{"id":11146,"date":"2020-12-04T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2020-12-25T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T22:33:15","slug":"why-kids-can-kick-your-ass-at-videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/04\/why-kids-can-kick-your-ass-at-videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Kids Can Kick Your Ass At Videogames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids Are Master Manipulators. So Use Game Theory Against Them<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Kids are master manipulators. They play up their charms, pit adults against one another, and engage in loud, public wailing. So it\u2019s your job to keep up with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by CHELSEA LEU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAMI NIEMI<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

KIDS ARE MASTER manipulators. They play up their charms, pit adults against one another, and engage in loud, public wailing. So it\u2019s your job to keep up with them, Carnegie Mellon\u2019s Kevin Zollman says. His new book,  The Game Theorist\u2019s Guide to Parenting<\/a><\/em>\u2014written with journalist Paul Raeburn\u2014explains how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Force Cooperation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For siblings who refuse to work together, Zollman recommends a version of the prisoner\u2019s dilemma. Assign them a task they can do jointly, like picking up the toys, then give them each the same reward or punishment based on their performance as a team: If one kid slacks off, the next time around the other one is likely to refuse to cooperate, and both will lose out. Over time, this setup compels teamwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make Them Pay<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who gets the bigger room? Who gets to name the cat? It\u2019s the old King Solomon problem: Some things you just can\u2019t cut in half. So have kids bid with chores or their allowance. If one of them wants to name the cat Macaroni & Cheese, he\u2019ll have to pay for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from WIRED Kids Are Master Manipulators. So Use Game Theory Against Them Kids are master manipulators. They play up their charms, pit adults against one another, and engage in loud, public wailing. So it\u2019s your job to keep up with them. by CHELSEA LEU KIDS ARE MASTER manipulators. They play up their charms, pit adults against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}