Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 29. (Read 12692 times)

I think that gambling with a child is not a good idea. As you know, the result of gambling is highly dependent on chance. What will you do if your child is constantly lucky in gambling with you? Wouldn't he want to test his gambling skills with his peers? Personally, I think that gambling with children can develop an interest in risk and excitement, which in my opinion is not very good. On the other hand, I have been gambling since high school and I don't blame my parents for not being able to protect me from gambling. It's actually quite controversial.

Many people are busy with their job and do not have time to supervise their children. That makes many people just gives money to their children because they thinks that can solves the problem but the real problem will comes to both parents and their children, especially if their children doesn't know how to manage the money.
We already see many children doing a wrong things and with the money from their parents, they thinks that they can buy many things but they are wrong. They can not thinks that not everything can be buy and they do not learn about how to socialize with other people.
The situation can becomes worst when children see their parents playing gambling in front of them so their children will thinks that playing gambling is a right thing for them. It needs awareness from parents so they can change their habit and will gives attention to their children so their children can grow without have a problem.

This is a simple fact which I agree with, and the reason you are discouraged from gambling infront of kids is because kids learn from what they see, hear etc from people they trust , and if they see you on your phone or computer gambling... sooner or later they will jump on a phone when they get to have access to money and will gamble especially that our casino's/bookies don't ask for KYC from the time of registration..
And tbh any responsible parent should try mould kids to understand that you have to work hard to enjoy  a good life and nothing comes on a silver plate !!!

If one is going to gamble,this should be strictly for fun purposes and not going all in for the money such that when you lose you money you want to hurt yourself as punishment all thanks to greed.
 

I might say that parents are lazy or often busy to educate their kids nowadays. This is due to progress and technology. We get so much new everyday, so much content, that we dont have time for our kids. Parents prefer to give kids a mobile and make the busy. Same goes with gambling. Instead of educating them about gambling, they prefer either gamble secretly, or make gambling a taboo topic. Just think about gambling and kids from following directing - teaching them about gambling is giving knowledge. They would be more experienced than other kids when they grow up. It is not necessary to teach that gambling is a form of making money, or be afraid that kids will get addicted.

I concur to this because it speak volume in my heart, just like sex education many parents see it as wrong thing to educate there children during puberty age many children who parents failed to teach when out and learned rubbish where the fall victim of what they would have avoided through good knowledge from parents.

To avoid gambling in front of your children is good but educating them shout be a something to hide for them let them know the risk if involvement and what it will course them and possibly way's of avoiding such. Though many argue that child that desire to spoiled spoiled even with caution but I don't much agreed on it because I with one family that parents refuse to teach in my society how the family ended negatively good knowledge is very important , training the child in the way they will go is the right thing.

If parent is hidden something like gambling to a child it should be done wisely if you failed to tell them the consequences because children is very good in discovery if they discovered it as secret they will go wrong as they will see to try what their parents is doing secret in a secret manner also I duely Concur irhact ideas

yes, we as parents are the hero of our children as they are looking upon use so whatever
we do in their front ? of course they will copy that and surely they will follow what they see
on us.


actually our kids are also vulnerable outside our house because we cannot look after them
every second of the day and they can find whatever outside world can show.

What I think about this whole situation is that education of kids begins from parents and a home, if parents fail to educate their kids properly then they'll go out and get wrong education from the neighbourhood, there is even a part of the holy bible that states that parents should train up their children in the way they should know and when they're old they'll never depart from it.

 Most parents fail to do that, some don't even have a good relationship with their kids and allow them to move freely with kids in the streets without proper advise or education concerning certain things. If you educate your children properly, even though they mingle with corrupt children they'll remember your advise and try not to do things that would bring disgrace to the family.

That is correct. Parents might protect kids from something particular only at home. Then the kid goes outside and learns new things and learn them in the way street presents him. It makes sense to gamble in front of kids and if they show interest explain what gambling is. Explain its purpose in the way you want them to learn it. Not in a way a stranger explains them. I want my kids to learn that gambling is for entertainment, not, for example, a way to cheat drunk and naive people for easy money. I would better teach and play with my kid a game of shell just for fun, instead of him learning it himself on the street when being 18+ while gambling with sharper.

Of course, with a good education, the chance that children will grow up and become addicted to gambling decreases, because they will understand all the subtle processes on which gambling is built. I don’t want to say that this will always be the case because I personally saw how an educated player turned into a gambling streamer and ended up losing everything for real. Although it would seem that he could easily make money only from streams and casino sponsors, as well as donations from viewers. But he couldn’t keep calm and he wanted more, he fell for the bait.

I would also like to mention that there are those who do not have their own children and they do not understand that when they play, the children of neighbors and relatives can copy our habits and do the same, even as a joke, but in the future this can develop into a serious addiction even in adulthood age from these memories. This results in an indirect effect.

In my opinion, no matter how well we do not explain to the child what is gambling, risks and losses, he will not understand it fully without personal experience.

My parents explained many things to me as a child quite accessible language, I understood their point of view, but I still experienced everything on my personal experience and gambling is no exception.

That is why I believe that if you completely exclude from the child's life moments when his parent is gambling, it may increase the likelihood that he will not show interest in this area of entertainment at all, because nowadays children have more opportunities in the field of entertainment than in my childhood.

