Topic: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens - page 20. (Read 3514 times)

Usually it is really that being taught in Values education or something in Social studies as far as i remember since this one had been mentioned wayback in college. So far in highschool and elementary this one hadnt been taught. As we do see that technology does really grow even more better and more bigger on which it is really that almost changing on everything specially when it comes to accessibility on which everything could really be that almost be known with a few taps on your own mobile phone or any device as long it does have that internet on which simply means that it would really be that easy to engaged or access things.
This is why on the moment that you would really be tending to dive into something then you could really be that easily do it, this is why even into those people who are still young would be having that probability on having that kind of engagement on which it is one of the cons of it. So parenting would really be something that relevant.

We have a new generation and breed of children that call themselves "Gen Zs"; The reality we are facing today with our kids is way different from the 1990's ... The Internet has created a huge influence on them so much that they'd know so many things we don't.

Secondly, peer influence creates yet again, another impossible path to leap -- so many kids have been bullied and stalked for not following any trend that comes forth. When this happens, since a kid is susceptible to opposition, they may decide to follow suit. It's definitely not gonna end well for them
So the best solution would be sending out stricter measures on casinos over the regulation of their customers. If they're not up to 18, report them!!
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Anyone would get enticed immediately they learn about making money it.

Gambling has reached a stage where it should be taught as formal education and parenting to avoid gambling, then I think the government has to ban gambling, it's like saying cigeratte increases lung infection problem and we advice children to avoid it but because we can't let go of those sweet taxes, we should put 'smokers are reliable to die young', that's bullshit because we all can see how young and adult smoke like their live depend on it because of that same addiction.

It's simple, if the government is trying to protect its people from something and education is needed, at that point they need to simply ban it and make sure all the companies are dissolved. However, I think parental guidance is more important than anything when it comes to restriction.

I'm not totally against the parents on this matter, since I'm not on their skin to know for real how hard it is to deal with their sons. In some cases parents really have to give up on their sons, so maybe life can teach them something. Too much attention and protection can have a harmful effect for some individuals. Instead of seeing that as something good and benefical, they just sabotage themselves, going against their parents, deciding to stay by the side of wrong and dangerous influences from "friends".

And the more parents make effort to help their sons, more distant and rageful these teenagers become. It's a delicate situation to deal with... Maybe these teenagers have to lose in order to learn something and get aware their parents were right all the time, and that they should get distance from such "friends" who don't add anything productive and uplifting to their existence. Probably everyone here have already seen cases like this for real, being gambling practice involved on the situation or another practices such as drugs, alcohol, crimes and so on.

Yes, the bad influence that they are part of and mostly when these teenagers aren't patronage by their parents. They go in a wrong circle that teaches them like this, how to gamble.

And I think even with the patronage of their parents, if they're hard headed teenagers, they'd still fall into the same activities like in gambling and as you've said, into alcohol and other activities they think are cool to do when they're at that age.

I reckon but there are teenagers that are unstoppable and parents have just given up supervising them.

Apart from education, there must be humane control so that children do not feel pressured and do not think their parents are putting too much pressure. Today's children are difficult to manage if they don't use more humane methods and parents usually ignore this condition, making children even more stressed and uncomfortable with that kind of upbringing. In the end, they did not listen to the education, but instead became more curious to learn about these activities because they were influenced by curiosity.

Try discussing how psychologists treat cases of people addicted to gambling and drugs. They take a more humanistic emotional approach so that those who are addicted feel touched and will try to encourage themselves to recover from addiction. This is what parents need to do so that children can become more accustomed to this condition.

Education can helps children to avoids the negative impacts that can happens to them. At least, they will knows what happens to them if they do that so they must not doing that things before something bad happens. Education about gambling in schools is necessary to helps them knows about the danger of playing gambling which is not many children knows. When they knows about the danger, they will not trying to playing gambling because they will see something bad to their lives and that can makes their parents in trouble, not just for that children. But schools must takes their portion to always reminds students not to playing gambling and together with parents, they can guards students to stay away from gambling. Students will understand about the risks so they don't wants to takes the risks because that can makes them addiction to gambling.

