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Learning SquarePants the Leapster Game: Day Saves LeapFrog SpongeBob for good
They won’t even know they are learning!. This is a great game. I would not recommend LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game: SpongeBob SquarePants Saves the Day for children under 4 unless your child is just extremely advanced. My 4 yo can play some areas of the game easily, but the word areas are more difficult and he becomes frustrated. BUT for kindergarteners this game is just right. My 6 yo is learning a lot, and unlike other learning software, she doesn’t mind playing it because it’s fun and of course there is the very cute and charismatic Sponge Bob.
The goal of the game is to get ingredients to make a new secret sauce. Upon completing the different areas of the game you are given some of the ingredients to make the sauce. So the children get the sense of reward for all of their work. That’s been enough motivation for my daughter. It teaches counting, math, letters, word building, and there’s music (I’m probably leaving a few things out) It’s wonderful, a must have for all leapster owners.
Why LeapFrog Game: Learning Leapster Wolverine
Great game, shows kids how greed can succeed.. Grandma loved this game, and we still do, because LeapFrog Leapster Learning Game: Wolverine allows any player with the greatest greed and the most dogged determination to eventually own everything. We kids, under Grandma’s skilled tutelage, quickly grasped that any “ownership” game (real estate, commodities, operating-system software, TV stations, whatever) could eventually concentrate in the hands of a ruthless elite, especially in the absence of truly fair-minded “government.” Highly educational!
But the game should not be so focused on mere “real estate.” The things missing in Monopoly (then and now) are opportunities for: predatory pricing; ownership and control of the mass-media (and public opinion) by mega-corporations; cutting taxes to pump up the national debt which future players (your kids) will owe to The Bank; and clever use of armed forces to occupy and defend other countries’ natural resources against foreign invasion or at least against use by local populations. Maybe those extra features could go into a future “MONOPOLY – Grand Theft Petroleum” edition?
Wonderful classic board game, but be sure Junior gets adult supervision or he’ll grow up imagining that playing Monopoly is even better than “moral values.”