Topic: I think gambling is inbuilt, kids don't learn it anywhere, they do it! (Read 1621 times)

It does, but sometimes it works the other way round. Kids are so sick of all that gambling happening around them so they never gamble in their whole life. I personally know such examples. Kids don't always want to be like their parents, especially when their parents are not successful. Actually, it would be a big tragedy if someone won big money through gambling by chance and their kids would want to follow.

That is why we must be able to hide our gambling activities from children. We can go out of the house and go somewhere to gamble with our friends. It can prevent children from not knowing what we are doing and they also won't be curious about what we are doing because we never show them.

By gambling away from children, we can also feel calm and focused on gambling. Children also won't ask us many questions about gambling because they don't deserve to know yet. And as long as we can guide them well and correctly, they will not approach gambling and will avoid it if someone invites them to gamble.

I believe banning all gambling-related publicities and promotion both in the home and on TV,  will help reduce the level of gambling involvement or addictions within under age,  many at times,  the reason why there is a high rate of gambling addictions is because of the easy access to gambling promotion and information within the society and even some countries have become so lose and unregulated to the point that kids are even exposed to gambling right from the home and that is the worst thing that can happen,  for kids to learn about gambling from the parent,  so for sure,  the government is trying their best to regulate gambling in the society because of its negative influence on underage people.

But then before there could be any form of progress or success in that fight,  the family need to be carried along and become the starting point of the fight against underage gambling,  let parents be educated on the danger of exposing their kids to gambling at a young age and also what to do to prevent it from happening even if the parents are into gambling.

There are kids that will tell everything that they want to do, you are not sure with that but there can be a few of them that will voice out what gambling is and how did they do it and who's the person that influenced them in doing so. It's like an inspiration thing on them but because their minds are still young and naive, they don't know the implications of it is going to be bad if done continuously. That's why if you are someone who is surrounded by a lot of children in your family or neighborhood, you need to be careful with what you show them because they are going to do the same thing as what adults do that they see.

It starts with curiosity, with free gambling/gaming apps and then they want to go ahead with real action through betting real money. So, it's a process to them and you as a parent when you see that it's happening on them, you need to start yourself and check it out if they're going to the hardest part of it that you might not be able to accept instantly. And from there, you need to do all the necessary actions for them to avoid being addicted because as a parent, all you need to do is to make themselves comfortable doing other things and make them uncomfortable for the restricted activities like gambling.

Yes, because gambling does not only exist in casinos but also exists in real life, anyone indirectly and without realizing we have gambled in it, there are many examples of things like that, so children learn it in life and in their environment, it doesn't matter if they don't encounter it. and they also don't learn it from home because children will learn it from their environment and relationships.

I also see minors playing slot gambling and I see them learning it from the internet where the influencers they watch show how to play gambling and earn easy money from gambling. That's why today's children can learn about gambling anywhere, whether it's from their social environment. or the internet which is quite close to today's children, using their cellphones to gamble and at the same time using their pocket money from their parents.

Yes if we think deeply about gambling then any kind of betting is included in gambling. Even if a bet is made by friends to give a treat. When a kid grows up in such an environment from childhood, he will definitely turn to gambling. Although in gambling parlance it is said that gambling is where the financial condition will be changed by taking a bet. Here someone can lose and someone can win. When children bet on these small things it may not seem like a big deal at the time but after a certain period of time they will take big financial bets. If the government of a country takes a plan in advance, then those who are extremely underage can definitely be freed from gambling addiction to some extent.

Your view of the world is too black and white. There are always shades (and gambling, by the way, is not something inherently bad) and gambling is part of most games - even football, even chess.

For example, a football player has a choice: make a long shot (probability of scoring a goal is 10%) or trick the defender and improve own position, make a short shot or give an assist (the probability of this is 15%). Which is better to choose? To some extent, this is a gambling issue. Teams employ special analysts who give advice to players (through the coach) on how best to act so that the team receives the greatest benefit.

In chess it’s the same, people are not computers and cannot count complex positions to the end, so they have a choice: for example, go to a difficult option where you can either win or lose, or go to a calm continuation of the position and with a 75% chance of getting a draw. Depending on the tournament situation, they make a decision and this is also gambling to some extent.

Now let’s take computer games that most young people play - they are all filled with gambling (and this is even if we don’t remember about loot boxes). There are also a lot of choices there, like: beat boss A and with a 1% chance of getting the legendary item A1, or beat Boss B and with a 10% chance of getting the rare item B1. The decision of these picks is also gambling.

Therefore, if we return to the first post of the topic, we can say that gambling is not an innate quality, but simply a part of real life and you just need to be able to “work” with it correctly.

I agree that governments does not encourage minors to play gambling but advertisements and those that operates legally were the stepping stone as kids can see them in most social media platforms where in fact they can see tutorials. What kids see around will remain on their minds and will influence them until they grow as adults but this will also depends on how parents guidance with their children.

I look down on gambling because gambling has good side as well as bad side. I faced many problems for gambling. But now with gambling almost everyone from children to adults know about gambling. As days go by gambling.  People's interest is increasing. Minors are more inclined towards gambling. If minors are addicted to gambling, they don't seem to be able to do anything good in their life. Many people have lost their money and become destitute due to gambling.

Children are very curious and it is very difficult to hide anything from them, they will be interested in what you are doing, if you play in front of them, you will have to explain what you are doing and why.

And if you don’t want your children to know that you are a gambler, then don’t play at home and don’t gamble when you are near your children, learn to separate time for family and time for gambling.

