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At any rate, forbidding is not the solution. It only cures the symptoms, not their underlying cause. Better to learn to your kids to enjoy the good things in life responsibly.

And even if your kids play more than you would like, so what? As long as it does not detract from other aspects, it should be fine. Talk with them about it. It seems to me that the best way to make responsible adults is to treat children like responsible adults to begin with (with some caveats, of course).

If any activity starts to become detrimental, there's the time to start acting... Not on a vaguely defined fear that it might lead to something bad. That's trying to exert a level of control on another being's life that simply cannot be achieved, and it often backfires badly later in life, when the activity becomes available without imposed restrictions.