Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 22. (Read 8042 times)

I would not dare showing them anything.
Like you said, the era now of internet is where kids could easily access these things. Explaining it to them or showing it at a young age might worsen the case. I'd rather leave them in the dark for now. Don't let them see what we are doing and try to check their phones, tablets, or computers if there is one hint of gambling in it. Delete it as fast as possible because the next time they visit it could end up differently.
Also, don't give them access to anything money related, the best possible way to do this is to make them innocent about money until the time where they reach the right age where they could manage their own money.
It's because once they knew how to handle money, they might try doing something stupid and gambling is one of those. Up until now, I am not letting my kids have their own certain amount of money. What they receive from other people during Christmas is being handled by their mother. Because once they start knowing about how money works, they might come a time that they will start lying and keeping those just so they could satisfy their habits.

I think fathers should pay full attention to this precaution, because if they really think that the future of a child is more important than anything else then I don't think they should forget something that should be done like diverting the answer to a question that a child asks you, but if a father always forgets to do this then I think there is another reason or they don't really care about their child. I don't think we need to go too far in making up things like this, because it is clear that the main point that a father should do is that they must keep gambling activities out of the sight of their children, there is no other reason because this is the best thing to do if they feel that the future of their children is far more important than anything else.

By doing this, it is clear that there will be no follow-up from other questions because a child will never again see your activities that are too serious in looking at the screen because you can really divide gambling time with time for a child. Usually a child will be easily distracted by other things they see, and that means that what you can do is take their attention away from gambling and divert it to other things that can make them feel happy, with this in my opinion it is less likely for them to ask you again about what they saw before, on the other hand you have also said this that the point is that parents must be able to distract a child.

Providing a good and proper understanding to children is good, but on the other hand, in my opinion, it is better for you to avoid anything related to gambling from the view of children even though for example your goal is good, namely by instructing them that gambling activities are very bad and should not be done by them but on the other hand maybe we know that children have a high level of curiosity and this means that it is not impossible that they will be even more curious about what gambling really is after you give them an explanation of the dangers of gambling.

So the best thing in my opinion is that it is better to avoid everything related to gambling from the view of a child, do not let them know that in this world there are gambling activities. On the other hand I understand that with the development of increasingly sophisticated times this allows children to know the world of gambling accidentally, and one of the factors causing this is the world of the internet, the scenario is that maybe they can find some casino promotions on social media, and this means that you better limit their activities, especially in the digital world such as limiting the use of smartphones or other things that have the potential possibility of your child finding gambling promotions. Another thing is of course what you said is true that to get out of the addiction phase is very difficult and this is also the reason why we must try hard to avoid gambling especially for your children.

That's why the task of parents is now more difficult because their children are facing technological advances so that they can find out about gambling using the internet. And if parents don't supervise their children, their children can start gambling using their devices without their parents knowing. And it has become a problem for his parents because they will continue to gamble secretly. Especially if their friends also gamble so they can gamble together while spending time playing. That is why supervision is needed from parents so that their children do not find out about gambling or other things because once they find pleasure in gambling, they will come back to gambling again and they can experience gambling addiction later. Parents also do not need to teach their children about gambling, especially if they are still teenagers and cannot control themselves because this can be seen from their daily attitudes and behavior.

That's right, we need to give children a clear understanding of what is happening around us.
And how dangerous are addictions. It is best to do this using examples. Now we live in a time when, thanks to the Internet, it is easy to find videos where young people give interviews and tell what uncontrolled gambling has brought them to.
Such an example shows more clearly than any how difficult it is to get out of such an addiction, and unfortunately how easy it is to get into it.

Not all gamblers are becoming gamblers with the help of their friends. You know gambling ads nowadays in everywhere online even on TV shows. So these online ads play a big. role to introduce someone to gambling.


If someone comes to gambling by his friend. Of course, the individual himself is responsible for this. Not his friends or anyone.



No, you can not think like an adult for children. They are still children because they don't have the ability to think advantages and disadvantages of gambling (or anything) properly. So You should not gamble in front of any child.

