Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. (Read 6783 times)

Some children are lucky enough to have both parents around them, and some of them are so smart that they can cope with the ever-rising trend in society and carry their children along. But for the children who don't have such parents around them or who don't even have any at all, most of the time they do their own learning by themselves, and some do it very well. 
 
Sometimes, even when the parent is trying to educate them, they still find learning online and outside very helpful. Compared to the ones they get from home, especially the ones that keep friends a lot, the parent can just give them a basis' knowledge of the things they want them to know, but they can't teach them up to the extent that they will be satisfied.

Such things are sometimes unavoidable because it is indeed a necessity to survive in life and to support the needs of the small family that we have but indeed on the other hand in this case of course we also still have to continue to take the time to at least save our children from the negative effects of the Internet. Even if we can't monitor for 24 hours but in the end there must be one or 2 days off at work where it can be used to create closeness with children and tell them what is good and what is bad. If that can't happen, we can still limit and monitor what our children do when surfing the internet.

The problem of gambling is sometimes very difficult to prevent including for a child but indeed this is still limited because in the end if they are adults and determine what they want with responsibility then it is welcome if they really want to do gambling even though but for children who are still not time to do it then it would be better if they continue to be limited and do not fall into something like this.

Kids knowing about gambling doesn't mean they won't escape the gambling habit. Could recur a member that mentioned about his dad abusing gambling right in front of them. He was a son to an addicted player but ended up having a severe hatred on gambling. For some reasons he didn't engage into gambling like his dad. It has both impacts on the person. It either makes the person avoid gambling entirely or get the person into gambling. Both ways none is the right choice for young people. First, having hatred on gambling is not good. Because gambling is good once a while a person is meant to gamble to get a few tastes of joy from swinging money. On the other hand if the person gets involved into gambling like his dad he could become addicted.

As a child I knew about gambling had some family friends that gambled. But didn't gamble like them because I never had access to doing it. Kids tend to repeat what whoever they respect do. It doesn't necessarily have to be the parents he lives with in same house. But a family friend or friend who comes once a whole, could, in multiple ways, influence the kids into gambling. The dad may unknowingly mention gambling. Or the person starts a conversation right in front of the kids about how he made money in gambling to purchase all the important looking things he posses. The child could be around listening. Having access is the main problem. Most kids today have complete access to anything online. Including online gambling.

The children are ready to get knowledge from their parents and elders.So if the gambler play the game in front of the kids,they will easily learn the game.In the future,the kids will become a gambler without doubt.The son like his father,I had become a gambler by seeing my father playing gambling at my younger age.My mother said that my father had loss many dollars at his younger age.But this indirectly get me into the gambling.But I am skipping the mistake done by my father.He use to play gambling with the full income and mostly he loss the game.The reason was he try to multiple the money and take big risk on betting.

If you are playing the gambling in front of your younger kids kindly stop it.Because if they play gambling also no problem.But if your kids become the gambling addicted person,then it will be the dangerous one for their family.So try to play game at your work place or at the room without your kids.

I will just contribute in the short way children learn a lot from us. In fact, they just repeat what we are doing. Anything you are doing in the presence means you are teaching them how to do it and they will just repeat exactly what you are doing gambling in front of the kids is very dangerous because they will repeat that and not even letting you know unless you find out yourself so I wouldn’t advise anyone to proceeded and gambling in front of the kid, if you are doing it please just stop it’s not a good thing

Main word is many. Kids have access to enormous amount of information. Every single knowledge is accessible to them thanks to the internet. That is why focusing on hiding just one thing as gambling, when it isnt proved by science that every one who gamble get addicted, seems wrong to me. Hide one thing, they find interest in 100 other things.

With access to the internet, adults create problem out of everything, as they share each and every accidental fart they made and pump that problem to the size of the universe. Parents real all that crap about one kid who lived in Vegas in a family of gamblers, and who all of a sudden showed interest to gambling, which parents understood as addiction. And start to claim that everyone who has ever heard or saw an act of gambling, catches it like a kid in kindergarten catches running nose during seasonal flu.

Parents must educate their children so they do not take the wrong direction in socializing. Many children today have the wrong relationship and because their friends come from everywhere, it makes them get the wrong understanding. That's why if they are confused, they can ask their parents and get the right answer. That is why parents must be able to provide good knowledge to their children, and this also requires parents to learn more so they can guide their children well.

