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What Is Your Favorite Game To Play? by Brenda Dedmon
I
grew up in a big and fun family! I have five sisters,
left. When calling over team members, we would
and our house was the one all our friends wanted
use the chant, “Red Rover, Red Rover, send (name)
to come to. We had fun playing outside and would
right over!” Sometimes we would change the game
create our own games and our own rules! One of our
up where the runner would return back to their team
favorite games was “Red Rover.”
without taking anyone, or they could take anyone on
Red Rover was a game consisting of two teams. In playing, the two teams would join hands and stand in a straight line facing each other about 10 feet apart. We
the team back. As we played, we would run, laugh, and sometimes even get into arguments! However, one thing my parents had taught me and my sisters was that you could disagree without becoming disagreeable. What my parents meant is we could talk out our disagreements, but we could not be unkind or have any name-calling. Sometimes that was hard to do, but it also helped us learn how to get along with each other and our friends. I learned the Bible verse, “Be kind to one another,” when I was a child. My parents used this verse to help us learn that not everyone can have their own way, to share, and to use kind words to express our feelings. Perhaps you can think of a game you can play with your friends. You might even want to play Red Rover or
would want to make sure we had our strongest friends
a favorite game you like. As you play, remember that
holding hands with the weaker friends to make sure
if you and your friends do not always agree, you can
the line would hold. Then one team would call over a
talk about how you can reach a decision that will help
player who would then run and try to break the chain.
everyone. Playing with your friends will be fun and
If they were successful, they could take one of the
a great time for you to teach them a new game! Who
people that they broke through back to their team. If
knows? It may become their favorite game too!
they did not break through, they had to join that team. game would end when one team had only one person
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About The Author
Then the other team would call over someone. The Rev. Brenda Dedmon is the director of the Children’s Learning Center, First Baptist of Dalton. She is also an avid Alabama “Roll Tide” fan!
