Topic: Have you consider yourself, the family and gambling? - page 8. (Read 1246 times)

1. As much as possible, i wont be considering on letting my children to play gambling. We do know the risks as parents.
2. I dont need to quit since im not that addicted. I can play and stop anytime i want and this do signifies that you are in control.
3. Gambling is for leisure and if you do play just for the sake of fun then there would really be moments that you do have that kind of contentment.
4. Doesnt matter, things that getting involved with would always falls down into someones interest and preference.

Each person does have their own perspectives in life and they would really be acting according into it. This is why
you cant really be able to tell on whats up into the mind of a certain person.

This is a good set of questions that it'seasy to ask but it seems difficult to answer and give an explanation. Kidding aside, Here's my answer from my own perception.

1. As an asian, Even if the kids are of legal age, I will not allow them to gamble. It is quite difficult to stop them, especially if our kids meet different people who engage in gambling. As a parent, I will not let my children grow up unaware of this matter, especially now that everyone is focused on social media and regardless of the ads that appear, I would rather be the one to explain when they are curious what is gambling, it's better that they know it from me than other people.

2. at what age? I don't know, I'm not really into gambling, I only do it when I have free time, I don't want to ruin my image as a responsible gambler.

3. Yes, that was when I won huge amount in slot games in just 2 spin, I thought I'm such a lucky person that day and It's very satisfying and one of achievments to me because in just 2 spin, I hit the large prize, I cannot explain the excitement that I felt that day.

4.Nope, because up until now I am still learning how to balance my gambling activity and my own life. I don't want to grow old with regrets.

First and foremost, gambling is reserved for person's at the age of 18 and if the child is of this age he or she must be considered as an adult!

But for an 18year old to be gambling, as a parent you need to be worried because when did he get hooked and how are they funding their gaming account...if you can answer all this without your name fitting the equation then I wouldn't worry much but would advise the child on how to go about it responsibly and it's negative effects without sugar coating anything.

It's not about your age, things just happen AFAIK!!!


Not everyday should be a losing day, we have times when we win big and bad days when we lose hard it's just a game of luck...

Life is not about living it with regrets, we are already here and can't go back in time... otherwise I think I found myself gambling because of my love for sports otherwise if I didn't like sport maybe I wouldn't have known about gambling 

I'd probably allow him or her to gamble once they hit legal age, which is 21. Of course, before I let them wander off, I'd like to teach them a few important lessons about gambling, and make sure that this is what they always think of before making a bet.


Probably sooner than expected. At this point in time, other hobbies have taken over my interest in gambling, and right now I'm off the grid and haven't bet on anything for more than 3 weeks. There is that thought of gambling once I got home but eh, most of the time it's just me enjoying what I do now compared to winning something in gambling.


In all honesty, I've never won anything extremely big during my time in gambling. Winning 1 btc a few years back when it's priced at $300 is something I would say as my greatest achievement in gambling. It didn't really give a good impact to me, but hey, it still made me a good memory.


Probably my interest in sports. If I weren't into gambling, I wouldn't have checked F1 a lot, peeped into baseball, or even dare watch a whole basketball match in the NBA. Apart from that is my tendency to use odds in almost every decision making that I do which actually helps to come up with a result that does not make me a loser in the end.

1. I will not allow my child to start gambling, whether he is an adult or not because gambling can make him forget to control his emotions and control.
2. I don't know when I will stop gambling but I hope I can stop it.
3. If what you mean by the level of satisfaction here is enjoying gambling as entertainment, I think I have experienced that, and the impact is not too bad for me. I realize that gambling is just entertainment so I don't need to be too serious about gambling and just do it in moderation.
4. I don't think I would miss anything if I weren't a gambler. Besides, there are still many other activities that I can do to fill my free time.

I stand on the same principle with you. None of my children would, as much as they are still under my care, be allowed to gamble. And when they come of age, I need to inform them on what gambling is and how it can affect their income. And I'll be teaching my children a lot of emotional control, decision-making practices and concepts, so that whenever they are taking a decision, they're able to x-ray it first to know the nitty-gritty of what they are going into before they begin.

