Zone1 Where A Kid Can Be A Kid?

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We never took our kids to Chucky Cheese, and did not allow them to play video games. Too much stimulation with no chance to burn off the adreniline, the definition of stress.

When it was "Showbiz Pizza," they had a commercial with a jingle:

"But, at Showbiz Pizza, you can act like a kid,
You can wiggle, you can jiggle,
you can flip your lid."


Yeah, no thanks. Not how we want our kids to act. We didn't stress about it, we just didn't take them.

Then their grandmother wanted to take them and we went along because we figured we didn't know enough about it to reject it, so give it a try.

Big mistake. Not knowing enough about it is plenty of reason not to take your kids somewhere.

My first impression when we walked in: A casino for kids. 'This is where children go to learn sin' popped into my head, and I'm not the type religious religious person who talks about it all the time.

Not saying it's evil, not saying that it's run by pedophiles. I'm saying that large corporations who make huge profits from children cannot be trusted with those children. Letting your kids run wild in an indoor mini-amusement park while you eat pizza and drink beer is not "parenting."
 
I'm pretty sure that they did this on purpose as I wouldn't put it past them at all. I am curious to hear what everybody else thinks though.



I would have never given it a second thought had I seen it and wonder what kind of twisted mind does.
 
We never took our kids to Chucky Cheese, and did not allow them to play video games. Too much stimulation with no chance to burn off the adreniline, the definition of stress.

When it was "Showbiz Pizza," they had a commercial with a jingle:

"But, at Showbiz Pizza, you can act like a kid,
You can wiggle, you can jiggle,
you can flip your lid."


Yeah, no thanks. Not how we want our kids to act. We didn't stress about it, we just didn't take them.

Then their grandmother wanted to take them and we went along because we figured we didn't know enough about it to reject it, so give it a try.

Big mistake. Not knowing enough about it is plenty of reason not to take your kids somewhere.

My first impression when we walked in: A casino for kids. 'This is where children go to learn sin' popped into my head, and I'm not the type religious religious person who talks about it all the time.

Not saying it's evil, not saying that it's run by pedophiles. I'm saying that large corporations who make huge profits from children cannot be trusted with those children. Letting your kids run wild in an indoor mini-amusement park while you eat pizza and drink beer is not "parenting."

Indeed, should never allow kids to have fun like that, it cannot lead to good things.

Here is another place where kids can just run wild while their parents drink beer.

 
The Chuck E. Cheese jingle was the first thing that popped in my head, haha.

Little known fact about Check E Cheese is that it was not started as a kids place, but targeted teens initially. They were the ones pumping tokens into the arcade games. I worked at one of the very first ones to open in Florida while I was in High School. It was the place to be for teens. The Miss Teen USA pageant was held in our city and they all came to the place. Talk about being in heaven!
 
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