Topic: I think gambling is inbuilt, kids don't learn it anywhere, they do it! - page 3. (Read 1459 times)

We think that the main thing about this is that parents must have very good guardianship of their children as parents, because those parents who are responsible know that today's children and adolescents are very young, and they have to do everything possible to put it to be very busy, in sports, in demanding that they be the best in their schools, that is the job of the children, of the adolescents, until they are formed as good people, then in the etoprde of ideas you know that now they are so intelligent You should consider getting them into music, sports, anything that keeps them busy, so to do that, parents should be more focused on being more aware of their children in other activities and less on the cell phone, PC, or something like this, because they don't have time to do other activities that get them into trouble, for this reason this goes deep among many parents, if they have children they must provide them with opportunities for everything, study, sports, cultural activities, whatever they are busy with. time.

Of course the training is clearly influenced by the things they can achieve, in this sense we are people who can influence things for children, adolescents, for parents who give their children tablets, cell phones, friends, because it is something they have to be very careful, not only because of the casinos and the fact that they loot all your money, that's just a minus, the money is somehow recovered, the bad thing is that they lead to pages that are of children's oprnography, of people who try to take advantage from them, that they threaten them, there are many ways to do things so that these problems are avoided, for that reason we as parents, we must always be there aware of everything, the pp that there are are useless, that is a lie , what's on Google is something that doesn't make sense, at least for me it doesn't help, because someone as a parent of a minor needs to know every step they take.

To say kids just learn gambling by themselves would be a little bit overstretched argument because if gambling is inherited may be different to be explained. What is inherited is what is in the gene and I think gambling is a habit that is picked somewhere and can equally be dropped. So children are exposed to many vices even if not from the home, the school is there where they are really influenced by teachers or friends.

The internet is also another agent of socialization that has really muted people's culture and traditions. A child can easily access the internet with his parents phone if he doesn't have phone yet and his father won't know about that. Although it is in our instinct but we see it from somewhere and follow from it, it is not like food that you have a natural need for when you are hungry.

This is, of course, a very important part. Providing education for your kids so that they knew that it's very stupid to rely on gambling as a major income.

As for gambling for fun, there ain't anything wrong with that, imo, as long as your kid is of  legal age. Just explain that there are things that are meant for adults only, and gambling is one of them. When you are a small child, it's very likely that it will harm you.



Normally, the people from those groups are older and hanging out with them is not only dangerous because you can start gambling, but because of many other things too. First you should teach your kid to spend time with kids of his age.

By having lots of devices that should make it easier for them to do school and communicate, they are actually used for things they shouldn't be and some are even used for gambling so parents have to be alert to this. They have to pay more attention to their children, especially their children who are starting to grow up, especially as many teenagers' social interactions nowadays have crossed their limits. Teenagers can search for everything on the internet and there are no limits if they cannot control themselves in getting the information they want. This can be dangerous for teenagers because they will see a lot of things, especially things that are not or are not appropriate for them to access. But with supervision and attention from their parents, these teenagers will not look for information beyond what they need because they don't want to experience the bad things that other teenagers have experienced. They will always try to take good care of themselves and also remind each other of their friends.

It will depend on each teenager because if their parents have well educated them, they will use the devices they have well and will not misuse them for unnecessary things, especially for gambling. They will always remember the message from their parents to always be careful in looking after themselves, especially if they are outside the house where their parents cannot supervise them and can only rely on themselves. In their relationships, they must also be able to find friends who will not have a bad influence because whatever teenagers go through will depend on their relationships too. So parents can only remind them to always be alert and careful in looking after themselves. They will also choose who they are friends with because they have seen many teenagers take the wrong path and have been told by their parents that it is because they are in the wrong company.

But I think the desire to not be like his parents is desire for career, not desire for gambling activities.
Gambling is an activity that provides curiosity and in gambling there is no age limit which can really pressure children or teenagers to have difficulty accessing it so that they can enter freely and without their parents knowing.
After all, who knew that children in developed countries would not have the potential to become gamblers and who knew that they would not be curious about gambling.
They all have the potential to become gamblers whether in developed or developing countries and it depends on the role of parents in providing education and guiding them in living life without gambling.

Yes, as parents you must be able to provide advice and enlightenment about gambling at all times so that children do not try to play or access gambling sites because they are still in relatively unstable condition where it is easy to follow or do anything that they may often see.
Apart from parents, the role of the living environment is also very influential no matter how much we as parents give advice or direction, but when they have a living environment that is full of gambling activities, there is still the potential for gambling too.
From here, we as parents must be able to prohibit them from gathering with groups of people who like to gamble so that they can avoid it or not try to gamble.

