Topic: Gambling by financial dependents. - page 24. (Read 4204 times)

I agree, there is no problem if a person indulge himself in pleasure as long as the money he spent is from his own hard works.  But if he is still dependent on his parents, he should value the money he received and just like what the earlier replies stated, valuing it and spending it wisely is the best respect a financial dependent can do to the person who gives him the money.

Regardless of age, if he is still financially dependent, this person should avoid spending the money he received to luxurious stuff, instead he must saved them so that he can have money when time comes the person who is supporting him experience hardship and unable to continue to support this financial dependent person.

The young people need of entertainment at the young age after suffering lot due to their family pressure.Most of the young people after marriage suffering a lot,because the new one will share his income.Before he only spend on his family.Now a days earning money is not the easy task,it take huge time.It's very hard to earn now a days,So the young people should target the entertainment along with the job.The travel is also best one for the entertainment for the young people,it will give them the moral support to stay away from all the depression.The gambling is the entertainment which gives the money along with entertainment.

It's really hard, to be honest when it comes to self-discipline unless you already have it as a person or you've learned it through the course of your life but if you don't have it when you engage in such kinds of entertainment, then you are just saying that you are going to the ocean hoping for not getting wet which is we know that's impossible. We know that in gambling most of those who played without thinking of what is tomorrow in their life mostly ended their decision when they lost it all some of them realized it and quit thinking gambling was not for them and some stayed hoping to get back what they have lost.

I would advise this young man to spend on entertainment the money that he earned himself. In my opinion, there is no problem that he was interested in gambling, it could be something else (sex, travel or whatever) everything costs money. But it's one thing to spend easy money, and another to spend your hard earned money. If he started working on his own, perhaps he would think more about how to increase his income and not about how to spend it. And thus many optional entertainments would become less interesting to him.

Gambling is not a good thing for young people, and it is definitely not like playing video games because video games might be addictive but they are not like gambling where you have to spend money every time you gamble and when you don't have that, you start looking around for ways that you can use to get some money, which is not the case with video games which children can play whenever they want if they have time and they can always stop doing that.

We all know that gambling addiction is not similar to the addiction children have to play video games. However, excess of anything is bad, even playing a lot of video games is a bad thing for children. So, gambling for young people can be considered a bad thing for sure.

That will humble and teach him a big lesson that he should spend his money wisely and this will also stop him from gambling. But if he gambles again then another punishment that shall be made if don't learn the lesson. This is more of parenting issue anymore and that's why the mother should be more strict and go hard on his kid before that kid develops a habit of spending not his own money on gambling. Because when he grows up, worse thing could happen if he's not going to be corrected while he can still be.

Yeah right, you can only say that a person is well disciplined in his own money if he has a money and he has that kind of mindset to not really spend that money on gambling. If he only gamble because he just want to have fun then it is good because  that is why gambling is being created for that thing. I just hope he can still manage his desire in gambling so he will not be addicted sooner or later.

The mentality of young people is still not convincing. Maybe for a while he was seen as being in charge of what was at stake in gambling. But you already know that cases of gambling addiction do not know old or young, even experienced gamblers will do unexpected things just to be able to gamble. We don't know without being able to witness the gambling activity firsthand because from there we can judge how aggressive and uncontrollable a person's emotions are while gambling. Regardless of his intentions at a young age, he should be more able to weigh association because usually this is contaminated with gambling from the surrounding environment.

Yes, for me someone who is still 18 is still not very mature, so it sounds strange if he has started gambling and making money, even though we know that gambling is not a place to make money, let alone get riches quickly, so I think he is too. you should focus on raising money to continue higher education to get a more decent job in the future.

I wonder why young people nowadays are so proud of getting money from gambling even though it is from their work money, even though I gamble also use my salary money set aside but at least I know that gambling is just for fun, worried that young people like that are carried away by the emotions of playing too deep to get out of control in the long term and eventually become an addict.

Personally I think the main priority of the son is to concentrate on his studies for now thus the mother has the main role of counseling him because of the dangers of being a gambling addict how it going to affect his academic performances it's good to hear that his mother is ready taking care her son financial obligations, I don't see how the son can balance gambling activities beside his studies, definitely he has to leave one for another one thus leave gambling to face his studies squarely.

I commend you for taking your time to question him about his gambling activities and based on your judgement he is a responsible gambler, however you should let him know that prioritizing gambling instead of his studies will have great consequences that is why his mother is worried, he should complete his course of studies first thereafter he will have enough time to gamble  as well working this wouldn't allow his mother to have any cause to worry about him.again.

What you're describing is a disaster waiting to happen! Youth gambling? That's opposite sportspeople's discipline and dedication. Instead of practicing hard, putting in the hours, and striving for perfection, they're gambling?

They dump money for education and basic needs into the gambling pit? You're telling me people are creating businesses in this mess? If they have the gambling bug, those enterprises will collapse. Hard.

