Saturday 21 January 2012

Crosswords for Crossing the World


Recalling our childhood days,most of us may have funny experiences with crosswords. How many encyclopedias and dictionaries have been referred by us for getting a single suitable word ! We rubbed and scratched again and again !! All times we missed the prizes awarded by our children's magazines !! Yet we were waiting for the next crosswords !!!Here I remember many faces including the loving face of my catechism teacher of the fourth standard, who helped me  to write ' video' on a crossword instead of I am writing ' radio', when videos were not familiar to our villages.


Yesterday I myself prepared a simple crossword as a part of playing with her! She enjoyed filling it and 'painted' my drawings too.

I had no idea that a kindergarten child, who has just started to read and write the alphabets will love  crosswords. But she loved it, tried to fill it up curiously just looking at the pictures and telling vaguely ; b-for  ball, 'a' is written here...help me to fill...am I to write downwards now... A crossword is a powerful  equipment for beginning kids.

This game has enough internal motive to fill even a simple child with joy,enthusiasm and the spirit of a normal game, since most of the newly invented games are for making the children abnormal !!  !!!  !!!! 


A game with words,with an aim to conquer the world. That is why everybody likes crosswords. It is a measure of their word power as well as their knowledge curve. It is programmed with a two dimensional system of  applying knowledge and at the same time achieving it. Many brilliant people around the globe burns their brains everyday to complete successfully complicated crosswords !!

Dear dads and moms,
  1. It is a game,where gambling always fails. So,it has a moral value.
  2. Children always follow their parents or elder ones, quenching for the answers or clues. It has a social value too.
  3. More over it has the well known intellectual value.
Help your child to follow crosswords from their initial stages.See how much he/she is interested in using and connecting the alphabets he has just learned.  Many daily crossword problems available on internet too,suitable for the tastes of  our naughty kids.

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