{"id":7549,"date":"2020-04-22T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:09:06","slug":"family-scores-record-4th-fight-in-day-over-childrens-board-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=7549","title":{"rendered":"Family Scores Record 4th Fight In Day Over Children\u2019s Board Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/monopoly-junior-300x230-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8092\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Halupnik family like other families\nthroughout Stapleton has tried to make the most of this situation and has tried\nto keep busy.&nbsp; \u201cAnytime we have an opportunity\nto get outside, we do that so that we can kill some time, obviously,\u201d says\nmother Susana.&nbsp; \u201cWe have definitely had\nsome challenging weather days, so we have to become creative during those times.\u201d&nbsp; Husband Mark acknowledges the challenges of\ngetting through each day and each week.&nbsp; \u201cWe\nfor sure have allowed more screen time than we have previously.&nbsp; But, we are still conscience of it, and we\ncut it off to make sure the kids are being as productive as they can in this\nridiculously crappy time.\u201d&nbsp; The Halupniks\nhave a 10 year old son and an 8 year old daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>When the kids aren\u2019t doing schoolwork or getting\nscreen time, they will sometimes play peacefully together.&nbsp; \u201cSometimes it\u2019s great,\u201d says Susana.&nbsp; \u201cThey will draw together or make up some fun\nthing to do together in the basement with toys they hardly ever play with.&nbsp; But, like most siblings, they definitely get\nin some fights.\u201d&nbsp; One of the family\nactivities the kids will do is play card or board games.&nbsp; \u201cIt is something to do together as a family\nthat doesn\u2019t involve computers or TV\u2019s,\u201d said Mark.&nbsp; \u201cIt can be a lot of fun, but of course, there\ncan also be blow ups.\u201d\nLast Thursday one of those \u2018blow ups\u2019 happened as the\nHalupnik family was playing Monopoly Junior.&nbsp;\n\u201cRegular Monopoly can be frustrating for adults to emotionally handle,\u201d\nsaid Susana.&nbsp; \u201cThe kids version is less\ncomplicated, but with kids, things are added in such as who gets to be the\nbanker, who gets what piece, smack talk, and even dice rolling can cause stress\nbetween young siblings.\u201d&nbsp; During a\ntypical family board game there are usually more than four fights.&nbsp; What set the record was that the family tried\nto play the game four different times during the day.&nbsp; \u201cOne of the kids would get mad, throw a fit,\nand quit,\u201d said Mark.&nbsp; \u201cLater in the same\nday they would want to play again guaranteeing there wouldn\u2019t be a fight.&nbsp; Well, that didn\u2019t happen, and then repeat.&nbsp; We started and quit that game four times.\u201d&nbsp; Mark says the record is nothing to be proud\nof.&nbsp; \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t even know it was\na record until a friend told me I should look in to it.&nbsp; But, the reality is, with at least 10 more\ndays of full lockdown, I\u2019m guessing that record will be broken and the Halupnik\nname will be removed from the books.\u201d&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-6","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8093,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7549\/revisions\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}