I noticed this when I was at a restaurant with pinball tables. All the adults were trying to feign maturity by sitting idle, even disengaging interactions with their kids once their children started playing some of the pinball tables.

It was some little league award ceremony and the kids were ignoring their own ceremony to play pinball. The parents had to literally scold and drag them away from the pins, credits still loaded. It made me wonder if the entire ceremony was more for the adults than the kids.

Most adults are dead inside.

Invite them to SEE it. Nice. Massage them into playing.

Thanks. I have fond memories of nut shotting the red side in Karate Champ. One of my favorite arcade moments of all time.

My neighbors are a bunch of disability cases who yell at their kids for arbitrary nonsense while endowing them with issues of low self esteem and a poor personal body image. I cringe when my kids are playing outside with those messed up people's kids.

Our neighborhood has an 8 year old girl, with apparently no parents, who constantly rides her bike around the area by herself knocking on our door asking for my kids to come out and play in the 104 degree weather.

"Can your kids come out and play?"

"Sorry, it's just too hot for them to play."

"Well I'm outside." ... awkward pause...

"Dude, my kids are like 4 years old." wtf?

screw that family