The Truthful Play Deck: A Couple’s Dialog Deck for Prioritizing What’s Essential
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Based mostly on the Reese’s Ebook Membership Choose and New York Occasions best-seller Truthful Play, this couple’s dialog deck will make it easier to rebalance your to-do lists, reclaim your time, and rediscover and nurture the abilities and pursuits that make you uniquely you.
Whether or not you simply moved in collectively, hit a snag in your home bliss, or are struggling to maintain along with your rising household, this adaptable card deck will make it easier to stability the work wanted to maintain your family buzzing. This is what you are going to do:
1) Sit along with your companion for an hour while you’re relaxed and feeling good (food and drinks assist!)
2) Lay out all the duty playing cards, select solely those that apply to your loved ones, and take turns deciding which duties you may personal utterly
3) Declare your Unicorn Area playing cards, which permit you time and area to develop and pursue actions and expertise that carry you joy–whether it is studying a brand new language, taking part in music, or coaching for a marathon
Setting each of you up for achievement in your relationship and parenting, The Truthful Play Deck will change the way in which you assume and speak about your house life.
From the Writer
Writer : Clarkson Potter (October 27, 2020)
Language : English
Playing cards : 102 pages
ISBN-10 : 059323166X
ISBN-13 : 978-0593231661
Merchandise Weight : 2.31 kilos
Dimensions : 2.46 x 3.67 x 5.6 inches
13 reviews for The Truthful Play Deck: A Couple’s Dialog Deck for Prioritizing What’s Essential
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Keri G. –
Great for relationships
This was recommend by our couples counselor and it is super helpful! There’s something about visualizing what each person in a relationship does that helps you gain a greater appreciation for each other. It can also help with rebalancing the things that each person is responsible for.
Sierra Muse –
I LOVE THESE CARDS!!!
These cards can seriously save relationships. It gives you and your partner a physical look and something to hold to show each other how much or little you do on a daily basis. It also gives tips and tricks on what to do when you or your partner need extra help for a time!
Chris Madsen –
Great
I am a guy and I thought the system used by the game is great for reducing household chaos
Greta Hadduck –
Amazing way to get you and your partner to have that needed conversation
My husband and I liked this deck. We did end up splitting it across 3 nights – more time consuming than I expected! It was worth it. As expected, I was doing… Everything. Thankfully my husband was eager to take as many cards as he could. At one point he even said, I love getting to spend time with you and it was nice to do this. My deck was still bigger than his in the end and that’s ok. Taking all the cooking and dishes and half the cleaning of my plate is huge.We did make a separate set of “cards” of our own for cleaning. It is just one card and we didn’t want one person to do it all. It would be nice if they broke that down a bit more into “vacuuming”, “bathroom”, etc., but I get that that would get to be a lot of cards.
Barney Singer –
Quality cards, nice box
Quality glossy stock cards, good image resolution. Nice box too.
hmr1221 –
A good conversation starter, but the game isn’t a good idea.
These cards are good for starting the conversation and giving a visual representation of how much each partner in the relationship is carrying.The rules of the “game” don’t always make sense, however. For example, the rules say that cards cannot be shared. But it is terrible parenting to assign discipline to one parent. That should not be only one parent. And yet, the rules say it should be only one parent holding the card. My husband and I got around this by having a pile for him, a pile for me and a pile for shared. This then got us talking about what cards SHOULD be shared but currently were not being shared, such as only one partner disciplining the children or only one partner initiating romance.It’s also puzzling why some things are a card and others are not. For example, dry cleaning is its own card, even though many households rarely or never dry clean things. But household cleaning is only 1 card– all the cleaning.So, do they have value? Yes, they’re good for facilitating communication. But you might need to just use them the way that makes sense for you and your partner.
Home on Harrington –
Fair Play Deck: Great Conversation Starter for Daily/Weekly Chores â â â â â
Making a game of tedious tasks is always a good strategy. This deck has it’s pros and cons, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons. It’s a great way to start a conversation about the distribution of work in a household. Communication is key, and no one wants to feel criticized or as if they’re not contributing enough. It’s so easy to feel like a failure when simple chores are left unfinished because no one takes up the task in a timely manner, leaving an issue area like a few dishes or dust bunnies to grow into an overwhelming task. With these cards divided up, there’s no question about who is doing what and when. It suddenly becomes clear just how much each person is taking on, and if anything, helps everyone appreciate the mutual effort of keeping things running smoothly.It’s still often the case that the “mental load” of a household falls on women. As an article from Forbes on this very subject puts it: “Itâs having to remember to pick up eggs. Even if you ask someone else to buy eggs, itâs you then checking that the eggs were in fact bought. Itâs essentially project management. And when itâs at work, thatâs what we call it. Project management. Or just management. Itâs a whole job. Yet when itâs at home, we call it, well, we donât really have a word for it.” The micro-tasks that stack up throughout any given day shouldn’t fall to one person or one gender in a household, and this deck attempts to even that playing field.Pros:â Conversation starter (positive communication is key)â Making a game of tedious tasks is always a good strategyâ Assist in the even distribution of household work and “mental load”â Make clear who is doing what and when in a householdâ Foster appreciation between members of a householdCons:â More couple-centric versus family-centric or household-centricâ Many cards (almost half of the deck) for child rearing (these can just be pulled from the deck and kept in the box for childless households). Maybe a future installment of these cards could be further divided, so the child rearing cards can actually be expanded upon and purchased separately. This would make the set more approachable for different households and living arrangements, other than a nuclear family.â â â â â
Brett A Reynolds –
A game changer!
My wife and I used this for divvying up our household tasks. Everything came out fair and even, and weâve continued the same task list for the past couple of years.
Jill –
As a therapist, I’ve used this tool with couples many times. It’s helpful for discussions related to domestic labour imbalance and mental load.
Sara –
This was a great way to visualise the workload both of us have and to reassign certain activities – clarity around housework most definitely helped!
Ana Costa –
me encanta 🙂
Kirsty –
This is such a great tool to promote healthy conversation with your partner about the visible vs invisible load of a family. Random things you’ve never considered come up and resolved in the same conversation.
CityMouseT –
This deck is a great starting place for even making partners aware of the mental/responsibility load being shared. Can’t recommend enough. Would suggest a follow up with the Newsom Documentary of the same name. Definitely a great way for partners to understand one another better.