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You really shouldn't be encouraging your kid to gamble.
by mattmanser 8y ago
You really shouldn't be encouraging your kid to gamble.
- kasey_junk 8y agoWhy?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoBecause gambling addiction is real, and parents have a responsibility to teach their children good habits?
- paulcole 8y agoHow about instead teach your kid to make good decisions. If you just ban them from doing everything that’s potentially fun, guess what they’re going to do the second you don’t have control over them... Ask every military parent or preacher with a kid who ODs or drinks themselves halfway to death their first weekend at college.
- Retra 8y ago"Don't encourage" doesn't mean ban.
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> How about instead teach your kid to make good decisions. By, for example, refraining from encouraging bad decisions?
- kasey_junk 8y agoI don't view 'never engage in behaviors that might potentially lead to addiction' as teaching good habits. Modeling, teaching and enforcing responsible engagement in activities that might be dangerous is teaching children good habits. Now there are certain activities that are practically impossible to do responsibly, so it's my job to ban those. I don''t see gambling as one of them. Just like I don't see video games as something to ban.
- snarfy 8y agoI remember a time when the only thing you could win was the high score. I hate all of the gambling games. The arcades are all dead now. They were mostly killed by nintendos and playstations, but I can't help but feel some of it is due to these gambling games. We have strict regulations about gambling for money, new regulations about 'loot crates', but somehow these trade-tickets-for-prizes games get a pass. There was a ticket game with a light that would spin around and you won whatever it landed on. One of the lights said 'jackpot' but it was impossible to win - there was a switch inside the machine that enabled the jackpot which was always turned off. A casino would be in big trouble for something like that but arcades get a pass.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoAnd it ruins the experience too. I remember when I used to go to arcades, and there were games that paid out tickets, and games that didn't. Playing games that didn't pay out felt like a "waste", because I couldn't get tickets. ...Even though they were likely more fun, and the tickets weren't worth all that much in the real world.
- toast0 8y agoI had enough rounds of almost enough tickets, come back next time and the prize is gone, or has inflated to twice the tickets to know that playing ticket games was a waste. So I spent my tokens on the fun games. I do like the free game mechanic in pinball though, you can earn one with skill, and there's a chance of a free game by luck with match at the end. Although, both of those are manipulated: modern machines will drop the replay score when it's not hit, and match is set by the operator to a percentage, that may or may not be the 10% it appears it should be.
- Nursie 8y agoI don't think winning tickets at games of skill and timing is necessarily gambling, though I do agree that some of these games are pure gambling. But I do think that we should discourage adults from 'winning' the prizes in kids' games.