Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens - page 12. (Read 3538 times)

Things will definitely not go well when we have thew majority of the teens being involved in gambling, this is not what they should all focus on when there are other things to invest their time on, we can see the use of online gambling platforms as a way of having freedom gambling for everyone regardless of age, but we can discipline our children from a particular age they should be involved or exposed on something like this, gambling is for fun but money is also involved.

Gambling is a gateway to many other addictions and drugs and it’s hard to shield the kids from these days. The best way is to lead by example and if you’re teaching your kids to do these things well honestly I am not a fan of corrupting the youth lol

You can call me regressive but I am against teaching kids things who are not really supposed to do because giving the information may tempt them to try it cause that's the age when we want to try anything that gives thrill but they are not really ready to consume such things but can touch the basics of addictions that cover the wide range including smoking,porn, alcohol and as well as gambling too other than that telling them you should not do might go the opposite way.

I have a 10 year old kid. I tried doing this, no access to real youtube but Youtube Kids, the kid didn't enjoy using the phone I gave. TV with netflix and youtube is where where we watch together and after some time, the remote is now with him all the time. But I'm fine with it since I can see what he is watching. Its the laptop the he is using is something I can't monitor since its where he do his school work.

After spending some time with his cousins, he already learn lots of gambling terms. Hard monitoring when you spend less together. You prevented him from learning these stuff only to find out cousins are teaching him.

The first point is that parents must educate them about the dangers of gambling in their teens and the impact it has on those who will lose everything from educational knowledge and other things that are detrimental to themselves. This explanation must be explained firmly to children so that they must instill in themselves an attitude of vigilance and avoid gambling.

However, I am worried that when teenagers use gadgets nowadays, they can access whatever they want and there are lots of online advertisements about gambling, so parents must monitor browser access history by synchronizing the history to an email managed by parents.

The best way to protect children from the bad influence of the Internet is to give them a level understanding of the good and bad of an activity, then continue by providing the impact it will have, and relevant examples to make it easier for them to understand it well. As a parent, you definitely understand the importance of choosing a good language for your own child, indeed this requires a long process.

Meanwhile, being too firm will make children avoid advice, while being too gentle will make them act as they please. As a parent, you must be good at positioning yourself, so that the function of supervising and providing understanding to them is achieved. Maybe this sounds trivial, but I don't think it's easy to balance it.

We cannot reject technological developments, by providing understanding regularly, in a gentle way, every child will definitely be able to take responsibility for their actions. Besides that, good advice will remain in their memories until they grow up. Another thing is, as parents should be a real example for them, you need to take care of your actions so that they don't contradict your words.

Yeah.
I think these days technology is advanced more that other years back. So presently, all smartphones have a feature called parental guide, this feature helps parents to control their childrens phone 100%. This is a nice feature that helps all parents to protect their child from online gamble and other online activities that makes children and teenagers not concentrate on other important activities. A teenager who understands computers so well can easily clear up their browser history anytime they are done with what they are doing. A teenager who's engaging on gamble both online and offline line doesn't know the dangers in front. As a teenager, you don't work and unless the person is a street hustler, gamble is a thing that a matured minded person should do because there might be a loss that a teenager will have an will not be okay with it because he's not matured enough to handle gamble losses.

I think the last paragraph of your statement really hits a point as you have clearly stated that it's actually not about saying no but explanation to why that kind of decision or choice is taken, well if am not familiar about anything am familiar with the fact that the human brains hardly processes the word NO it's just like building more curiousity on their mind.

You buy your kid a phone, a tablet, whatever - you're the boss of that thing. You got a right, no, a duty, to see what they're doing on it. Its not about being Big Brother; its about protecting your investment. Your investment is your child. These kids are smart, I'll give them that. They're figuring out ways around the controls faster than you can say "App Store." But we can be smarter. We can talk to them. Explain why we're putting these limits in place. Its not to ruin their fun, its to keep them safe.

The internet, its a jungle out there. Filled with predators and bad influences. Our kids, they're not ready for all that. So, we gotta teach them. We gotta show them the difference between right and wrong online. Thats how you raise a smart, successful kid. One who knows how to make good decisions, on their own. Its not just about saying "no." Its about teaching them why "no" is sometimes the best answer. Thats the art of the deal, folks. And thats how you win at parenting.

This behavior depends solely on how their parents raise their kids.  I have seen kids so close with their parents, even telling their secrets and activities openly to them.  The problem here lies on the parents since most parents often  implement superiority over their kids and treat their kids with less respect.


It is quite hard for the parents to monitor their kids 24/7, this is why it is best to mold children on their young age.  Waiting for kids to reach an old age before telling them the right and wrong maybe too late.  So as early as kid have consciousness parents should start feeding them good moral and right conduct.  Since kids when baby is like a blank slate, it would be easier for parents to mold their kids at its early age.


Same here, checking our kids belongings from time to time is a good way of monitoring them.  It would be better to find if our kids are into something not good in its earlier phase than knowing it at a later stage.  This way we can act accordingly and prevent them from committing a serious mistake that can ruin their life.

When it comes to preventing our kids in accessing online gambling, we can use applications and programs to block casino websites.  We can also check their gadget from time to time and if in case we found them guilty of accessing gambling sites, we can have a serious talk with our kids explaining about the negative effect of getting involve in a young age.  We should also make sure to tell them the possible consequences to the point of possible punishment if they don't heed our advice.  Parents should be open to the kids about the possible consequences if they become stubborn.

