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Help children learn important life skills through fun and engaging gamesCreated by Franklin D. Rubenstein, Ph.D.For 2-5 playersAges 5-12These domino games are a great, fun way to teach children social and life skills, as well as how to take positive action in their lives. Before playing a domino, players pick cards and answer questions or practice skills associated with each games topic. Games include four specific decks of cards (that relate to the theme of the game), and a domino game.Set includes one each of the following:Play-2-Learn Dominoes: Friendship Gamehildren will learn the essential skills of building friendships while playing an old time favorite – dominoes. The ability to make new friends, be a good friend, and resolve conflicts in a win-win way are practiced using the set of concept cards (Ups and Downs, Four Ws, Having Fun, and Making Friends). Before playing a domino, players pick cards from one of four decks and either answer a question or practice a skill.Play-2-Learn Dominoes: Anger Control GameIn this game, players have fun playing dominoes while learning to manage their anger and problem-solve in a thoughtful, assertive, and respectful way. Before playing a domino, a player picks a card from one of four decks and either answers a question or practices a skill. The Angry or Not cards give players practice distinguishing between situations that generally cause people to get angry and situations where anger is inappropriate. The Skills cards give players practice using a set of skills to help control their anger. Skills include thinking first, taking deep breaths, being assertive rather than aggressive, etc. The Action cards give practice dealing with anger in pro-social and appropriate ways. The My Anger Stories cards give players a chance to share the kinds of things that make them angry and demonstrate how to successfully deal with such situations and the resulting anger.Play-2-Learn Dominoes: Feelings Fun GamePlayers have fun playing dominoes while learning how to express positive and negative feelings appropriately, recognize feelings, and care about the feelings of others. Before playing a domino, a player picks a card from one of four decks and either answers a question or practices a skill. The Understanding the Feelings of Others cards help players learn to accurately perceive feelings in others. This is a vital skill for developing empathy. The Four W’s cards help players identify feelings and how to deal appropriately with difficult feelings; each question starts with “Who”, “What”, “Why”, or “When”. The Action cards give players practice dealing with situations that involve strong feelings. The Talk about a Time cards, help players identify their feelings and give them the opportunity to share with other players situations that evoked a variety of feelings.Play-2-Learn Dominoes: Bullywise GamePlayers have fun playing dominoes while learning how all kids can work to reduce bullying and violence. Before playing a domino, a player picks a card from one of the four decks and either answers a question or practices a skill. The cards turn the players into experts on bullying. They are called upon to give advice to targets of bullying, bystanders