Modeling, teaching and enforcing responsible engagement in activities that might be dangerous is teaching children good habits. Now there are certain activities that are practically impossible to do responsibly, so it's my job to ban those. I don''t see gambling as one of them. Just like I don't see video games as something to ban.

If you just ban them from doing everything that’s potentially fun, guess what they’re going to do the second you don’t have control over them...

Ask every military parent or preacher with a kid who ODs or drinks themselves halfway to death their first weekend at college.

By, for example, refraining from encouraging bad decisions?