Topic: Gambling Education. - page 4. (Read 764 times)

The thing about education is helping young people to be aware of what gambling is and why it should be done with care and with a planned budget. If you are afraid that teaching the youth about gambling could lead them to gambling more, then you should be aware that there are thousands or even hundred of thousands of teens and children who gamble and do not even know.

Take a look at how the gaming industry has devolved this latest years, microtransactions and loot boxes in game-as-a-service products. A parent could easily buy a game to their toddler and introducing him/her to some practices which will likely make him/her prone to suffer gambling addiction in the future.  We should not be afraid of education.

Gambling, regardless if people will be educated or not, it will still remain a threat to an individual's life. That is the reason why it's better not to educate people about gambling because once they will learn on how to minimize the risk in gambling, then it will be easier for them to engage in gambling especially if their country is legalizing it. So the best decision is still to ban gambling so that addiction will be controlled, at least for a few individuals who have been relying into gambling for most of their lives.

Gambling abuses are the ones that result in gambling addiction, so I think you are still talking about the same thing because when we say someone is abusing something, that means they are using it in an abnormal manner. For example, when someone is gambling anytime or taking gambling as a source of income, these are people who abuse gambling, and definitely they will result in gambling addiction. So think about it: when you say someone is abusing gambling, that is what will result in gambling addiction.


If a country bans gambling, they automatically ban it, especially if they didn’t just ban it, but their religion is against gambling, so you can see that they won’t even think of introducing gambling education in that country, especially if it's full of Islamic religion or any other religion that goes against gambling, just like Saudi Arabia. Now, I believe there are gamblers there, but I don’t know if they ban it, but we all know they are almost Muslims. Are we going to say these people should include gambling education in their syllabus? Nah mate. If a country bans gambling, they automatically ban it, and nothing they will do, and any citizens who gamble and find out will be punished because they go against the country's law.

Gambling education, perhaps, will make the younger generation curious about why they should stay away from gambling or gamble with self-control. Because the younger generation's curiosity will be greater, they will try gambling with friends outside of school, and there is a possibility that they will try gambling at the casino. And with the Internet in many places, it makes it easier for them to know what it's like to gamble. And even though they have learned about self-control at school, they may still gamble because of their curiosity.

The younger generation will be easily tempted to gamble, which is almost similar to playing games, making them forget the time to stop. Perhaps it is a concern for some parties if there is a curriculum about gambling lessons so that gambling does not need to be taught in schools.

Your idea is really a brilliant one but then it is worth of note that gambling is usually stereotyped by many people due to the menace some persons has caused the society resulting from their un healthy gambling habits, all this stereotyping would make it almost not acceptable enough to be educated about because majority will vote against it thinking it would rather promote it.

But then civil society organizations can come in in situations as this they stand the better grounds to bring it to the society without been judged as they are know for education and being activists for the voiceless in the society. So if they bring it to the society so as to educate the society they will get the needed attention and some gambling sites can aswell join hands in sponsorship, that way people can see the fair side of gambling.

This education will make people understand gambling should be mostly for fun attaching less emotions and not using it as a job opportunity, it can Also be regulated and one can healthily gamble without getting to the point of addiction, I think of gambling sites come out with such campaign and sponsor the campaign they may win the heart of more gamblers over, they could introduce scheme that helps gamblers not get to the point of addiction these and many other innovative ways could be used for education.

Nah, I don't think it will help the citizens or the government curbing out gambling totally. It's either complete banning or not, just like that. And if I'm not mistaken, during my high school days, it was somewhat touch base as a subject as well. So it might have been included as part of the curriculum per se, like under the Health subject if I'm not mistaken.

So it's really hard to stop gambling, and that's why the government is doing their best but we can see with the advent of technologies, everyone can simply play with their mobile phones and get addicted.

In addition to providing gambling education, an elective course can be given as a gambling addiction course.I don't know if countries would actually want to do such a thing because there is an incredible circulation of money in the gambling sector.Some states levy taxes on them and these taxes actually benefit the states. In this way, no matter how much they try to prevent it, it is obvious that they earn an income from there. By inspecting the sites and fining some illegal sites in this way, they can also get money from there. A lesson and content can be taught that gambling is a bad addiction at a young age and that it is perhaps worse than addictions such as smoking and alcohol.

If you are gambling to the extent that you have to sell real assets for it then you know you are addicted to it and that means you have a challenge with it and therefore you need help. You are not suppose to gamble to such extent and you can only get to that stage because you may be relying on it for daily survival but if you gamble reasonably, even when you lose you see it as a game, fun and entertainment. This is part of the gambling education we all need as adults but not to introduce gambling to teenagers.

I agree with that making use of you common sense and applying your own design rules make you stay ahead of possible gambling addictions,  although is from the education that we discover our ability and the danger in gambling too much and how it affects our financial state and also is from the education that we learned that it better never to test the weight pf addictions because easier to avoid getting addicted that trying to quite addictions and that is why we most times campaign about the danger of gambling addictions.