Indeed it is, because when they start doing anything, they have any type of thing available to them, such as tablets, phones, and everything within their reach with the Internet, so when we emphasize knowing What can be done in this case, because it is very difficult, because in any case children and adolescents suffer from the fact that they must have some means of communication, and since they were little they already have tremendous devices, which seems strange to me, because at least I didn't have that opportunity that they have now, they get any information there on the internet, instead to find information I had to go to the library or something like that, or wait for the most up-to-date book to arrive to be able to deal with the situations that I had to search, the best thing about this is that children and Adolescents can access any type of information under which Children can Open their senses and make them look bad in the face of these things, for this reason it is that now we as parents, we must always Be very alert to what you visit.

I had recently posted in this thread because there was a very good App like Google's parental control for children, called Family Link , but upon Exploring it and studying it well I realized that it doesn't protect much, it doesn't protect against pages that could open. in chrome or any other Browser , it does not control the children's texts or calls, so in part it does not protect anything, they say that they do not do this to protect the privacy of the children, which I do not think , for that Matter then it is not done and it is just Another app that does not benefit in having it, so in this other order of ideas we are people who as adults we must review Everything , from what they see in the History of their Navigators to the calls, sms and with whom they Communicate, lest they ask for bank details or credit cards or go to a casino and put all the money from the credit cards there.

It can affect the child the other way round. In the developed world children often don't want be like their parents.  So, if their parents are gamblers the kids are not.


Every day? That's not enough, mate. It should be more like every hour. And even that might be not enough often to prevent your kid from gambling. What you should do is explain your kid how silly it is to try to make money from gambling. That in the modern world he should make money through his knowledge and use gambling only for entertaining purposes.


And look where that way of thinking gets them. 99% of people wanting to make easy money end up badly. It's like a rule. It's always like that.

As human there is a natural behavior in us that always triggers the spirits of gambling such as the way op explained of him wondering how those children gets to know about betting amongst their two to know whom is to win ( who is right about arguments). If you look deeply there are much difference to what I said it all depends on reasoning and how we may see it from everyone's angle, those exercise I mentioned actually leads to gambling because interest are being developed.

Totally agree, that isnt gambling, that is called motivation. If this was gambling, then work is also a gambling, where after doing tasks employee gets paid. It would be gambling, if students give that teacher money, plus the teacher will add money to bank, and who ever first answers questions correctly gets the prize.

I am curious if teachers even allowed to use money to motivate students or to use gambling method in teaching process.

Giving what you have to get what you want is not gambling, that is called a trade, that is how we do it even today, we give what we have which is money, and we get what we want which is a thing or a service. The only difference is that thousands of years ago, people used to trade things for things instead of giving money and taking things because there used to be no currencies like today.

I disagree again. You can't call that gambling, the students are not spending money or something valuable in return for that reward, they are simply answering a question to get a reward in return, that's not how gambling works, the students that don't answer the questions correctly will lose nothing but will gain nothing as well but in gambling.

Gambling is not inbuilt, we are influenced by what we see and what we hear, so gambling is picked up by young people from the environment as they're growing up. It's a good move by the Australian government to stop the running of gambling ads, it may not stop it completely but for sure they're going to achieve some desirable results.

Gambling hereditary? Where is the gene gotten from... Father, grand father, uncle? Nah, that's not true. Like I said earlier, gambling is learned. Those kids grew up in an environment where they got exposed at their early age and it doesn't necessarily have to be online. They could start with cards, ludo, draft, penalty shootout etc. 

Gambling is in no way embedded in anybody's brain, and likewise it is not a hereditary factor, but it is what people/kids learn from the environment they find themselves, because most times parents fail to understand that kids while growing up learn very fast, and capture every bit of word we say and actions we exhibit while growing up, which proves that for these kids which O.P saw trying to bet to prove a point, may have saw people around such environment playing bet just to prove a point during arguments. So it's just not rocket science, and as such if we want our kids not to get involve in any gambling related activities, we just have to be mindful of the environment, the kinds of friends they keep and T.V shows they watch while in our absent.

Yes, that's true and in conclusion, advertising is not a big problem for minors, but it is the responsibility of parents to educate their children to provide positive insight every day and this must be done every day because it is not only advertising that can influence the minds of minors. but there are activities outside the home that definitely include gambling or other activities that make minors curious about gambling and as long as parents provide knowledge about the dangerous effects of gambling, a child will always be more likely to believe what their parents say and the future. Children depend on the efforts of their parents and cannot blame anyone or anything.

I think I will say that our instinc is tilted towards how to make extra income. It is this quest that lead people into different activities. When the desire of having the power and confidence of our own funds dawn on anyone, he must start making efforts aimed at making money.