It is often the friends that influence them. You couldn't;t just observe them from afar like they are talking in a certain room. When a kid reaches their teen stage, they push away their parents especially when they are with their friends. Teens would rather be riding a bike than riding in their pop's truck.

You just have to have a close relationship with your kids and you can simply talk easily so that they are not threatened like they are being watched. Somehow this is hard to do when you already burst.

If you are afraid to maybe quarrel with your teen, I think having a gambler's advice on your walls might work.
Probably print some of these Anti-Gambling quotes and put them on doors.

22 Anti-Gambling And Addiction Quotes – Be A Proud Quitter
https://www.geckoandfly.com/27973/anti-gambling-addiction-quotes/

Parental guide is made available for parents to watch over the activities of their children and help in restricting the involvement of such children in some rated contents above their age. Kids and young people still find ways of bypassing such surveillance on them. Don't know how they do it, but kids always share information to other kids undergoing same troubles.

I don't see any thing wrong in physically observing the devices of the children. Their parents bought it for them and they should be some restrictions added to it. This is for the safety of the child. He or she may think he's not allowed enough time to handle the cell phone, yet that doesn't mean the child would stay without opening their books and doing their home works. Devices can sidetrack such thoughts from getting into the head of children.

Yes, on which this one would really be that mainly needed if we do speak about monitoring about our kids and also it would really be that become a necessity nowadays for us to have that contact that we could make out into our kids. It would really be that recommended or something that will really be that necessary but of course we do know that not all things that we could really be able to monitor out on the moment
that our children on what they are really that able to hover or the moment that they will really be trying out to see or look on what they are able to see online on which it is really that hard
for us to monitor. This is why it would really be that relevant that on the moment that we do need to make those teaching approach about on things which should be avoided.

Nowadays on social media on which everything could really be seen out on which there's no way that we could really be able to stop nor we would really be able to filter out.
This is why it would really be that relevant that you would really be that telling them about on those disadvantages or danger specially with gambling.

Smartphones have advantages and disadvantages, and the advantage is just more than the disadvantage. As a parent, you can still monitor your children’s smartphones, but it doesn’t make sense to me, which most parents don’t really do. Don’t just think they are your children, they also have their private lives, which we are supposed to respect as parents. But we can also monitor them even without searching their phones, if they are carefully observed, then we should be able to know if they are gambling or not, but it might just take time, and we should study the kinds of friends our children are keeping, some of them are being influenced by friends.

Blaming the cell phone is also not the right thing in my opinion because talking about cell phones depends on the user, just like you use a knife, if you use a knife to kill people, of course it is wrong, even though it can be used to cut vegetables or other things according to its good function.

What needs to be asked, why do parents buy their children cell phones that they don't even understand how to operate and also the negative impacts that their children might get when using the cell phone, of course parental supervision here is very important because he facilitates his child, occasionally you can ask your child's cell phone when he is at home to check his browser history and the contents of his child's cell phone gallery, this can certainly be done right? even though it is not a difficult thing for parents to do, if the child refuses it means that there are things that his child is hiding and that could be a sign that he is doing things he shouldn't do with his cell phone.

You are right but the problem is that many parents have no idea how to control the smartphone of their kids, at least in my country parents have no idea about many things that's related to modern technology. Almost 99% of parents don't know that their daughters post naughty pictures on Instagram, run onlyfans and do some other nasty stuff.
At my school, it was very popular to play slots and make sports bets, you were kind of cool if you were doing this. Parents had no idea about that because parents didn't know the functionality of smartphones and computers well. This problem might be fixed in young parents today. When I was a kid, you could scan the ID of your parent and create an account on their name. Then there was always someone who had an account and card from a young adult and they were cashing out money through them (account-to-account transfer).

I blame smartphones for this, when desktop computers were the most common option used to connect to the internet, a parent could easily supervise what their kids were doing online and even apply filters for them so they could not access some content not appropriate for their age, but now that smartphones are the dominant device used to access the internet, this is not possible anymore, as teens have those devices with them all the time and there is no opportunity for the parent to monitor, and if the need arises, restrict the content that can be accessed on those devices.

The irony here is that most kids even more knowledgeable about online casinos than some adults. A lot of old people are not really that good with technology and even if we know some basic features of a computer, we still ask for help from our children or grandchildren. But I think the problem also lies in the fact that many kids nowadays go unsupervised with internet.

It is not only gambling and casinos online that could be harmful to children but many others so we still should try to control what they see and what they can do on the internet even outside gambling.

Concerns not growing about teens realizing that they are not going to be making enough to afford living solo, and even married is harder nowadays, so they think to themselves "unless I happen to get lucky with this roll, I am not going to live a decent life" so they prefer gambling?

Because let's be real, they are not just out there gambling for fun, sure there must be some like that, but they are mostly gambling because previous generations screwed the economy so badly and let the wealth gap be so huge that they are simply just gambling to have a slight chance of being lucky and have a decent life.

At this point, they think that gambling and getting lucky is the only way they could live comfortable life, because hard work won't get them anywhere.

That is because parents busy to works and search for money for their family. Parents forget that they have children that start to grow up and needs their attention to guide their children not to do something wrong. Parental care are necessary for their children because teenager have a high curiosity and will search for what they wants to knows. Parents that busy with their works are rarely to talk or discuss with their children and lets their children decides everything without any guidance from parents. Once their children playing gambling and finds that gambling gives excitements to them, children will not trying to do other things because their focus will be for the gambling games. The internet gives the things that they wants easily so that children can finds what they wants to looking for.