Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 2. (Read 7044 times)

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Kids are imitators, but they dont imitate everything parents do. If they were complete imitators, parents would never punish then for misbehave. Or we would have little 7yo adults. Ever imagined how people in countryside live? What they do with pigs, sheeps, cows or chicken when they are hungry? Strange that we dont have little maniacs that see adult kill animals for food.

Anyway, show me an example of any kid who is addicted to gamble. But not use gambling as just a method to get some easy money.

If a gambler gambles regularly and if he has a family but he is forced to gamble in front of his family, many times these gambling issues have a bad effect on the gambler's family. If gambling is regularly discussed in front of children, they will at some point ask the Guardian what gambling is or how to play it because children are always curious and try to learn new things. If he regularly hears discussions about these matters from the family, a gambling effect will develop in him and the effect is harmful at least for the children. So as much as possible a gambler should conduct their gambling away from children.

Especially if your type of gambling portrays being irresponsible and being impulsive. You don't want to be that parent/ elderly don't you? Because once those children saw that excitement from negative behaviors, they perceive it as something rewarding and they ought to do the same because they are curious. So along with that, also show guidance because advertisements through media platforms also have those involvement with gambling. Easy money never last. Teach your children real skill and generational wealth instead.

When parents establish themselves as a trusted authority, children are more likely to share exciting news or seek advice about what they've learned from friends. This is a positive sign. Its crucial for parents to instill a strong sense of values and foster critical thinking skills. Today's children are incredibly progressive and with the right guidance, they're well equipped to seek out information and evaluate it through the lens of family values.

Playing gambling in front of children is the same as teaching children to gamble because children are good imitators. So stop gambling in front of you because the impact will be very big on his education. Gambling is something that is not good, even for adults gambling can have bad consequences, especially for children, of course their minds are not smart enough to see the negative impacts of gambling.

Usually a child will do anything if he already knows or likes any game. For example, when there were still Playstation rentals, when children were addicted they would look for money in any way they could to get to the rental place, including secretly stealing money at home. Another example like today is playing games on a smartphone and getting addicted, of course this is also not good, especially if you frequently top up, they will also look for money in any way to be able to top up. Especially if they already know about gambling from their father, this will certainly have a bad impact on your child in the future.

That is actually a real problem that I see among parents. Sometimes, when I see they play with kids (does not matter if it is gambling, board games or sports games), they play like they compete against equal adult. That is really annoying when I see adults beat kids, let say in chess, and call it as a valuable lesson, because kids needs to learn that the life if tough. Adults should play any game with kids like it is entertainment, to get them involved into game. Gambling with kids for little money seems a good lesson. But this game should involve both winning and loosing. Not only "I will give in" to make kid see how money are won.

Btw, what about playing monopoly? Game with play money, but it teaches about investment, trading. If people avoid gambling in front of kids because they are afraid that kids will grow up addicted to gambling and lose money. Then why Monopoly is different? Because kids might grow up addicted to trading and lose money. Wikipedia says Monopoly is suited for +8 yo.

Isn't it amazing how resilient and adaptable kids can be in difficult situations? Some just figure things out. Self-learning is powerful. But when they're alone, how can they separate good information from garbage? Gambling, where dangers can ruin their future, is especially dangerous. I support kids' independence, but there's a balance. It's on us  (parents, teachers, whoever) to be a backstop, a guide. Instead of clipping their wings, we want them to fly safely.  Nobody wants a smart youngster to get stuck. Celebrate kids who push themselves to study, but also give them the tools to stay smart, learn dangers, and make daring choices work

Actually, I can imagine how to gamble in front of your kids and make of that something useful for them. First off, they should be of age above 14. Secondly, it shouldn't be a gambling session where you are excited hoping for a big win. On the contrary, it should be a cold-blooded session, and you should be explaining to your kids that it's stupid to count on earning money through gambling, and exemplify that with your game. This way you could teach a good lesson to your kids while losing just $10. But it also could be a terrible lesson if you won big accidentally. So, I'd say it's better not to risk and never gamble in front of your kids.

You know, I can give you my own examples of how kids dont get addicted to what parents do. For example I watch UFC fights weekly. From time to time, kid passes by TV, pauses for few seconds to look at what is going on. For majority - my kid is watching violence. For majority - I am giving my kid a bad example. But, not a single school teacher, nor other parent complained about my kid fighting with others. Never ever I saw any aggression. Never ever my kid tried to solve situation with fighting. The other thing that my kid often see me doing is reading before going to sleep. Unfortunately, I cant boast that my kid likes reading or reads a lot. Maximum what the kid reads is for homework.

What I am saying, that kid not only get addicted to what parents do, but not always shows a huge interest to it. Btw, we play UNO and we bet candies (skittles). On one hand it is a motivation to gamble. On the other I dont let kid eat candies unlimited and for nothing. Beat me and grab a candy Sometimes I get more candies than my kid

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.