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> Being in the top 20 of tetris players is going to be very rewarding I was a pretty high-level Scrabble player, devoting a handful of years of my life to it,

• brailsafe 4y ago
  That's kinda cool. I did that too, albeit on a much lower level with other games like WoW. But they don't need to be that, and there's nothing inherently destructive about it. At some point you realize that you're relationship to the thing is destructive (hopefully) and you step back and make changes. If it wasn't scrabble, it could just as easily been something else. A more appropriate analogy for me would actually be frontend development in my early twnties. I was genuinely interested in the technical bits, independent of the fact that I hated various aspects of my life, but I escaped into it and later realized that it wasn't worth it because I was fired anyway. But I don't regret building up skills in that. Point is, your kid finds something they're good at, maybe you cultivate it rather than try and repress it. Maybe they get too obsessed because they feel repressed by their parents in other areas, that's a thing. But you teach them appropriate life balance skills and hopefully they have the framework to step back when it's time.