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Game Night · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mamas. Dear mamas, does
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  Speaker 1: your family like to have game night?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas, Alma Ma and treting Us.
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  Speaker 1: Now our American mamas Terry Edville and Kimberly Burleson. Man,
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those things that I learned was
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  Speaker 1: so important to Wendy and I. We used to play
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  Speaker 1: games all the time before we had kids, and then we,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Bailey was born, and like a couple months later,
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  Speaker 1: we're a little snippy with each other and we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out why because it's not like and then
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  Speaker 1: we went, oh, because we used to always play like
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  Speaker 1: card games or whatever at dinner. It was just part
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  Speaker 1: of what we did at dinner. We played dice, we'd
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  Speaker 1: play card games or whatever. And now at dinner, we're
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  Speaker 1: feeding the baby and ourselves and we're not playing the game.
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  Speaker 1: And we started we started making a point to play
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  Speaker 1: cards again at dinner while feeding the baby, wife eating ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and our attitudes changed.
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  Speaker 3: Do you still do that?
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  Speaker 1: We still play games a lot with.
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  Speaker 4: The kids, with the aliens, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: His girlfriend and Julia, right, Yeah, we still play games
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 3: One thing that's kind of interesting we were in Shreeport
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  Speaker 3: and our sister had like a big event. She had
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  Speaker 3: like two hundred and forty high school kids in this
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  Speaker 3: giant auditorium. They had like a twenty minute break and
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  Speaker 3: Lindsey said, would everybody like some screen time on their
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  Speaker 3: phone or would they like to play games?
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  Speaker 4: And they yelled all of them were going games games,
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  Speaker 4: which shocked us. Sho. I thought they'd say, we'll scroll
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  Speaker 4: on our phones, we'll catch up with people, but.
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  Speaker 1: They can do that anytime.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you would think that since they had been there,
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  Speaker 4: you know till you know, that was kind of right
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  Speaker 4: right after lunch, so they had not been able to
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  Speaker 4: look at their phones, and it was about one o'clock,
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  Speaker 4: so you would think they say, well, I want to
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  Speaker 4: catch up. They wanted to play games, and it was
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  Speaker 4: just actually very heartening and refreshing, very refreshing. Yes, I
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  Speaker 4: gave you hope.
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  Speaker 3: I was walking online and it was just a stone
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  Speaker 3: and my son and his life, and they had another
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  Speaker 3: couple that they're getting to know and they're loving them
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  Speaker 3: and because they're playing games. When they see each other,
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  Speaker 3: they're playing games and it's like such a great way
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  Speaker 3: to get to know each other and you're focused on
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  Speaker 3: each other, you're not watching anything, You're just having some fun.
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  Speaker 3: So I was reading an article and I was talking
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  Speaker 3: about that's exactly what it's good for. Your cognitive abilities,
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  Speaker 3: your social ability, your confidence is. There's so many benefits,
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  Speaker 3: and I feel like people aren't playing games enough. It's
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  Speaker 3: more TV binging, phone stuff video games. But you know
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  Speaker 3: what I was thinking about. When we were kids, our
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  Speaker 3: mom and dad, they had a lot of church parties,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of like Sunday school class come over, and
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  Speaker 3: they always played games and spoons. I remember the grown.
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  Speaker 4: Adults like I remember you.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the purse game where they had the person and
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  Speaker 3: it was kind of like, what do you have in
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  Speaker 3: your person? You have if you had it, you ran
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  Speaker 3: to this spot. People are like crawling over each other
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  Speaker 3: to get to it. But the laughter is I remember,
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  Speaker 3: just the laughter and the fun. And then New Year's
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  Speaker 3: Eve at your house.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, does a beautiful job. Our other sister does
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  Speaker 4: a beautiful job of getting all the games ready, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And then so we have a bag that says, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, every o'clock games, seven o'clock game, and those
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  Speaker 4: are the ties that bind you know, No nobody's on
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  Speaker 4: their phone. We're all in this together. We're playing games.
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  Speaker 4: And even the ones that aren't game people, they end
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  Speaker 4: up being game people that night, because when you see
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  Speaker 4: other people having fun, you want to jump in. You're like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'll try that, and it becomes like the ties that
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  Speaker 4: bind you and the memories. I mean, our kids they
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  Speaker 4: still talking.
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  Speaker 3: Well, our adult children who have the opportunity to go
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  Speaker 3: out and go party and have fun, they don't. They
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  Speaker 3: want to stay in because the next game's coming up,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of the other.
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  Speaker 1: Things that when I used to coach soccer, and I
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  Speaker 1: would actually coach other coaches how to do the coaching
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  Speaker 1: license classes, and one of the things I would teach
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  Speaker 1: that the coaches is the games are the teacher that
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  Speaker 1: when you're trying to work on strategy and trying to
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  Speaker 1: work on a skill, if you'll develop a game that
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  Speaker 1: the kids can play while doing that, the games teach.
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  Speaker 1: You don't actually have to teach, let them use the
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  Speaker 1: game and the games can teach. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: actually a lesson for a lot of things. The games
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  Speaker 1: can be the teacher about a lot of things about sportsmanship,
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  Speaker 1: about how to deal with not winning or how to
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  Speaker 1: deal with winning. There's just a lot you can learn
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  Speaker 1: from the interaction of games that kids need well.
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  Speaker 4: And it helps with the social aspect of it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because I was so worried. You know, our kids were
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  Speaker 4: not video gamers. We were outdoorsy, you know, family were
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  Speaker 4: when we were growing up. Mom only allowed us to
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  Speaker 4: have an hour TV time a day, so we could
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  Speaker 4: choose thirty minutes of the morningmember Tom and Jerry in
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  Speaker 4: the morning, thirty minutes then Happy Days or whatever it
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  Speaker 4: was at night. And I think that that was like her,
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  Speaker 4: the way that she was able to say, look, you
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  Speaker 4: can have this is like a little perk, but you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna play outside, You're gonna play upstairs, gonna use your imagination,
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  Speaker 4: We're going to make things in the kitchen or what ever.
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  Speaker 4: So the one of the things that I was really
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  Speaker 4: bothered by is this generation of phones. Oh you can
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  Speaker 4: see all these kids going out on a Friday Saturday night.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be in the restaurant and you'll see a group
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  Speaker 4: of teenagers and they're all none of them are talking,
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  Speaker 4: They're all on their phones. And I started worrying about that.
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  Speaker 4: But this incident that happened when Lindsay gave them the choice,
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  Speaker 4: and they wanted to play games. I thought, okay, so
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  Speaker 4: inherently and innately, maybe it is we all want to connect.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a.
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  Speaker 1: Connector they want to still play. They just may not
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  Speaker 1: know how exactly. They may not know how to start it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about how Lindsay sets out all
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  Speaker 1: the games from New Year's Eve. Yes, but she's setting
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  Speaker 1: the game up so that it's easy for everyone else
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  Speaker 1: to play.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta have that pied piper. You got to have
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  Speaker 3: that one that initiates the game plan.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Brother listen, thank you so much, thank thank you,