Knowing fully well how addictive gambling is, I would try as much as possible not to allow them to be inclined with it. So, I would, while teaching them what gambling is, focus more on the negative aspect of it, rather than the gains that people get from it, which are like, for some people, 10% of their engagement in gambling, or even 5% for some people, or some 20% etc. I would let them know of the dangers that are in gambling, and to also inform them that they must be ready to lose unexpectedly, if they must join gambling.

1. No, my child is still under 4th, not sure if he is growing until he can find and get his own job and has his own salary. but I will always advise them to use and manage his money wisely.
2. I really hope as soon as  possible
3. Not yet, just ordinary and no one has had a jackpot or super satisfying results. because it's just gambling.
4. I don't know, because the problem is I'm already here. The important thing is to stay controlled and not get addicted.

I honestly don't want my son to get involved in gambling even though he will know the consequences but still as a father wants him to know how the risk of losing a lot of money here, maybe as much as possible will prohibit it.

Don't know when to stop, as long as it can still be controlled well and the fun is always there then gambling will never stop, but once I gamble I will never show it to my child except on this forum to continue discussing it.

The level of satisfaction gambling measures from the pleasure if this is not there then gambling will feel more bland, satisfaction is always immeasurable because when you have started to win big as satisfaction it always wants to win high again.

1. You gamble everyday. Walking down the street a vehicle could crash into you, Same if driving. Severe weather may come and blow you away. Random robbery while you're out shopping or whatever. So kids are gambling from day 1 IMO.

2. People stop gambling when they die. Whatever age that may be.

3. Anytime I win more then I start with I am happy.

4. Nope

So my answers to questions 1 and 2 are obviously not what you were looking for, but true none the same.

I will only answer the first question which is a categorical no,absolutely no as I know the dangers of gambling and I don't want my child to go through the pain that I have gotten when I was addicted to gambling not long ago in 2019-2020.The second question answer I am afraid that there is only one answer to this and that is every vice gets out when our spirit gets out meaning when we die,so I don't think for anyone that there is the possibility of quitting gambling forever in this life although many people may quit gambling for quite a long time I guarantee no one of them has ever achieved to quit gambling once they were deep down with it.The question 3 and 4 are not relevant to me at all.

The age of accountability is 18 years and i believe that is the age i will allow my child his free will. If he chooses to gambling that is his choice. I only owe me some advice based on my gambling experience.

Kind of hard to answer this because i don't think i may quit gambling. Currently i don't have that in mind and if i did there is no specific age just anytime the conviction comes for me to quit i will.

Cumulatively my winnings are more compared to my losses. So sure, i think i have made some good progress in as much am a gambler i have achieved more or equal to what people who don't gamble had. It doesn't affect me anyway. OP

No i don't think say. Some goals i set for me most have been achieved and i believe more will. I don't let gambling take the best of me.

Gambling is a thing of interest and if the child have interest in gambling, whatever may be they motives it still has to do with a lot of training so it better to train them and letting them know the dangers that involved in gambling, this way they will have early understanding of what they are doing and how far they intend to go about it, but if you wait for so long before you teach your kids about gambling, they may learn about if from outside and this time this learning comes with a lot of regret since such learning comes with loads of negative effects.

Some say this, when we are in a place that is not good then our children should never be involved there. I mean gambling will have bad consequences when people involved in it are unable to control it so that it will worsen financial conditions.

I never allow my children to gamble ever, but we never know how when they grow up they will be involved with gambling. At least we provide an understanding of gambling so that they have an idea of the effects of gambling.

I started gambling when I was in college, initially betting on poker, football and the lottery. Until now I have never had a big win at gambling because maybe I only gambled with a small budget, so the level of satisfaction was only limited to enjoying small wins.

I would like to think that I would never gamble in front of my kids.

Of course there are certain traditions that might make it permissible. For example before new year's even in Greece they say it brings good luck to do certain sinful things like play gambling card games, swear and make sexual jokes and satire. But that's only 2 hours out of a whole year or something.

