Genesis of Games

Manners can be recognized as a process in which children learn games and how to play them. The child also learns procedures, rituals, and appropriate amusements. Favorite games will have a great influence on a child's future: marriage, carrier, and even death. Solicitous parents pay attention to their children’s education of procedures, rituals and amusements suitable for their place in society. People usually take care of schools, churches, etc. but do not notice the role of games which form emotional dynamics of the family. These questions have been considered for thousand years.

Example of origin of game:
(taken from Eric Berne’s “W co graj¹ ludzie. Psychologia stosunków miêdzyludzkich” )
Seven year old Tany had a stomachache and his parents let him go away from the dinner table. He was advised to lay on bad for a while. Younger brother Mike said: “I have a stomachache also”. He wanted to get the same privileges as his brother. Father was looking at him for a while and then said: “You don’t want to play this comedy, do you?” Mike started laughing: “No”.

Probably it was just then when it became decided that he will not play in the future game - “I’m ill, I have to get some extra privileges.”

Children purposely start playing games. If it happens that the scheme of the game is consolidated in the future, origins of the game will disappear and hidden nature of the game will not be seen. After some time nobody really will know why one behaves in the way he does.