That makes sense friends, indeed if they don't want their children to be addicted to gambling of course they have to be able to prevent it and maybe they can tell them about the bad effects of gambling which can destroy their lives, but I think of course they should also be told when they are old enough to be able to do it. determine which things are good and bad, because when they are adults of course they will have the relationships they choose and the relationships they choose determine for themselves whether they will carry out negative or positive activities, because even though their parents forbid it, their social environment can change them.

but there is no harm when children are old enough to be advised about gambling, because they will think and decide to stay away from gambling or even approach it because of the social surroundings. Parental education plays a big role in their growth, but external education, such as from the environment, can make them familiar with gambling, with their parents not knowing that their children are already familiar with gambling. but if parents have educated them well, such as explaining gambling and its fatal negative effects, maybe that can be a benchmark for them not to gamble.

I think that expressions you make during gambling arent much different from those that you make during other actions. What are they? Anger, happiness, sadness, concentration, calculation, silence, excitement and etc. Kids see all that emotions from you anyway. Definitely you explain to when why you feel exhausted when you get home from work. When you feel anger if your favorite team looses or you hit your finger with hammer for example. And so on and so forth. You did not hide all that. But somehow you wish to hide you get all that from gambling. I did not understand that.

That's right, the best way to protect children from misunderstanding something is a regular conversation with their parents. It is important that children understand perfectly well what is happening to parents who are engaged in gambling.
If the parents, or one of them, express a lot of emotions (for example, I often rejoice loudly while gambling), then you need to explain to the child what is happening.

But I am in favor of not playing gambling games in front of children at all, because it will be difficult for them to understand all the subtleties of what is happening to a parent.
There is also a risk of falling into a tilt, and this condition should not be shown to children.

Dont you think that parents postpone to much on a "matured period"? When kids hit 18 they start testing and doing all those things that they were not allowed to do. How come they make right decisions, when they are completely new to things, but adults around them expect them to be experts already (grown ups often say that "you are now adult, so act appropriate"). But what if kid comes to  a matured period already a little bit experienced, a little bit knowing what is what? Would not it help him to make right decisions?

Even when parents explained what gamble is and what addicted can cause the children will still gamble and most of the children might not gamble safe and it might make them to become addicts. When a child is not matured enough to make a decision, the child will make a mistake and it will not lead the child to well. like some people always says that what happens to their fellow gambler or mate can not happen to them because they cant make that same mistakes, sometimes its not about the mistakes, its about the decisions the person takes, no one is perfect that's why we all makes mistakes, but it's good that in every mistakes we make we should be able ti make an amends so that we don't do them again.

From observation, if parents give a description to what they are doing and answer most of the questions children raise, then parents can do almost everything that is morally ethical in front of them. I notice that most of posters here mention that parents are afraid that kids might get gambling addiction. Then why not it would be better to explain to children what is gambling addiction. Because it looks from the side that parents protect children from things they dont know. And it would be better to protect kids from dangers and troubles they might get today and in near in future, then in far future.

At their young age then it is really that something that would really be that so easy to adapt on things on which it would really be that understandable that anything that you do as a parent should really be something
that should really be hidden or something that they shouldn't really be that able to see so that they wont really be that copying it because they are really that too easy to adapt on whatever the things that they would really be able to see around. This is why as a parent then we should be that careful on the things that we are dealing with and since we do know that gambling is a bad thing when things becomes excessive then it would be that right that you should avoid them as much as possible. We do know the risks and we arent that blind with that possibilities are there.

There are really those conditions that we cant be able to stop them on engaging or seeing gambling considering that technology or internet nowadays which it cant be avoided that there would really be that some sort of exposure on which this is something that would really be that different into gambling where our kids could possibly be able to encounter it, which is why it would really be that intuitive that you should really know on how to
make them learn or knows about it because if you dont high probability that they would become gamblers if not really that been monitored or would really be able to see them.
So it would really be that still that parenting would be relevant.

That's true, kids are very good adapting to whatever they observe their parents do they'll always want to imitate and behave like their parents most time, and as parents their are some things an individual should avoid doing in the presence of their kids, like smoking, drinking Alcohol, making out or involving in deep romantic activities and of course gambling. Parents shouldn't put themselves in a situation where they'll ruin their own kids.

 So far the kids see that their parents are not troubled doing it or are happy won from it, they'll tend to try thinking it's a game they'll win money from. Kids love food and material items what could come into the thought of the kid could be winning money to buy his favourite toy or his favourite snack. I concour that parents need to be extremely careful with the activities they carry out in the presence of their kids.

Kids always observe and adopt whatever they see or heard from those adults that they have from their surroundings, learning it only from observing and there's no need for anything as the kids easily adopt and we can't control that without proper guidance, like what happened to you, it's just by hearing it and you just find it out that they already using those words without really knowing what's the meaning of it.

Same deal with gambling, if they see those adults who are enjoying they will think that it will be okay for them to try and enjoy that same game those adults are playing, we need to be very careful on what we are showing them, it should be from us since we are the one that they are following and we needed to be a good example for them.

I agree that talking and discussing gambling with a child is necessary, but I still think that if a child sees their parent gambling it can cause wrong associations in the child. A parent is always a role model for a child, so the likelihood that a child of a smoker will smoke in the future is higher than a child whose parents do not smoke and play sports. I think the same goes for gambling. I am in favor of parents explaining to their children what gambling is and what the risks are, but gambling is better when the child does not see it.