Yes, I'm sure of that too. But even so, parents cannot just hand it over to their children without any guidance from their parents. Nowadays, their children are exposed to more information, which means parents need to know what their children want to ask. Their children can search for the answers online, but if parents can provide more age-appropriate knowledge, it will help their children understand. Parents now have to learn more so they can understand their children's development well and educate them well.

Sad reality that most of the time both parents needs to work to address the needs of their family, to extent that they need to work overtime and with that situation the time that they need to spend for their kids, and like what you mentioned there are many wrong information that the kids can get from the internet,

if you are not careful with what you are doing around your kids and they see you playing some type of gambling, that curiosty will arise and they will find ways to learn about the game,

it will be easier for those kids to find something that they will follow even as early as 4 years old which is now ready to adopt even those information are wrongly presented by those who are sharing it online.

Kids actually are not look for answers, they just look at what YouTube or google search and suggestion script gives them. As you say, parents work a lot, and to keep kid busy, they gave them tablets with full access to internet. What parents get with that? Few hours of free time and a kid who believes more to what a guy from short video say, than their parents. And with "never gamble in front" meaning, spending even less time with kids, the problem of wrong world understanding only grows.

People should ask themselves, is showing gambling to kids really that bad? I bet most of gamblers here, found out about gambling before they turned 18. Did bad things due to knowing it early really happened to you? Have you became addicted due to that?

I am sure that most parents are doing the best that they can already, it is just that now in many countries around the world both parents have to work in order to keep themselves afloat, and this is causing that many kids are growing without a strong parental figure that can guide them, so many of those kids are now looking the answers to their questions online, and as we know they can find all kind of mistaken information there that could warp the view they may have about gambling and they may try it at such an early age.

Indeed, once our children are out of our sight, we can't control their every action, but the key lies in ensuring they have a well rounded understanding of the issues at hand. This empowers them to form their own opinions and make informed decisions when faced with peer pressure.
For instance, if a child comprehends the potential harms of drugs, they're more likely to resist when friends encourage them to participate.
The same logic applies to other temptations like cigarettes, alcohol  and gambling.
Children might experiment out of curiosity, but with a strong foundational knowledge, they are less likely to continue harmful behaviors, choosing instead to protect their health and well being.


Absolutely, I agree with you. It's crucial for parents to balance being an authority figure and a trusted ally to their children. However, it's important to maintain moderation in all things, including our approach to guiding them. Gambling can indeed serve as a form of social entertainment, but you also can essential to introduce children to a variety of activities that enrich their lives and expand their horizons.

Imagine a scenario where the gambler gets addicted, peace wouldn't be in that home anymore. Some gamblers don't think about the risks involved in their gambling attitudes, sometimes the kids suffer more than the addicted parent. Putting kids in an early stage of life in such a severe pain and trauma should be discouraged. Societal lifestyle has changed alongside the internet lifestyle. I thought it would be for the better, but lots of gamblers keep losing control even at home. The concept of online gambling is for privacy. As you suggested, doing the gaming privately wouldn't lead to any child seeing his parents gambling. I dislike when kids come closer to my screen and stay for a long time especially when viewing games.

It's better to watch movies together with them, than share same laptop screen. Because ads could appear unexpectedly. And their eyes are so catchy that they'll observe every single move on the screen. Married people out of love for their beloved home are expected to forgo some certain unhelpful habits. And focus in building a memorable childhood for their kids, by forfeiting time meant for gambling, and investing it on spending valuable time with the children. Teaching them what to learn and what not to learn out there in the society. These are reasonable conversations that could change a child's future for good.

Someone always imitates our behavior and behavior as their parents, even though it is quite difficult for us to express our interest in something (gambling), rather than them being influenced by what we do, it would be better if we try not to show or tell them. gambling activities to them (children)


It would be better if we didn't gamble at home, and even if we gamble at home, we have to have a special room. Because when at home, a child can approach his parents at any time, even suddenly without us knowing.

And I agree with your opinion that when we are a family, we should minimize gambling activities as much as possible. Because gambling is not our main priority, nor is it an obligation, but just a hobby and fun. Family is much more valuable than gambling. and it is true that when someone is unable to manage gambling activities well, is unable to control himself when gambling, and is often involved in irresponsible gambling activities, this can really affect harmony in a household relationship.