Exactly, because a person's personality depends on how their environment is as a child, on the other hand I understand that both parents must want the best for their children where of course they direct a child to positive things but it is a fact that sometimes a child grows up with various influences that are sometimes negative if the parents cannot take care and direct them to positive things well. On the other hand, I do not agree if a child is given education about the dangers of gambling since they are still young because what is feared is that there is still a possibility for them to feel curious about how gambling actually is and maybe they try to access gambling unknowingly, which as we know that a child who is still underage has a high curiosity in him.

So in my opinion there is nothing better than not exposing them to gambling, and it is better to keep or monitor them along with avoiding various things that can make them reach gambling, such as excessive use of social media that allows them to see promotions carried out by some of the big casinos that we often see on the internet lately.

It's an unending problem to be honest. As long as these teens are getting their interest with gambling activities then they will continue engaging into it. What's more alarming is with streamers and influencers who promote this kind of activity. I think there's no need for a proof to the idea that they're a big part of encouragement to gambling concerning teens. Same reason why I support KYC Procedures on trusted platforms to at least lessen, if not totally stop, their access to gambling sites.
We're on this for years already but the situation just keep on getting worse generation after generation. There are lots of warnings and disclaimers about how bad gambling habits could get but these teenagers care nothing less but to be in this industry because they are having high hopes of earning big through their luck.

If the parents are materialistic and always praise money, they can say that. The real truth is still or is that not all revolve around money. Investing seems not fit yet for a kid but savings may be, because it is only easy to do.

I can only believe when they say that ' they don't know what they are doing 'if we are talking about the kids but if they are already a teen, then that is not believable anymore because they are grown-ups already and they already have a hair in their pubic areas Xd. Usually the ones who have this alibi are the people who are already addicted but its funny if they use it to try and escape their problems or consequences because it won't work as they wish.

All education that can reduce the negative impacts on children both now and as adults should be given from an early age, so that they can have a good foundation about gambling so that even though later they will gamble, they will become responsible gamblers because they understand the bad risks that will be obtained if they gamble without responsibility, but parents at home should teach about this too, not just rely on the school, so education about gambling is currently as important as education about sex.

Teens gambling is on the increase because online casinos or betting apps are free for them to reach and when they launches this apps it only ask them if you're up to 18 years or not and certainly they will choose 18 if they are below that age hence serious restrictions on online gambling casinos to prevent teens from gambling.

In my school days just a few years back or 2 years precisely when I was in the secondary educations I have witnessed my friends fight over Messi and Ronaldo's case and that gave me concerns but since I wasn't into football I usually snobs this issues but where I get worried is when they get reported to the head teachers who are males especially, this teachers instead of punishing the students they go ahead to analyse the difference between Messi and Ronaldo for the fighters making the students feel they are okay woth fighting over gambling related stuffs.

And as a result of this some gambled in classes even when lectures are going on but it seems right in their eyes because nobody is interested in cautioning them so if their is an implementation to prevent gambling in the educational system as below then it's very much welcomed.

Yes of course I agree with that, secondary educations are the ground where you build a reasonable citizen or student because at that point they tend to be aware of their actions gradually.

Teenagers have a very vulnerable psyche, and if you introduce some strict bans on visiting online casinos, then these bans will lead to the opposite. A teenager, thinking that he is an adult, will do the opposite. Therefore, the pedagogy of such relationships with a teenager should be associated with parents and school. I come from a family where non-gambling interests are very well represented, and examples of what gambling can lead to at a young age. A teenager copies everything he sees nearby. If you live a healthy and correct life, having full contact and trust with your child, then in the future he is unlikely to become a victim of addiction to something harmful. As for the Internet, the Internet is a trap for lonely people. The more real friends and live communication you have offline, the less craving you will have for games and everything else on the Internet.

