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Board with games: when childhood was slow

I've wondered, recently, what on Earth I did with my time when I was a little child. Seeing the manic smorgasbord of potential entertainment options for the very young these days makes me suppose my own distant early childhood must have been exceedingly dull by comparison. There was no internet, no instant access to streaming videos on mobile phones and way fewer toys than are around today. Television turned up in our family when I was about four or five, but its offerings for children were limited and my parents rationed it - at first, anyway.…

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Snakes and Ladders

Snakes will take you down, but ladders can lead you back up. The snakes are bad deeds and attitudes. The ladders are virtues and good behaviour. But, problematically, whether you encounter a snake or a ladder depends on the random roll of a die. I’m talking about Snakes and Ladders, of course, that old game some of us played when we were children. It’s a grid, like a bigger version of a chess board, and you roll a die to determine how many spaces you move your counter from square one to the top of the…

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