Topic: Have you consider yourself, the family and gambling? - page 9. (Read 1451 times)

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.

1. As long as the child can earn his own money, the father will allow him to gamble as a freedom given to the child.

2. Not sure. However, the intention to stop is always there, it's just that we don't know when this will be done because until now we are still enjoying gambling.

3. The level of positive satisfaction does not exist, but I myself consider that when gambling can be disciplined and responsible, it is already a satisfaction.

4. Will not miss something even though I am not a gambler for example.

In a nutshell, gambling is a thing of choice and something that people get to engage in due to friend influence and peer pressure. My dad and his dad were not gamblers, but how did I become one? Probably because my maternal granddad was a gambler. That's to say, the fact that I am a gambler doesn't necessarily mean that my kids will or must also become gamblers too, and even ifI get married today and start giving birth, I would not do any gambling-related activities around my kind, and they would be raised in a disciplined way where they would have to understand the age at which they are supposed to do certain things.

In the past, I gambled every day and for long hours, but this time around, other activities have become more of a priority to me because I have realized that I need to pay more attention to what can pay my bills consistently and put food on the table, and gambling is never that activity that can do that. Therefore, I have turned into an occasional gambler, and with the way I gamble now, I don't even know what age I would find it very interesting to gamble again, but I believe that as long as I keep watching sports activities, I will always continue to gamble. 

Gambling is for fun, and once a person has that urge to gamble and they do so, it will definitely satisfy them. What more do you want? Even the wining that comes with it is very satisfying all the time. Not being a gambler would make one miss out on the fun of gaming. 

1. Kids must not gamble, but once they become an adult it is up to them whether they gamble or not, and a parent cannot stop them even if they want to.
2. I do not see why a person that has their gambling under control must quit an activity they like just because they are getting older.
3. If by this you mean a win big enough to leave gambling behind, this has not happened to me.
4. Since my gambling is under control there is nothing I missed because of it.

Really i will not want to specify any age limits to when i introduced gambling to my kids, this is because even at 18th kids can still make alot of mistakes when it comes to gambling so it goes beyond age aspect to maturity and the rest.

Gambling for me does not have a quite limit and that is because i can still enjoy playing games even at old age or decides to quite at younger age if i discover that gambling is having negatively effect on me at any time.

Well at some point it has, I once clear some important financial obligations like paying of school fees from my gambling winnings and also getting alot of provisions whenever I win a good amount in gambling.

The thing is that, it has been hard to clearly separate the amount of loses vs the amount in winning,  because in as much as I won alot from gambling in the past, same way I lose also and that makes me not to be able to say whether or have won more or lose more but ultimately I enjoy every but of it since I don't gamble beyond how much I can afford.

1. At 18 when he has the adult right. But I will always advice him or her about how dangerous gambling can be.
2. I can not quit gambling. As long as my brain can function good, I will continue to gamble.
3.  It has bad impact on me when I was addicted. But I am no more addicted and I like to gamble.
4. Gambling is not a necessity.

I would not like to see my child gambling, talk more of allowing him to gamble, because he might not be able to have self control over his gambling activities.

I cannot say when I will the quit gamble, but if I am no longer enjoying the fun in gamble, then I will quit. If I am still enjoying it even at old age, I might not quit.

Gamble can not give you any satisfaction, because you will always want to gamble often, no matter how discipline you are. You will alway lose no matter how smart you think you are. Only people that won big and invested the money would ha e achieved a satisfying level.

Not really.

First of all am afraid of replying some post because moderator may move it to off topic. but I pray he doesn't. Lolz

If you ask me I will say 18 years and above. because that is the age of any body to become a full citizen of any country. By then he would have been knowledgeable to know good and bad, right and left. also have the understanding of decision making without a third party interference

Gambling does not have an actual age to quit. It is unpredictable I may say I will quit at 50years and may got disappointed along the line but I think before 55years I should have stop gambling.

Sincerly speaking gambling is a kind of game that is unpredictable. though I have not cashed out big time but have achieved the little I can with my previous winning.

I  don't think so. If i have cashed out big time I would have said so.

Lets take a look at the family aspect of everyone gambling and try to give our individual opinions concerning these questions i will like us to discuss from regarding how we are gambling and how that can affect the family for the benefits of those already having one and those that will soon be in the league of a family man, lets make it as simple as possible in giving our earnest contributions on our take from this following questions i have for us.

1. At what age will you allow your child to start gambling? that is if you will even allow for that at all?
2. At what age do you see yourself quit gambling? that is also if some of us are going to ever do so?
3. Ever since you have started gambling, have you ever achieve a satisfying level that makes you think it has good impact on you?
4. Would you have missed out on anything if you were not a gambler?