The important thing is that family members do not show their gambling activities in front of the children. They must be able to hide it from children so that there is no curiosity from children who want to know what gambling is. Even though they can find out from their interactions with their friends, when adults or parents can explain and educate their children well, their children will not want to gamble with their friends. If parents in a family can educate their children and always remind them to maintain their relationships, their children will not try to do something that could have a bad impact on their lives.

I don't think there is child anywhere who would tell his parents that he likes to gamble because he doesn't want to get angry and maybe some strict action from his parents.
Indeed, the main factors in the development of gambling activities among children are the living environment and social interactions, so parents have an important role in determining which places their children are allowed to socialize.
Curiosity in child is easily influenced by things that may not be good out there and the spread of each activity among each child will also be very fast if most of them really like gambling.
If tell each other and show gambling activities to more friends, can be sure that all of the children in the group will be influenced and start trying to gamble.

This is crazy, children are starting to look for enjoyment from gambling which obviously requires money to play there.
But they got this amount of money from their parents and misused it for gambling, this is truly very unfortunate incident.
A child thinking is different and of course they have way of looking at things they do, including gambling, they will be wrong from the point of view of gambling.

Unexceptionally, gambling as a nature of stakes between two persons or more, both the Old and the young ones do have positive side effects to the society at the other way round and not literarily that they are focus to make profits out of it but it is something that a doubts has to be cleared where stakes in one or two ways are considered between both. It could be financial stakes, materialistic stake, verbal stakes, outdoors activities stakes or otherwise where the gambling ground is best recognized a challenge and who gets it right is termed the winner.

Gambling is a competition between more than one party that has a winners reward earning.
Such as OPs figures about the kids, this could be an area side of educationality or sociality that built them the ability on that such as the quiz answering competitions at school, the rewards sets by either an  organization, schools or any facilities that who ever either come the first position or who wins in one way or the other depending on the nature of the competition or providing the background with an expectation would be tagged the winner.
Even at home parents sets some series of daring amongst kids either to scare them or discipline them with a domestic terms, academy or social terms that who meets up with a specific action/position would earn a possible rewards. This competitive backgrounds could motivate or discipline the kids in one way or the other so basically as long there is stake termed to be called gamble, then I must say yes, of so, gambling has positive offer to the societies too because it is basically an activity of competitions and the games of dares with rewards to earn at its ends.

But however, parents who gambles still have to be mindful of how they discuss about any form of activities that either is a social competition or the bet (lottery) competitions with stakes because kids are quick to advancing knowledges either by what they hears or what are seen.

If a family member is a gambler, then the family members should explain him and stop him from gambling. And if the family can properly educate the children, then it does not seem that any child can indulge in any bad activities. Some times in the family  A child goes down a bad path due to lack of proper education. Sometimes it goes down a bad path due to hanging around with bad friends.

Every form of gambling could be risky, even the one done as a joke between two friends. The loser may feel it deep down, as not everyone thinks the same way. The ads all over social media introduce adults to gambling, but the kids, how then do they get to see those ads? If not in stadiums. Remember it starts gradually, and the kids can grow up practicing a higher kind of gambling. The right thing to do, is avoiding the slightest form of gambling. As the urge for gambling starts gradually. If not taken care of, the child when he gets to adulthood will get too involved in gambling.

As a parent or a guardian then we should really know on how to guide up our children on the right path.It cant be perfect or totally monitored but at least we are really that doing our part comparing
into those parents who doesnt really show some care at all.Somewhat it is really just that impossible that there would really be parents who wouldnt really be having care on what their children is dealing with. It is really just that there are things which we cant really be able to control and get rid of it considering that exposure and influence around would really be something that cant be stopped.
This is why we cant really put up all the blame into the parents or guardians because there are kids who doesnt really easily listen up into their parents when it comes
on lecturing or trying out to discipline on whats wrong and whats right.

But instead of asking the family to manage a child, why don't the family manage the person who is gambling in the family, a very simple story, if we want to improve the younger generations, we need to improve the thinking of the adults, they are the first and closest teachers to the children. However, I feel that people are only looking at one problem, how to teach a child, how to separate a child from gambling, while the family constantly reproduces the act of gambling, if someone in the family is gambling, do it quietly and create a better cover for the child

The government is right because majority of the people are introduced to online gambling by seeing ads online like on instagram, facebook, etc.
if these ads are not there then we were just surfing some other entertainment sites like youtube or streaming some movies, but these ads introduced many people to online gambling sites.
every person know about gambling when they are kids but that type of gambling (like if red wins I will win a pizza from you) is not very risky, the risky thing is gambling with hard earned money and how we know about it by ads or some friends they were also got introduced by online gambling by ads.

That's the cons of it, when a kid is with friends that have been into gambling and those kids don't even let their parents know that they're into it. It's going to be shared with other kid friends that they have and out of curiosity, they're going to happily gamble with their parent's money and it won't matter to them because it's not their money. As long as they enjoy the money, whether it's with foods, drinks or gambling.

The only thing that will impact to them is the enjoyment that they're getting. I think the apps that can also be downloaded plays a role on it when they're accessible and can be downloaded anytime without having a very strict rule from such platforms like google play where they can just type a few keywords like gambling and app and then it will appear to them and they're free to download and play it. And much worse, if it's not just a free game but with deposits as well thinking that they're earning real money in an actual casino app.

If an elder person in a family is addicted to gambling then that family will never be happy and peaceful. It can be seen that the younger members of the family become addicted to gambling after seeing him. One can never become completely addicted to gambling after watching advertisements.  Gambling can learn gambling or can learn gambling from watching family members. This is how little boys are getting into gambling almost every day. If family members keep the little boys under control, maybe they will not be so addicted to gambling.