Gambling appears to be the favourite option of many because it requires little effort and resources to start and the potential is amazing. To start a business is not as easy as working up to a gambling shop or registering in a gambling site and start playing. People always go for the easier things which gambling stand as one.

Therefore, I will put it that no one is born with gambling traits or skills,  rather everyone is born with the inner quest for power and freedom and that is what having money actually gives.

I agree, gambling is in our DNA. It's actually everywhere. From simply talking about something debating who will win a street fight, heads or tails, betting on a person who is on the brink of falling if he will fall or not, and more. Just like how we learned how corrupted this world is, I learned it when I was still a kid. Imagine someone giving you the change just because they want you to buy them something from the store which they are lazy to do. That's bribery and a part of corruption.
Hereditary or not, I think it has become a part of our life and now the increasing number of gambling sites and the ease of access might magnify that and we cannot really do anything to make our kids stay away from it. Somewhere in their life, they will bump into it and their innocence about it will be gone.
Especially now that kids are allowed to use the internet where lots of gambling ads are popping out if they run into something that is connected to it.
Like my kid who became a fan of Messi and Ronaldo, now there's a chance that sports betting sites will come in and I am trying to avoid that by checking their phones every day.

It's true that children have a very high sense of curiosity, that's why they are very susceptible to imitating anyone they see, whether it's their parents or people around them. Gambling doesn't only exist in online casinos or offline places, there are many types of gambling that are very popular. it is easy for people to play, so it makes children interested in gambling because to get something they have to bet.

Therefore, it is wrong if we forbid them to stay away from gambling because the more it is forbidden, the more curious they are and the higher their curiosity about gambling, so act like parents, let them ask what gambling is so that we can explain the dangers of gambling slowly, because prohibiting is not the right way. to keep children away from gambling because they can learn from anywhere.

I Agree with you that it's all humankind and Gambling is in nature, especially now that we're living in a high technology time, everything that we want to know is accessible in the internet, mostly kids learned how to gamble because of social media advertisements just like today that there's a lot of ads with promising promotion and maybe out of curiosity they want to try how it works and how they can earn money just like what the advertisement say so. On the other hand, Some are saying that gambling is hereditary and I was once believer of that because if you knew someone who's addicted in a gambling, first thing you want to know is if his/her family participates in a Gambling activity too? if so, then it will affect the child, like a domino effect, possible that it will pass on from generation to generation.

I fully agree that gambling addiction and desire to start gambling is inbuilt, but it is triggered by excessive curiosity. By its nature, children are copy of their parents and copy everything they do. But they are very selective. They dont copy everything, but copy only what is more easy, fun or easy to learn. They dont repeat completely what their parents or relatives do. That is why it cant be said that they learn gambling after seeing adults gamble.

Advertisment is something some other person make a living from and it's aswell regulated by a body or an agency in every country or region, and when some advertisment are been made, they are usually indicated to be +18 which indicates that it's for adults and viewer discretion is usually advised and parental guidance is usually advised aswell.

Provided these regulatory bodies approves these advertisment as fit for public view while indicating the required discretion and the age range it's suitable with, I think these adverts will continually be displayed on various screen regardless, except nin regions where it's considered against public safety then it could be stop but then it's usually regulated most of the times,. So in cases as this it's mostly the parents that should checked on their kids and help them avoid all these habits till they get eligible for it.

Children living in this day and age are truly lucky because they get various facilities that can make their lives easier. But unfortunately, this is not accompanied by supervision from their parents or the adults around them so many children are involved in serious problems which ultimately cause them to become addicted to gambling, alcohol, or even get involved in other illegal things. This is really sad because with the increase in the family's standard of living, while the parents can earn a decent income, they cannot supervise their children well. Instead, the parents are increasingly busy with their work on the grounds that they are looking for money for their children. When children are given devices that can make it easier for them to get more useful information, their children misuse them by doing things that are inappropriate for these children. This is why every parent must be alert to the development of their children because children can easily understand things without needing to be taught by their parents and they can even ask their friends or look for more information with their friends.

This is where parents need to be concerned about their children and always monitor their children's activities so that they don't take the wrong path, which could cause them to get involved in negative things. The parent's task is not easy because they also have to learn to understand what their children are doing and guide them well. Maybe parents don't control their children every day, but parents can ask other people, such as teachers or other family members, to help supervise their children. Parents also need to get closer to their children and always ask how they are doing, both at school, socially and in their surrounding environment. By always trying to get closer to their children, an emotional relationship will be established between parents and their children so that it will help parents and children to understand each other.