So if someone has a family, it's too much of an influence to be doing something in front of your kids constantly and if we're talking about gambling, better avoid it altogether. Children need not familiarize themselves with gambling especially through their parents. If they do so on their own accord, a parent can teach them about the bad things in gambling so they are more aware, as well of the statistical impossibility to win all the time in spite of what gambling promotion might have new gamblers believing.

Why do I have to tell my children to start gambling when they get to a particular age, no matter the age which they are, I will never ask them to gamble, when they get to a particular age, and I notice that they have started gambling, all what I will do is to tell them about gambling, they should stay away from addiction, I will tell them how gambling addiction can ruin their lives, so they should stay away from addiction.

Why do I even have to quit gamble, I gamble for fun, and when am bored, so gambling is what will always keep me busy whenever am getting old, because I will have retired from most of the things am doing, I will just be at home doing nothing.

play me start with the points... actually a normal circumstances a child is supposed to involve itself in gambling at age of 18 years to 20 years that is the normal age that is been approved by government that a child supposed to start a gambling so I believe that we supposed to not allow our children to gamble from 15 to 16 years it is totally wrong from my own understanding.

Point two... gambling is all about the determination you can only free to gamble when you know that you have not benefiting gambling and when you feel that you are age enough not to participate in gambling so gambling does not have a duration for you to quit from a gambling as a gambler.

Point three... some people does not like to state out what they have achieved in gambling but they like to bring up what they lose in gambling to the air so we have different people who testify of making money through gambling and they also gambling some people also complained of losing whatever they have through a gambling.

Point four.. that is an individual consignment because we don't know what you can miss out when you are not a gambler some people always said that since they are not a gambler there are no losing anything so based that note it is a personal testimony or being a gambler or not

From my observations, I think that there is always a certain stage when a gambler will reach and he will limits the way he is spending money on gambles, when you as a gambler have becomes a family man or woman you will also have a lot of things to take care of, so you won't be spending money all the time on gambles.
From what you have mentioned, I think they are things that will make you to limit your gambling habits. Allowing our children to gamble is not a normal things because as you are the leader of a home gamble is not something you should consider as fun for children even if they are up to the age of gambling, that's why many parents don't allow their children to know wether they are gambling or not so the children will not learn it from them.
Also, the age of quitting gamble is always on everyone's mind, you can try to stop gamble when you are old enough to quit it, and you shouldn't wait for your age to go high before quitting when you know you aren't gaining anything from gamble except losing.
However, the only thing one should consider as achievement in gamble is when you have win a big amount of money and you invested it on somewhere that will bring more money to your pocket, because if even when you win big money and you didn't invest it on anything, you will lose them back go the casino.
I don't think so mate, there are important things and good things one would like to own outside gambling, their are many things that can satisfy you even you want fun and many of them are not so risky as gambling.

I don't think gambling's a good thing for kids, no matter how old they are.  But I guess when he's old enough to decide for himself and has his own money to spend, itll be his call.  I wouldn't want to bankroll his betting, that's for sure.


Probably never.


No. Don't get me wrong, a little game here and there, just for fun ain't an issue.  but if its real, sticking happiness you want, gambling likely won't cut it.


No. I can't think of anything. However, I'm not addicted to gambling.

From being years in gambling industry, I never thought of quitting especially when I managed to learn how to control myself with the amount I am betting. I have experienced winning 10x of my bankroll which was my biggest so far but at least I am not in huge loss, which I am most thankful of. And if it is allowing my child or not to gamble, one thing is for sure, I won't be the one to teach them of such activity 'coz it is for them to discover and know why and what's to avoid in gambling. Teaching them would be nonsense if they are seeing you gamble. This is another reason why you shouldn't show them the things you don't want them to be curious of. If it is with the things I might have probably missed from gambling then that's saving for sure. Losing is part of the game and if you regret it then you should not continue gambling afterwards.

Then don't reply, unless it's compulsive behavior in your case and you feel obliged to write something.

I've noticed there was a lot of threads moved to off-topic lately, a bit like the mod woke up and decided to do some Spring cleaning

To answer the question, never. I'll try to discourage it at any age, but I won't be able to decide for my child after a certain age.
There's no age at which I'll accept it, but as long as it's under control and there's no borrowing money to play, I won't make a big deal out of it.