Unless they know how worse a gambling addiction can be or to the point any addiction how would they know whether to avoid or not. In today's time when everyone in the world is connected to the internet it is not possible to keep children away from bad things. Making them aware of what is considered good and what is considered bad will help them in their future. It is not possible to monitor a child 24/7 but making them aware of everything happening around is possible.

You have a point mate. They could easily learn from friend and keep it from you for as long as they want. And that would even bring more damage than when you are aware of their gambling habits. I agree at some point in life you should draw them close to ourselves and give them a concrete advise on gambling with examples and the demerits. If we do so, they'll probably understand based on the way you structured your advise. There are several online casino out there that don't require any KYC before your registration, all you need to do is to accept their terms and your account is created. So even without showing them they might find those gambling site from the social media. Currently in my country, lots of social media influencer do ads for those online casinos, and children watching their videos will definitely get to watch one gambling ad someday.

In my country physical gambling is ban and our society does not welcome gamblers. Still people come online and use online casino for gambling. Now the question is this how could that individual come in contact of online gambling? The answer would be his circle of friends or a friend. Does that mean the friend is responsible for his gambling habit or himself. The same goes for children they should know what gambling and betting is, but they should also understand the disadvantage of it. It's not that you can keep a child always at home, they will go out meet friends and one of them might introduce gambling to the child, but since the child is aware of it he/she won't fall for it.

I think everyone knows in today's sophisticated technological era. we can't prevent children from getting to know gambling, in fact they can use AI just to find out what gambling is and find out sites that really make money from gambling, so for that reason, never gamble in front of children because without us telling them about gambling they can easily find out what we are playing in front of them or can get information from their school friends around them.

I often see in a cafe children who are underage playing football betting and playing slots, I also think how they can gamble when we know that many casinos currently implement KYC and they don't have an identity because they are not yet adults, I always I use what I see as material for my children to think about, that's why I always explain the bad things about gambling so that they don't have to look for information out there that might get them wrong, the only way to stop our children from gambling is by not gambling in front of them. children will be easy to imitate quickly.

Imitating adults is not wrong, and maybe it would look good if it was something that leads to something positive, but not with gambling, because in my opinion gambling has many negative perspectives, especially for older people. They definitely have a negative perspective on gambling and it is impossible for them to teach their children about gambling because it is a wrong action,  including showing that the gambling activities carried out by their parents are not right. Small children must be educated well, because small children are usually easily attracted, therefore it is not recommended to show young children the gambling activities we do. The future of young children must of course be safeguarded by teaching or educating them with positive things that are true.

Yes, that's true, because I think children's curiosity and sense of curiosity is very high so that when they see something interesting they are likely to imitate it, even if it is dangerous. because we know that small children cannot fully consider whether the action they are going to take is good or bad, as long as they are interested and think it is fun, they will follow it. with those who are still young, of course it doesn't mean they deserve to know about gambling, indeed small children must be able to develop but not all the things they need to know, because there are things that are forbidden to learn and there are things that must be learned, such as gambling, according to I think this is not worth them learning, because this is not a good thing. As much as possible, we don't teach or show our gambling activities in front of them, because if they have seen it, it will make them interested and want to know more.

The parents had huge responsibility while the children grow in this society,because the society was corrupted now.The parents should teach the good things from their early years,because they will grow based on that.The parents can teach the gambling to their children at the earliest stage and say all the risk in the gambling site.Because when they get the gambling knowledge from their friends,it was not sure they teach your children about the risk in the gambling site.Playing gambling is not the offence,only if they loss the huge money into the gambling will create the financial burden to their family at the end.So they should play responsible gambling in real life.

But you could say this about a lot of problems when it comes to kids. I have seen so many mothers sending their children to buy cigarettes for them. But what's really bad is that those people running the betting shops actually accepted the placed bets and took the money. If they were interested in children, they could have just made sure that children are not able to place any bets, period. The problem would have been solved as parents or friends or neighbors would not it wouldn't work out anyway and they would have to do it themselves. That's why I think there are a lot of bad actors involved in the process when kids place bets.

Have you ever imagine a situation where someone from your neighborhood send your child with a booking number to place a bet for him/her in a betting shop. Most times gambling is learnt by kid either from friends or neighborhood.

