Article May 11, 1981 Issue

Playing games

ELAINE H. NATALE

"Oh, Mom! Look what we could win!"

My son was exercising his reading skills on the cereal box during breakfast. Excitedly he read the list of prizes to be given away in a sweepstakes. By just filling out the form and mailing it in, you might be lucky enough to win, the ad suggested. He and his sister pored over the description of the prizes, adding a "Wow!" here and there. The concept of a drawing for prizes was new to them. It did not escape my attention that both seemed to be eating an inordinate amount of cereal that morning, presumably in a rush to cut the entry form from the box and send it right away.

"I think it would be better if we didn't enter that contest," I broke in quietly. "It's a form of gambling, you know, and as Christian Scientists, we want to keep our freedom from the whole belief of chance."

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