Building A Future: Enriching Your Child's Learning And Life Through Games

As I write this issue's All Ages editorial, my daughter is next to me, her face buried in my phone. She eventually asks me what "beta" means, and I tell her. She's playing a game called Wordscapes, which is an excellent tool for helping kids practice spelling and discover new words. My daughter and I worked out a deal that if she plays 20 minutes of Wordscapes, she can then scamper upstairs to play Roblox with her friends for the next two hours. She balked at the idea at first but has taken to e...