This have helped a lot of us in the industry to be able to avoid becoming an addicts on the long run and how we could possibly shift our attention and limit our consistent gambling.

Anything can be abused, mhan.. don't try to be over sentimental next time  
That, in anycase would be a good idea too...but I believe the best way to solve a problem is to trace it to its root.. that would also mean sanctioning and banning 'em gambling industries globally...I mean, who would agree to that??.. almost every schools have introduced sex education compulsorily for 'em kids buh, has the rate of premature pregnancies/ abortion reduced?

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Once you've been shackled with gambling addiction then the longer it would really be having on you then the more severe your financial state would really become. This is why on the time that you had realized that

you are addicted then the wisest thing to be done is to stop completely or trying out to avoid as much as you could. Dont wait or come into a point that you would really be living or sleeping on the streets or had been leaved out by your own family just because of the thing that you have done. As much as possible if it wasnt still that severe then you should thrive on quitting it completely because gambling addiction could really wreck someones life so bad on which comes into a point that you would really be losing everything. If you dont like for this thing to happen then you should really be that sensible towards your actions
in correlation with gambling.

Making yourself get educated about gambling? It doesnt really need that certain extent because making use of your own common sense would or should really be enough.There are really
just that people who are really that hardheaded and would really be just making out such act on the time that they are on a tough situation and not minding while its still early.
Regrets do always come at the end and its always been the thing you would be encountering when things becomes messy.

Yes, that's right, people who can get out of gambling addiction are great people. Even though they have to pay a high price with their assets being sold to cover debts, if they are able to stop then they can start all over again. If they still gambling then chances are they can control his finances and doesn't want to be trapped in a cycle of gambling addiction. It's better to gamble for fun, use the lowest bets and don't think about getting rich from gambling and don't regret losing. If we have lost then stop and start doing activities as usual, this is effective for clearing our minds

Well I don't see gambling as addictive enough for me to be able to push someone into selling their personal belongings, because while gambling we have to apply caution and also be able to manage our spending during the cause of our gambling excitements this is the reason why most of the gambler who managed to escape the force of addictions will never go into to much spending while gambling because they already learn the lessons in the hard ways.

All the same, we have to make every possible attempt to keep up with gambling demands and be able to withhold ourselves from excessive gambling.

I consider this a worthy advice, however, most countries don't want to be associated with the term 'gambling' in any way. They consider it a disaster and yet they think totally discarding it from their 'allowables' is sufficient enough to keep their citizens off it.

You do understand that telling people to stay off a thing sounds like and indirect invite to that very thing. Most people have a curious lifestyle. When they indulge. Because there are not rules, they don't get informed of the ills and then they get addicted which is the same thing that was being avoided.

I concurr with your idea of gambling education even though it will be difficult to convince systems to adopt it.

it's a shame if there is even gambling education. then what about their money. Does that mean you should try it for gambling? but it's possible to provide education such as what the ingredients are or something else. What worries me about gambling seems to be that it is addictive and makes us even have to sell real assets for it all.

It has no two ways about it the fact that gambling is not sustainable way of earning interest that make it to become an unrecommended way of learning and there is no mechanism that is drafted for them so for now is best to avoid teaching our kids gambling not to even think of introducing it into school curriculums to be thought in school.

Even at adult level teaching gambling is a bad approach since every addualt should have a financial control and only take gambling as just a fun-seeking venture.

Gambling is prohibited in most countries and the government does not want to license casinos in any way. But a gambler cannot be held back so they will find any way to gamble. Moreover there are different gambling laws and penalties for each country, so anyone who doesn't follow them will be in danger. But almost all countries teach that gambling has negative consequences that can come into your life. On the other hand boys and girls of any age can gamble so there should be made aware first because an adult person can control his mind if he loses gambling, but young people cannot so they get involved in bad deeds.

In some countries, the gambling is prohibited because it is not allowed in their religion. This is not about doing moderate gambling, but you are bound not to gamble at all, by your religion. In this case, you cannot allow the school to teach about something which is not allowed by their religion.

Apart from that, i don't think that including gambling education in the academic syllabus would have any good effect. Even if gambling is allowed in a country, you would still not want that school and college going student get involved in gambling. If the subject is included in gambling, it means that we are asking our children to start moderate gambling, and this is not a right move.

A better way to deal with is through the parents. When a kid reaches a certain age and when parents think that he may get involved in gambling and may develop it as a habit, better tell him the pros and cons of gambling. This way is the most effective way to give a right education and knowledge about gambling.

Sex and gambling are totally different thing. You cannot live without having sex with your wife (as this is a natural need) but one can live without gambling, if the government thinks that gambling have more bad effects as compare to the good affects.

I disagree, it will only make people more into gambling. Minors often acquire behaviors through watching and imitating what they witness. Gambling education might unintentionally become a way for minors to participate in gambling with some attempting to do what they've learned even though the intention is not that way still it can triggered them too.