same; reaching your creator, whether in heaven or by attaining salvation by becoming like him, free of the cycle of life and death.

Human interpretation has corrupted almost every religion; it has given us a reason to hate each other. We are told we are different because our religion insists that ours is the only god. Does that mean people who don’t follow our religion are not god’s children? How is that possible? We are all humans, we all have two eyes, two legs, two hands, and one nose…our skin colors may differ but our blood is all the same color! You wouldn’t hate your sibling if he called your father “papa” instead “dad”? Would you? Then why hate humans if they address their god by a different name? You wouldn’t hate your siblings if their philosophy of life was different from yours? Then why hate people who follow different religions?

There may be a lot of differences in the way we live and the philosophies we follow. We might also believe that we are headed towards different goals, after all Islam’s heaven is not the same as Christianity’s heaven which is different from a Hindu’s heaven, which is again unlike the Buddhist heaven, or Jewish heaven…yet if you ask yourself what heaven is, all religions believe it is a place of infinite bliss that only those of pure souls reach and hatred is the antithesis of purity.

There’s no denying that there are a lot of differences in the philosophies of religions, but if we learn to focus on our similarities instead of our differences, we’ll learn how to love and accept each other as fellow humans; children of god, even if they address him or her by different names!

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