I think what isn’t said a lot is how to make better behaviors more attractive - playing with friends, tackling on projects, pursuing professional carriers and making positive impacts to the world - than indulgence in slot machines.
One of quality differences that separate good social behaviors and addictions is that the latter is boring. I personally couldn’t get hooked with TikTok, not for fears of addiction but because it wasn’t much rewarding to me. If someone is stuck repeating actions lacking in diversity or generally boring things, even if it seemed stimulating on surface, maybe there could be some other reasons than that the machine’s just too toxic.
This isn’t to say that parents “failing” to save kids have to feel any sense of guilt or responsibility - addictions are real - but it does seem to me that a lot of internet addicted self-taught flamewars expert people (bad bad thing) have episodes with picky, overly interfering, in-satisfiable, jealousy, or sometimes downright insane parents.
Maybe that plays a role in addiction, maybe having happy and stable parents help in kids growing better.
(I wish I couldn’t recall my then-parent-ish holding chef’s knife at 5 years old me with the door to my back)
One of quality differences that separate good social behaviors and addictions is that the latter is boring. I personally couldn’t get hooked with TikTok, not for fears of addiction but because it wasn’t much rewarding to me. If someone is stuck repeating actions lacking in diversity or generally boring things, even if it seemed stimulating on surface, maybe there could be some other reasons than that the machine’s just too toxic.
This isn’t to say that parents “failing” to save kids have to feel any sense of guilt or responsibility - addictions are real - but it does seem to me that a lot of internet addicted self-taught flamewars expert people (bad bad thing) have episodes with picky, overly interfering, in-satisfiable, jealousy, or sometimes downright insane parents.
Maybe that plays a role in addiction, maybe having happy and stable parents help in kids growing better.
(I wish I couldn’t recall my then-parent-ish holding chef’s knife at 5 years old me with the door to my back)