Comments about ‘Family card game teaches lessons ... like, how to lose graciously’

We love playing games as a family, too. How is this game played - rules, etc. Sounds fun.

Sets and Runs sounds like a description of my irregularity problem. Fun article though.

"We hope faithful Latter-day Saints will not use the playing cards which are used for gambling, either with or without the gambling." Spencer W. Kimball, "God Will Not Be Mocked," Ensign, November 1974, pg 6

"By the way, I hear that card playing is becoming very, very popular, and that the Church must be in favor of card-playing because the Church authorities never say anything about it. From the time I was a child and read the Juvenile Instructor, published for the benefit of the people, I have read nothing except condemnation of card playing and the wasting of your time in doing something that brings no good, bodily, intellectually or in any way, and sometimes leads your children to become gamblers, because they become expert card-players. The Church as a Church requests its members not to play cards. I hope you understand me, and I want you to know that I am speaking for the Church when I ask the people to let cards alone." President Heber J. Grant, Conference Reports, April 1926, pp. 10­11

"Card playing is an excessive pleasure; it is intoxicating and, therefore, in the nature of a vice." Joseph F. Smith

"Children should be encouraged in the home to read and be instructed in the value of good books and how to discriminate between the good and the bad in literature. It is far better for a home to be thus provided where the children can be entertained with a good, wholesome story than to more than waste their time playing cards - a habit that cannot too severely be condemned" Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr., Doctrines of Salvation, Vol.3, p.204

"Let me tell you about a sister who became literally hypnotized by a deck of playing cards. Eventually, there were not enough hours in the week to fit everything in. Her keen spiritual sensitivity became dulled, and it was easy for the cunning one to help her decide to give up an important Relief Society calling and abandon her wonderful circle of former associates in favor of the nonessential, time-wasting pastime that had captured her fancy. Sisters in the ward continuing their lives of charity and compassionate service are now termed by her as narrow-minded, as hypocritical and do-gooders, but in reality, the only thing that changed was this woman." Bishop Robert L. Simpson, of the Presiding Bishopric, Conference Report, April 1969, p.86

Moderation in all things. I thought it was face cards that were the problem. Any game I know of can be played with Rook or Skip Bo cards. Better spending time playing a few games with family than sitting in front of the TV, Facebook and computer games. Now we're talking of real addiction and wasting time.