Topic: Minimum Age to gamble - page 8. (Read 3939 times)

Blocking apps or selected pages on children gadgets is not a solution. In fact that is an interference in their private life. A lot of parents dont understand, that their kids is not their slaves, property or they owe them something. Kids have right for private life also. The proper solution would be educate kids that at their young gambling is not the best way to spend time, to tell them consequences of gambling addiction, how unfair and cruel world is.

If you ban apps or pages - with time a kid will find a way to bypass it. Trust me. But, he will use that against you. He will find a way to hide things. And that is the worst thing a kid could do. That will mean that you have lost trust. That is the worst thing, as this is the beginning of loosing connection with your kid.

The more you block ban or restrict something, the more kid will want to get it or access it. Imho proper solution is to talk that gambling thing in such a way, that they kid will personally came to a conclusion that he is to young for that or it is to early to gamble right now.

For me blocking/banning is like cutting off finger when you have a broken nail, instead of trying to fix it. Like ancient doctors, who would better cut the limb instead of curing it

Yes I agree to this, there is no other way to reduce the amount of loss or to avoid addiction other than self-control, I hope most of them (gamblers) already know about what they should do there. Always gamble with a budget limit and a healthy mindset of not overdoing it, that's it and you'll be safe. Because as we know the temptation in gambling is very extraordinary, only a few are able to pass it and most of them will be trapped there. What I'm afraid of is that for young children, there must be strict rules from both parents, especially in this era where gambling is very common, so this is a big task for every parent.

There is no doubt about the importance of the role of parents towards their children because if parents can supervise their children when using their phones and always tell them to be careful, their children will learn to be responsible for what they do. Their children will also not use their phones for things that are not good for them and will be careful when browsing the internet. Their children know that the internet means a world without borders and it depends on how they use the internet. Parents don't need to strictly forbid it because that will only make their children rebel and instead, their curiosity will increase and they will find out for themselves. And that will make them take the wrong path, especially if they don't have guidance from their parents in using their phones.

Another ideas how effective controlling our children not try with gambling limited their money in daily day, don't give them too much and enough use for depositing fund in gambling account.

Yes I agree to this, there is no other way to reduce the amount of loss or to avoid addiction other than self-control, I hope most of them (gamblers) already know about what they should do there. Always gamble with a budget limit and a healthy mindset of not overdoing it, that's it and you'll be safe. Because as we know the temptation in gambling is very extraordinary, only a few are able to pass it and most of them will be trapped there. What I'm afraid of is that for young children, there must be strict rules from both parents, especially in this era where gambling is very common, so this is a big task for every parent.

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Yes, it's right that parents work so hard every day that they have no time to keep an eye on what their kids do but another problem is that they rarely have any idea about the functionalities of smartphones and computers while kids are good at it or at least everyone has a friend or friend's friend that is good at it. First of all, it's a headache and almost impossible thing for parents to find a way to block access to certain websites, then some of the manage to download and pay for softwares or pay to their ISP to block certain websites but then as I said above, kid will contact smart friend and will unlock that access or there is another deal, this kid goes with friend kid whose parents aren't restrictive or responsible and they still get what they want.
The third problem is that it's kinda cool among kids to gamble and do prohibited things. Even if parent tells and explains kids what's good and what's bad, there is a social pressure from kids friends to do what's bad. In order to not get laughed or socially isolated, they do it.

This is without a doubt a problem, due to how expensive life is becoming now both parents work and they do not have the time to give their full attention to their children, so the easy way out is to give them a smartphone and buy them video games in order for those devices to become their default nannies, however this is dangerous as even if filters were applied to those devices, children are incredibly smart and they could get around them and find all kind of information for which they are not ready.

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I think that we should not get carried away by these KYC things, because those are the excuses that the casinos and the different entities come up with to control, they also say that the KYC is the best for when there is no problem, that it is easier to determine and recover if there is a hack, I say that this is simple excuses, first if children who are 12-14 years old, if they enter a casino that has or requires a KYC, it is the total responsibility of their parents who have to be supervising them, It is not a problem of the casino, nor because the casino does not have KYC, that is only the worst thing they can tell us, there are many stories that they invent, also if a hack occurs, if they have a KYC they will steal the data plus the money of the players, it is a lie that they are going to return your money, unless it is a casino like stake.com that has a great capacity to respond to any problem like this, otherwise, to look for the money and resonmder would be done through the ID of the player and that's it, plus if something like this happens it is the responsibility of ciasno to respond for all the money of the players where something is stolen from them, so you don't have to get carried away by what they say, that's like the myths, with those things it's that the dominance of the big guys begins, KYC will never be good, privacy, anonymity, everything ends.

In another aspect, it could be said that those who are Pro KYC will always say things like this, there is nothing else they can do, in this order of ideas we can think that some things like these are what they always say so that people comply obligatorily and They tell you that in some way they are protected and no, it is not like that, what I recommend is that if you have a favorite casino, then they must comply with the KYC requirement so that you can play calmly and make a good withdrawal, I am not of those who leave KYC in each casino, I am one of those who leave KYC in the casinos that I consider are worth doing and that can always be fulfilled so that they do the best.

I think the gambling age should be raised even higher because we realize later that the decisions we make at an early age affect us in our future life. Therefore, when we have this habit at an early age, we sometimes get into the business of gambling with money that will be large sums of money for ourselves. This gives us the chance to lose maybe money or maybe different things. That's why I think the gambling age should be higher than 21.