Around the Table Games
Travel Card Games to Keep the Kids Occupied

by Roy A. Barnes

If you want to connect with your kids more during the times you are with them, like family travel or dinnertime, Around The Table Games will help with their conversation starter travel card games.

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Conversation starter travel card games can help keep the kids occupied. This is because Around The Table Games will foster family communication between the kids and parents during travel by car especially, or anytime they're together and need a good conversation starter. This company makes decks of conversation starter travel card games which came about because of the idea of Beth Daniels, a mother of two kids and an occupational therapist who believes in connection among members of the family, whether during travels or at home eating dinner.

I Wish These Communication Tools Were Around When I Was Younger!

When I was younger, I used to travel with my family. Yet us kids (my younger brother and I) were not always engaged in civil and stimulating conversation. We used to tease and pick on each other on the long drives back home from Arkansas or when we headed down there. Sometimes the most memorable conversation "starter" came from my father or mother, who, when they were fed up with the fighting between my brother and I, would exclaim, "If you two don't stop that, I'm going to leave you on the side of the road!" or "....you're gonna get a whippin'!"

When the kids are engaged in conversation that's of interest to them, they are less likely to be fighting amongst themselves or bugging mom and dad or hollering for food, which is why conversation starter travel card games are great for family travel.

The Family Talk cards (yellow in color) and Family Talk 2 cards (orange in color) come in decks of 100 cards each. Each conversation starter card measures out to be 2 ¼ inches by 2 5/8 inches. These Around The Table Games conversation starter travel card games come with a carrying clip that keeps the cards together, as the family travel communication tools have holes in them which the clip goes through. These sets of card games are very easy to carry around and keep handy as they don't take up much space during travel.

Here's a small sampling of the questions that I found via both decks that will help stimulate family travel or dinnertime conversation between parents and the kids. I imagine some of the answers I could've given to these questions had my parents had these when I was younger:

"If you had to be member of a family you know, which family would it be and why?"
"What is one thing about each of your family members that makes you proud?"
"What is or was your favorite toy?"
"What do you like or dislike about your birth order?"
"Who is your favorite singer or musical group?"

These are the kinds of questions from the travel card games that can get a good conversation going amongst the kids and parents during a family outing or dinnertime because when someone answers, that very answer can spark some reaction and/or debate in the other people involved, especially when everyone who's together gets to chip in their own answers to the questions of the conversation starter cards. One question card can keep the family going on in conversation for many miles or during the course of the meal!

Because of the nature of the questions, you can use these travel card games for other functions besides family travels, including church and social gatherings and even business functions to help break the ice among people as they open up about themselves. The questions are respectable in nature and not titillating at all.

Price ranges for these multi-purpose travel card games currently are from $12.95-$14.95, with the higher priced Around The Table Games coming in jars. There's even a deck of conversation starter cards called Grandparent Talk, which will help bridge the generation gap. Website: www.aroundthetablegames.com