I totally agree with what you said. I want to share something with you. I think every country should include a book called Gambling in their textbooks. There will be only the harmful effects of the world's dreaded virus called Gambling. And detailing the solution of how a student or a person can come back to normal life from an addiction. Thus it is possible to save a young nation from the destructive side of gambling.

What you say is very true, but you have to start from something, from a fundamental principle, a teenager at this stage of life, some already have a clear idea of what they are going to be, and they have the intention of doing things, like They plan, it is their responsibility, they are preparing themselves so that they can be good men and women and what they can contribute to the world, however if they let themselves be led down wrong paths, that is something that they decide, the casino game, the games casino, Sports bets are options that they have to win money, but they also know that they can lose, That is why games of chance are not suitable for minors, and that is why they will never be accepted in casinos, because some teenagers do not even know what what do they want

Over the years, the focus has been on preventing young people from getting involved in gambling activities but the whole approach used so far is not yielding any result, rather we keep getting cases of young people getting stuck with gambling problems. Whether you prevent them from gambling now, they will still learn it later, but our only concern is them learning it the wrong way.

These teens should be taught a healthy gambling lifestyle instead, this way we will be sure these kids are safe even if they gamble. I have come to realize that most young people who get into trouble do things out of curiosity in secret and without proper guidance because adults  who are supposed to guide them, prevented them from doing so. If a teen wants to gamble badly, let them gamble but teach them how to gamble responsibly.

Getting these people educated about the risks and losses of gambling could be a good option, but still we can’t expect that everyone will come to avoid gambling now that they know already that gambling is not designed to grow their money but will only make their money grow less until they lose everything they have. People, most particularly teens are most likely hard headed until they prove to theirselves that gambling will not bring any good in the end.

However, I guess the best option so that teens will not be tempted to gamble is to banned online gambling at all. I believe a lot would not agree to this but I can see this is possible especially if the government insist of doing it for the sake of the minors not falling into gambling addiction.

It's not really about the  how ease it is to download the gambling apps even if they put some hurdles any interested person in gamble will find his/her way at all cost. One thing that I see that is attracting more and more teens to gambling in our society today is due to their high consciousness and awareness about money and this makes them keen to easily get interested to engage into anything that promises to offer money, and that's what gambling does, it makes you believe you could seamlessly make some cash from it with just sheer predictions and catching fun.

Maybe when parents and every other person start shaping a different mentality into  their child and wards about how they perceive money they will be guided against getting involved in just anything just to make money.

We have been so crafted to believe that money is just everything nowadays, so how do we not expect the teens not to get involved in gambling growing up with these ideas. To gamble you don't need any qualifications, skills, experience neither will you go through any interview, and this makes it a great option for nay teen looking for money to take his or her chances in order to get that bicycle or video game he or she needs.
 
Implementing a gambling prevention education won't make that sort of positive change as many will be thinking it to achieve. The truth is that morals and ethics are quickly depleting among many things we teach our kids these days, and this makes them unable to know the boundary between adult activities from those of kids. They just literally want to try everything they can lay hands on.

Yes and I think one of the reasons is that the object of victory in gambling is money which everyone needs money and most gamblers come because they see that other people managed to win big without them knowing what that person has gone through to be able to win, meaning that we cannot close our eyes that money is everything in life and that may be one of the reasons why people still come to gamble even though they have heard education about the dangers of gambling if it is used as a place to earn income. In addition, as you said, most people now prefer to spend most of their time playing on the internet while most online casinos make the internet their biggest promotion site so it's only natural that in the end many teenagers fall into it intentionally or not.

Several groups will be totally against this one and it will not be easy to implement it.
Though I support this initiative because many are really exposed in gambling at a very young age and its alarming. In my country alone, many are being encourage to gamble by the social media influencers as they have this promotion at the end of their video. If the government really want to stop this, then they should start to strictly implement the policy.