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Typing Games Designed to Help Children Learn Typing and Have Fun

The rate at which the world is adapting to digital technology is changing fast and in the near future perhaps all learning materials will become digital. Any parent who cares about helping a child to master typing skills will not hesitate to introduce a child to typing games. It should be easy for you to be able to find an online resource for different typing games for your kid. There are lots of games and programs out there in the internet these days that are specifically designed to help children learn how to type. 

Schools have also started offering basic typing skills to children to help them learn the skill of typing. Most kids typing games are designed in a way that the kid’s typing skills is graded. The typing games help children to acquaint themselves with touch typing by use of ordinary typing methods. The typing methods usually involve lessons centered on fingers, keys, and also placement of the hands on the keyboard. 

Some typing games designed for kids 

Here is a list of some of kids typing games you can find online that will help improve your child’s typing skills: 

1. Qwerty Warriors World 

It is a very interesting typing game for children that will help keep your child engrossed on the screen for long while learning new typing skills. This game is programmed in such a way that the player is supposed to destroy virtual enemies approaching. To achieve this, the player need to type letters on the keyboard. To be able to destroy the approaching virtual enemy, the player has to correctly spell a word and then press enter. This is something that not only helps to sharpen the child’s typing skill but also helps with spelling recognition. 

The other benefits that this game offers to the child are increasing the child’s typing speed, efficiency and accuracy. 

2. Bitter Boss 

Another interesting kids typing game that will not only help to train your child new typing skills but learn how to manage different tasks at one go! The child has to play by doing the typing fast to stop the green color from occupying an empty bar. If the green color fills up the empty bar before you finish typing the sentence provided you lose points. It is a game that helps the player increase typing speed and spelling accuracy. 

3. Ninja Hunter 

In this typing game designed for children, there is a good ninja who is standing guard on top of a temple to protect it from bad ninja invasion. Names of the bad ninjas will be displayed for the player to type. By typing the names of the approaching bad ninjas they are vanquished before getting into the temple. The aim is to vanquish as many bad ninjas as possible by typing their names to safeguard the temple. The more bad ninjas the player vanquishes the more points the player earns. 

It is a good typing game for your kid that will not only train the child to type fast but is also fun and enjoyable. 

Enter to Win Family Games in this Spin Master Giveaway

Have I’ve got a fun sponsored giveaway opportunity to share with you today! If you’re lacking in the family game night department (don’t worry, we are too), here’s your chance to enter to win a fun family-friendly game package from Spin Master Games.

Kelley, my wonderful wife, and I just returned from a weekend of camping together without Avery. Don’t worry, we didn’t leave her alone, my mom (G-Ma) stayed at our house and had a blast hanging with her granddaughter…..or so we’re told.

Anyway, everyone survived so that’s a plus. The day after returning, we celebrated Kelley’s 31st birthday (Happy Birthday, Dear!) by hanging around home, “fixing” a pipe to our sprinkler system (fingers crossed), I still did squats, and watching Avery eat her feet on the baby monitor instead of taking a nap.

So, we all need time to recoup before I share anything else about the weekend, but in the meantime, I suggest entering to win a fun game package that any family will enjoy to have around. Check out the details below and good luck!

Check out the amazing new Quick Cups video from Spin Master and enter that giveaway for a chance to win 1 of 3 grand games packages including Fibber, Moustache Smash, Boom Boom Balloon, Shark Mania, Rapidoodle, and Quick Cups! Also – 10 Fantastic Runner Up Prizes of the Quick Cups Board Game!” Quick Cups is a great game where kids can outperform their parents if they have a quicker eye and hands! It’s a game for everyone to play and ANYONE can be the winner!

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Again, best of luck and see you back here soon to share a few words and pics from our camping adventures. Psst – not too much of an adventure since we just tried to enjoy the peacefulness of not being a parent for a full day.

6 Ways Playing Halo Prepared Me to Be a Dad

Parenting means trading this sticky grenade for poop. Basically the same thing!!

Ahhh, the days of playing Halo on Xbox! Most of my college days were spent slaying and being slayed in multiplayer battles with people all over the world. And let’s not forget the epic Capture the Flag (CTF) sessions; loved those!

