Teaching kids to gamble is a horrid idea.
>Also perhaps better than spending the money on sweets.
Yeah, the kid must be overweight as well. What about books, toys or cinema? And for instance I don't mind my kid having an ice cream with 6 (outside school) trainings a week
Teaching kids to gamble - I would see it as the opposite, teaching them not to gamble. They will be confronted with gambling opportunities all through their lives, with higher stakes. Better to learn with pocket money.
Here in Germany afaik there is also a law that children are not able to do business transactions. That means if you sell something to a kid, the parents can come back to you and say the transaction is invalid. I wonder how that works out with virtual goods and games?
Teaching your kid it is a waste of money and not to endorse that practice might be a better choice.
I don't think shielding kids from everything bad in the world usually results in them being able to deal well with bad things in the world as adults.
Not saying they should play those games that have gambling elements. But I also don't find it straightforward to say it is unequivocally bad.
With sweets I know stories of kids who weren't allowed any sweets who developed an excessive sweet tooth later on.
how do you teach them? this sort of abstract conversation would have gone in one ear and out the other when I was a kid. I only ever learned stuff was bad if I actually experienced consequences from it.