TIA would you encourage your children to fill their minds daily with thoughts and visions of destruction and 'what Dad might do' to them, and to make bets on exactly how, why and when that might happen too?
If they did, don't you think it would be quite likely that they'd behave in such a way as to eventually create the very circumstances they imagine and wager on? That is, after all, what they'd be believing to be the truth about what the future holds.
There's a big difference between acknowledging/responding to the reality of the moment, and exploiting it for the sake of entertaining yourself.