Bahay-Bahayan

Today, I am featuring Bahay-Bahayan, one of the Traditional Games in the Philippines, my beloved country. I am highlighting one game for each post. How about we attempt to review the games we played when we were kids, when we all have the strength and time on this world.

It is fundamental for us to know and at any rate remember what we basically have in our country. Culture describes us, and these games are a bit of our lifestyle. Isn’t it true?

The Culture

Traditional Games in the Philippines are regularly played by kids, normally utilizing local materials or instruments. In the Philippines, because of limited assets of toys of Filipino kids, they more often than not come up on imagining diversions without the need of anything other than the players themselves. With the adaptability of a genuine human to think and act makes the amusement additionally fascinating and testing. Since it is a convention for Filipinos to play in a greater and open territory, most games are generally played outside the house. A few amusements are played or held during town celebrations in the areas.

Bahay-Bahayan is a pretending diversion where kids go about as members of the imaginary family, once in a while to the degree that one of them turns into the family "pet". They at that point carry on different family circumstances, for example, supper, going to mass, clothing, and so on. It would be perfect if there are four to five players of this fun game.

Life Tells

I had a delighted youth. I adapted relatively every game and did nearly everything a free soul could do. With my kin, cousins, and companions, I played tagu-taguan, patintero, bahay-bahayan. We climbed each mango, kaimito, santol, and some other tree nearby.

Bahay-bahayan wasn't precisely my optimal game. I thought of it as exhausting and a major misuse of my valuable recess. I opposed each time somebody recommended playing the game. I abhor it particularly in light of the fact that I frequently needed to play the father when all I extremely needed was to play the most youthful kid. I would have been to do anything while my companions broke their heads emulating the adults in the family. Be that as it may, I didn't get this decision part as a general rule.

Recollections of Bahay-bahayan are back in my mind nowadays and in living shading yet, paying little mind to what I am doing. Now and again they come in bits, here and there in entire scenes devouring my working time.

In spite of my overwhelming challenge against playing the game, bahay-bahayan showed me very most important lesson in life. It is absurd for grown-ups to act like kids and avoid their duties when even children try to act responsibly during their playtime and probably every time.

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Sources:
http://larong-pinoy.weebly.com/all-traditional-filipino-gamescompilation.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_games_in_the_Philippines#Other_advocates

My Previous Traditional Philippine Game Post:
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