Lifelong Learning: The games we like to play

I have children. Therefore, I can tell you that when they were small, I “lost” every board game, card game or sports game we played together. If my children are reading this right now, I say to them, “Yes, I used to let you win.”

When my children were small, I had to work hard to peek at their UNO cards so I’d know which color to play so they would win. I used to make horrible decisions on which properties to buy in Monopoly , again so they would win. I let them win despite the competitiveness in me that hated losing. As they got a bit older, I would let them win some of the time and then I wo...