Games before the player

I'm ready for the future, somewhat.......at least when it comes to games.   I bought Blink  and Set, two games that require some thought, but can be picked up by kids.   They are supposed to be good for making baby a genius.   

Set is definitely the better of the two, from an adult perspective.  It's more complex - difficult even, at first.   It'll be a while before Lily can play this (much less the boy....2014, maybe?  Damn...that's a long way off).    I could see her playing Blink in a year or so.   

I also received Nurture Shock - a book on child development.   It's another book telling us how everything we know about raising kids is wrong.   For example:  praise trying, not success....talk to your kids about race....it's OK to fight in front of kids, as long as you resolve it in front of them too, etc.     It's supposed to be sort of the Malcolm Gladwell book on Child Development, in the sense that it takes what scientists are doing in labs and makes it palatable to us common folk.

I can't wait to read it, and hope it's as good as the cover - it's at the top of my queue now.