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Comment author: wedrifid 10 October 2013 01:41:43PM *  6 points [-]

My counter strategy for him trying to do this: no video games!

This strategy seems optimal for achieving the goal of maintaining your personal social dominance and in signalling your affiliation with the authority figures that the child chooses to defect against. Depending on just how gifted and resourceful the child is it may or may not result in the child optimising around you in the same way that they would optimise around any other part of the problem.