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Because gambling addiction is real, and parents have a responsibility to teach their children good habits?
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
Because 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.