[Deptheads] Child Care at the Convention

[Robert Lionheart]

I am uncomfortable with our GMs becoming enforcers and/or telling a child to leave an area where the parent assumes they can be found.  

  I have run games where wee ones have been dropped off by a parent and then the kid wanders out of the room to go to the dealers room or look for his brother, etc.  
   
  The kid is not the GM's responsibility and at Gateway, I had a tween's parent come in frantic wondering where his kid was and all I could say was "he left."  No one at the table even knew because he left his backpack behind.  Most of us thought he was going to the bathroom when he first vanished. 
   
  ...now picture that scenario if the tween got hurt...
   
  - R
   
  
Janice Sellers <janicemsj at gmail.com> wrote:
  When it becomes difficult is when the child has already been left at
the game and the parent is no longer there. Then what happens with
the child? Yes, I say this from personal experience.

Janice

On 2/12/08, Devi Hughes wrote:
> The simplest form of enforcement would be a "GM" telling the child they
> can't play without their parent(s) present and supervising. That doesn't
> seem difficult to me.
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