Well, first we used giant, 75ft Ethernet cables to connect multiple Xbox’s before Xbox Live became an option, but either way, it was a blast.

Long gone are the days of playing video games, I don’t even own a game system now, but there will always be a gamer inside of me. I’d be lying if I said I don’t have the urge to play every now and then, but I’d much rather be doing something active as a family so we can set a good example for Avery. I know we’ll allow her screen time and maybe we’ll even get another game system to play together one day, but we won’t let it become a habit.

Over the years of my Halo playing, homework was pushed aside more often than not, and I’m sure I even missed a few classes as a result of staying up too late to play. But that’s not to say I have nothing to show for my countless hours of battling opponents across the globe and going back and forth with smack talk as we sat in the “waiting room” waiting on our game to load. Actually, in retrospect, Halo has taught me several things that have helped prepare me to become a parent.

  1. Hesitation can get you killed. When battling an opponent in Halo, hesitating is a guaranteed way to get pistol-whipped in the back of the head or sniped from afar. This applies to parenting in that hesitation can result in lost opportunity. If your baby is starting to crawl, do you run and grab a camera, and if so, digital or video? You have to think fast, without hesitation, or you’ll miss capture the “first” moment to relive years down the road.
  2. Teamwork is key. When in battle, sometimes you need to leave your ego at the door and help your teammates instead of getting all of the kill points yourself. Or during an intense CTF session, you work with your team to decide who defends your flag while others seek to capture the opponent’s. You never know when you’ll need help from a teammate, so keeping them on your good side is vital. Going Mom and I have our differences, as do all couples (right?), but I know that by having her back and working with instead of against her makes things much easier for the both of us. As a SAHD, I am the guardian of our flag (home and Avery), while Kelley works to capture the flag (earn income). So far, we’re both “winning”.
  3. Experience yields success. The first time I played Halo, I could hardly figure out how to move in a straight line, much less actually shoot something! But over time, maybe too much time, I was on the leaderboard when facing many opponents online and amongst my friends. Practice makes perfect, right? Same goes for parenting; you learn as you go. As every month passes, Kelley and I are just a little more experienced than the last and feel more confident in our parenting skills. Now we are better able to tell if Avery’s cries are purely for attention or if she has a poopy diaper.
  4. Anticipation is education. Educating yourself to know what your opponent will do before they do it is key to survival. If you know one of your enemies has a favorite hiding spot, you get there first and surprise attack him when he arrives. As a parent, it’s important to create a daily routine so your baby learns to anticipate most of the daily activities. Also, when playing with your baby, they learn anticipation when you do things like gently blow in their face/ear, tickle them, or just make a surprise sound with exaggerated facial features.
  5. Winning and losing comes in streaks. There would be some sessions where I was on a role and get several “Killtaculars” (it’s a Halo thing if you didn’t know), and then other days I’d just get killed the moment I respawned. Its life, it happens. As a stay-at-home parent, I have awesome days where Avery is a happy baby, we enjoy time together, and she takes the bottle without fussing. But then other days it seems as if she has a personal vendetta on daddy and screams at the tiniest indication I might set her down, and there’s no way in hell she’s having a bottle. Understanding I’ll have these streaks allows me to move on and simply look forward to the next day without stressing over lost battles. Even though I sometimes still do
  6. Don’t try to be Legendary. In Halo, you can play the campaign on an Easy, Normal, Heroic, or Legendary setting. As you would guess, Legendary is extremely hard and even the weakest alien opponent can do major damage. In parenting, this equates to biting off more than you can chew. Our babies aren’t asking us to be “Legendary”, just give them love and attention and they will love you for it. As cool as it might be to do everything and then some, focus on what matters, your baby and family; other things can wait.

I’m extremely guilty of trying to be Legendary, which results in me getting killed (a.k.a overstressed) as a result. As parents, we are never done learning, but thanks to those years of playing Halo, I’m a little ahead of the game.

Can you attribute anything out of the ordinary to helping you prepare to be a parent? I’d love to hear your input in the comments below.