{"id":1734,"date":"2009-05-08T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/its-your-move\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:14:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:14:55","slug":"its-your-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/its-your-move\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s your move&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Five-year-old Ben eyed the dark blue box with the impressive gold curly writing on top. &lsquo;What&rsquo;s that?&rsquo; he gasped. &lsquo;Is it a game?&rsquo; &lsquo;Yes,&rsquo; I replied. &lsquo;It&rsquo;s Trivial Pursuit. It was big in the Eighties &ndash; a bit like Spandau Ballet.&rsquo;   <\/p>\n<p>  The other day relationships expert Christine Webber from Channel 5&rsquo;s The Wright Stuff told me she thinks the credit crunch is good news for families. &lsquo;It reminds us what&rsquo;s important,&rsquo; she said. &lsquo;It encourages us to spend time together.&rsquo; She&rsquo;s right of course. But there are only so many times you can hear the Ben10 theme tune without going stir crazy.   <\/p>\n<p>  That&rsquo;s why, like Tony Hadley and co, board games are making a comeback in a big way. (Although you do have to watch little ones with small pieces. My son once got a red chubby crayon stuck in his ear canal. It was a month before we noticed it was missing.)   <\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/5\/BritainsGotTalent_140_08May09.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"126\" \/>&nbsp;\n<td width=\"10%\">&nbsp;\n<p>     If your old games are missing vital parts, <a href =\"http:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/partner\/Hamleys.aspx?t=lwk\" target=\"_blank\">Hamleys<\/a> has a great selection of old favourites &ndash; plus the very funny Britain&rsquo;s Got Talent board game (&pound;25) and High School Musical Twister Moves (&pound;20). And when the kids have finished playing, maybe the adults can have a turn.      <\/p>\n<p> written by Liz Jarvis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five-year-old Ben eyed the dark blue box with the impressive gold curly writing on top. &lsquo;What&rsquo;s that?&rsquo; he gasped. &lsquo;Is it a game?&rsquo; &lsquo;Yes,&rsquo; I replied. &lsquo;It&rsquo;s Trivial Pursuit. 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