I would surprise you by saying that kid wont become addicted. And here is why, kids at 12-14 or in their teenager period focus on multiple things. They think they are grown-ups now, and new horizons for them are open. If not mistaken, this is a period of first relationships. Period of their "first one and only love" Anyway, at that age, it is hard for kids to focus on one thing. Do you really think they would gamble for hours daily, so that hobby later would turn into addiction? That is a joke. First try to make kid do one and the same thing each daily for weeks and I would smile when you would fail to even force him to do something regularly even with a reward.

Ok, there might be a situation when 1 out of million kid would get interested into gambling, will spend his money and steal from parents, as you say. But that is a tiny % in statistics. And do you really think that every parent now must hide his gambling sessions from every kid? Then why dont parents lock their kids in a room until they hit 18? Because until that, they might see violence in games, movies at home. Play video games were others get killed. Talk to other kids and "learn bad" and etc.

Actually, it's not only gambling. Anything that is not education, be it working as a longshoreman in a port or a street food seller will turn out to be bad, if you are doing as a kid instead of getting education. We, as parents, should tell ours kids to not waist their time on making money through dull jobs, because all their time must be spent on education. And meanwhile we should provide them food and shelter. Even if gambling was just another way of making money(which of course gambling is not) it would better for our kids to stay away from it while they are young.

Yes, parents education is necessary for their children so that they are not involved in things that will harm them. If parents can be friends and parents, their children will not hide what they do because they already trust their parents. They also won't want to try gambling because they already understand the impact of gambling on them.

There are many other activities that children can do besides gambling, especially using their devices more often than doing physical activities. We have seen that children in this era prefer to use their devices rather than do physical activities, and this is what causes a lack of socialization with each other.

Of course this is what is worried about, anything can happen that we never even expected before and I think most parents definitely do not want to see their children fall into gambling, No matter if for example the country legalizes gambling activities but if these activities are carried out by children who are still underage then the parents should be able to think rationally that it will be able to threaten their future and also they should be able to think that a child who is still underage then surely they cannot think reasonably and will not be able to consider something rationally to make a decision and what happens is clear that most likely they will only lose a lot of money blindly.

However, it is the duty and obligation of both parents to protect and direct their children to things that are good for themselves and their future, therefore we as parents must really be able to research or identify the possibilities that can be done by a child when they hang out with other people, not that you have to always restrain them but certainly always keep an eye on them so that they are not wrong in associating with the environment.

You need to understand that when they are with their friends, you can no longer see what they're doing unless you have advised them not to do so because that's the important aspect of parenting when you give them important advice. When they are with those who gamble, they also become gamblers no matter how long it takes when they are with those people. Even when playing sports games like how we used to play basketball, they should not engage in betting if you don't want them to get used to it because that's when the problem starts. After all, it opens their craving for other betting games as well.

That's true.
Parents owe their kids the responsibility of instilling good habits and values on their kids and also understand that those habits should be adaptable to what they encounter outside the home.

Parents must realize that they can't shield their children from all the dangers in the society, so rather than putting more effort in trying to shield them from the dangers, they should rather put that effort in preparing them to be able to deal with those dangers and how to tackle them when they approach them, and that includes offering them guidance in their media consumption, because asides the environment, children are mostly influenced by what they encounter in the media.

Parents can also try their best to encourage their kids to get involved with more educational forms of entertainment like reading, playing games that impacts them positively and other creative activities.

We are in a generation where nobody wants to do, perfectly, the parenting job. It's manly done halfway, due to the economic condition of the world. I see parents on social media battling with four different jobs, that's quite unbearable. So, the level of home training capable of truly improving a positive lifestyle of a child, growing up, is hard to attain. Most times the time to do the teaching would be the child's favorite sleeping moment. However, there is time for giving out the best teachings to kids, just that it's a resting time for the parents. You see that the schedule in some families is not collaborating, such that the trouble only worsens. Hence, the best thing to do, is not gambling when around those kids.

A parent who has the luxury to gamble around his kids, can use that moment to have quality conversation with them, and teach them about the downside of gambling. Also add the advantages of gambling. The problem most players face today, is that they never had an idea of any good aspect of gambling. Within them, addiction is the only thing that happens to gamblers. Not knowing that gambling could be used to develop self-control, time management, etc. Starting out by sharing the good things found in gambling, can open a responsible gambling thought on the child, when he gets to adulthood. People think much of addiction, that's why, in my response, they get addicted.