The internet makes it easy? Yes, it is! It made my success easy, though. All about choices. Let's be honest - if kids can't resist gambling, how will they handle real-world challenges? Socialization and education may help, but I'm not optimistic.

You are right by just having a conversation you cannot ascertain that this child is a responsible gambler. Children are know to lie when caught and I believe this child is doing the same thing. If he continues to keep on lying like this he would end up in bad state. I think strict action is needed to discipline this child and for that you need to stop having conversation and ask questions. Being 18 year old does give him the right to gamble but he do need to understand that his mum is all he has and if becomes addicted to gambling it won't be easy to come out of it. Leaving his mum devasted and destroyed.

I do not agree if the child is said to be a responsible gambler just because he gambles when he has money or has savings, in my opinion it is still excessive gambling in gambling, responsible gamblers are those who do it regularly in terms of money, and he only set aside a little money to gamble from the salary or income he gets from his job, plus he is still 18 years old, maybe he doesn't force him to gamble today when he doesn't have money, but we don't know a year later if he gambles illegally massive when the age of maturity is still unstable, his character will become a gambler in life.

At this age a gambler cannot be identified unless he reveals the matter himself because a gambler is getting all kinds of benefits from sitting at home. If a gambler realizes on his own that he may be addicted or has pushed himself into a hostile environment from which he needs a way out, he will find a way to control himself there if he can explain addiction well to those gamblers. We should remember that no gambler can be forced to turn away. If they are adults then definitely they can come back by realizing these things.

Then every action should be taken by the mother to stop the boy from gambling. If the boy continues and time comes when he has nothing with him again, then he might end up doing illegal things just to make money to continue gambling. The mother shouldn’t just keep quiet and be looking at him. I won’t be surprised if he ends up using his school fees to gamble. We have seen that kind of thread on the forum here before. The money misplaced by your relatives might not have been stolen by the boy, but since they know he's a gambler, they will think the money was stolen by him just to gamble. I don’t know if the boy is addicted to gambling or not, but addicted gamblers do crazy things just to get money to gamble.

The boy might be telling the truth, he might not have stolen from his mom before, but what will happen in the future? He might not have started, but he might end up doing it in the future. Also, the boy might not be telling the truth, he might have been stealing from his mom, and he won’t want to confess, but all you have to do is talk to him about stopping gambling.

Since the boy is still in school and he depends on the money he receives from family members for survival, he should stop gambling. Whenever he starts working and earning, he can start enjoying gambling, and we all know that it’s kind of easy for him to get addicted to gambling because he is still a child, especially if he is really desperate to make money.

I don't understand how you can include gambling to be a part of alcohol, sex and drugs because all of them are bad for young people. Gambling isn't bad as long as that young people have money to afford to lose either it's from their saving, freelancing, or part time job.

Gambling is should used to be an entertainment, similar like how most of young people are playing video games because it's fun.

With all their high curiosity, young people will try something they have never done, including gambling, alcohol, sex, and drugs. But that won't happen to young people who can control themselves, which they learned from a young age and have been given understanding by their parents so they won't do things they might not be allowed to do at their age. And when there are young people who have started gambling, this is worth asking, where did they get to know about gambling and since when did they start gambling.

His parents must convince him that gambling is not good for him mentally and financially and give him the understanding to have other activities to keep him busy. Usually, if young people already have a positive activity, they will try to keep doing these positive things and avoid negative things that can ruin their schedule.

Let's probably give them the benefit of the doubt, the kid might be pretty knowledgeable for his age, and it's "addiction" that's a bad thing, gambling? Not necessarily. The mother can even help in monitoring so that the kid can be kept properly under control. While it may seem like too controlling, hey what can they do, the kids, well, a kid. I myself started gambling at around 18? 19, and I didn't really have issues. Granted I never continued for like, 4 years (my entire college or so) and only came back to gambling after that.

That's a very concerning situation. Young people can get addicted to anything very easily (alcohol, smoking, drugs, gambling...) and they are stubborn as fuck too. Sometimes they are so unwise and dumb, they think they know everything and that's a recipe for a disaster. She should talk to her son first imo. She should explain why getting addicted to gambling is a bad thing and maybe, this teenager will understand her. There is a small chance but sometimes talking works. Maybe your nephew didn't steal yet but if the situation advances, you'll never know what will happen in the future.

Based on your story, I would argue that children are not necessarily responsible gamblers because we as mothers, for example, are not fully aware of what our children do on a day-to-day basis. conversely, today's youth are more likely to be close to their circle of friends, he might be able to trick his parents into playing gambling, if only parents knew that might be the only good way to advise and talk to children, because in my opinion someone who already likes or is addicted to gambling they will not think twice about spending their money, even if it was earned the right way or the wrong way. My advice is to teach the child well how to manage money properly so that in the future the child can make his own money with things that are useful and not self-defeating.