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Parents worried about children's safety shouldn't let them play Roblox, company boss says
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Although i think you're right, you too where once a kid.
And. Tell me. What did you do with your money back then? Everything you bought was well thought out? You still use day to day everything you bought back then? Or where you just a child and did you buy candy, fireworks, some comics, that game console you sold 2 years later for not even half the price, that cheap rc car which broke after 1 day?
Its a slippery slope. Just because something doesn't have value to you does not mean the same applies to someone else.
Stuff like this can give kids a certain social standing in the brutal world of the classroom. That's something to consider also, group pressure, wanting to fit in. The need to be part of the group.
Allowance is a learning experience. My son did the same, for years bought only fortnite skins with his allowance. Like you i warned him against it. But i never forbid it. He's 14 now and regrets it.
He doesn't buy fortnite skins anymore. That's the end goal, isn't it? To learn and move on?
I'm not discounting that kids are kids and are still learning impulse control, but I'm trying to teach them good spending habits or at least consider the value of what they are spending money on before they buy. When I was a kid I didn't have much money so I did carefully consider purchases ( to an annoying degree sometimes my wife says still). I haven't forbidden them from buying anything, within reason, but they mostly have my frugality. I'm sure this is a journey lots of parents are on.