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Yes, your kid will go to school with other kids who may be given money to play Candy Crush without earning it. You still have a choice as to whether to play the game for your child and give them free money (helicopter), let them play free range without the money (they may deduce that it's boring or that you don't love them), or give them an allowance for doing chores (they learn to make tradeoffs)... lots of other choices too.

What's irrational is complaining about being given the choice of how to raise your child, and then deciding that you are raising them in a way you don't like, but doing it anyway. Maybe it's human to be self-defeating, but it's not like other people won't notice, if you write about it.




> and then deciding that you are raising them in a way you don't like, but doing it anyway

That's really the thing here. The author realises these things are manipulative, and perhaps have a negative influence on his child's ability to think and reason about the world, and yet he's still staying up in order to help him play them.




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