Children of all generations learn by observation and so build up characters from the things they see around them. A child believes that whatever an adult does is right and so they easily pick interest in whatever activity their parents do.

This is so because a child's mind is empty and what fills the mind are the things the child sees. At this age, it is good for a parent to exhibit good character so that the child can emulate such and then grow up with it.

Looking at the nature of a child, it is bad to gamble in front of a child because they are ignorant of the negativities that come with gambling and so it will become difficult for them to handle such negatives if they dare involve in gambling.

I will advocate that when a child is caught gambling, and identify his parents as the source of the behavior, such a parent should be punished.

Those lies could help, but not forever. Sometimes humans forget what they said previously about a certain question. When that same question is repeated other times, weeks later, the recipient of the question may not give an answer that matches his previous answer, if he lied. The truth sticks to the brain, and we don't need to bother about fabricating something to say. They'll be nothing to lie about computerized objects moving in the screen. The child sees the avatars, and characters in the game. S/he may be wondering why daddy is seriously playing such games, that looks like it's meant for kids. Looking at it they know it's a game, why a grown adult is playing such a game.

Actually, the child may not be satisfied with the answer; truth or lies. So, they'll have to asks again some other times. When it doesn't correspond, the child may remind us of our previous answer, the lie didn't match. Creating more confusions. I think they'll should be more explanations to do, when in such a condition, a child being inquisitive of our gambling activity. Drawing an image, in the child's mind, of the quality and importance of the game, without mentioning gambling, that made you to engage in the game every day. Explanations makes confusing things clearer and brighter for a child. Let them see a reason. It will reduce the rate the child repeats his or her questions. While at it try diverging the discussion to other life situations and bringing it back to the main topic. With a good interpersonal skill, the gambler doesn't need to hide and play gambling. Unless the child distracts us from being attentive in the game, changing location will be fine.

This present generation children have a good pattern of learning faster and I don't suggest we should be sharing significant information that would expose them more. We're mature enough to understand that gambling is terrible for the younger ones and I wouldn't advised my younger siblings to hook on gambling because the outcomes that follows are terrible and poor. Gambling infront of your kids? What illustration are you trying yard to pass to the kids? Probably I guessed it's nothing compared to the full ground where we hustled for our dialy bread for our family.

Gambling in front of a child is definitely a bad idea. children of this generation don't need much explanation before they find out what your are doing by themselves. Yes I deed, they are now that smart. Well just as Dewi Aries has said, when gambling you need to take precautionary measure not to do it in front of a child, and it can be achieved by doing it at your room whereas you have locked the door, or while they are in their schools or at bed sleeping. It's very possible some parent gamble and then sleep off without locking their phone in the sitting room. This is something we must be conscious of, to protect our children from getting their hand into wrong practice at their age.

I think it's fine if you lie for the sake of something that leads to goodness because after all that's the best thing to do if indeed you are one of the fathers involved in gambling, and don't let you be careless in taking precautions so that your children's curiosity does not develop, plus it's clear as you said that a child usually has a sharp memory and also has a high enough sense of curiosity that this can make them find out what exactly you are doing and it is possible that they are involved in gambling without you realizing it. After all, as you said, there are still quite a lot of prevention options that we can do, one of which is in terms of dividing time, you can gamble at your children's bedtime or gamble in other places that are essentially far from your child's environment.

Well of course such a situation is also very likely to make a child become very curious about what exactly his father is doing, they will be very curious and then ask you some questions and if you always make the same mistakes in the sense of not paying too much attention to the importance of the prevention aspect then obviously the suspicion of a child will be more developed, so always keep this activity away from the environment and the view of a child if you really want the best for your child.

It's a must if you don't want to see your kids at that young age already knew about gambling, chances that they may use your gambling account is not impossible as most of the time parents forget about being responsible leaving their device open and with that curiosity inside the kids mind, they will think that gambling where they are seeing their parents enjoying will also let them enjoy.

Something that needed a good attention to avoid any big issue to happen, just be responsible and not to give any idea especially with the kids who are very observant in what we are doing in front of them.