We have so many gambling casino representatives here. Did they ruined any forum members life? Is there anyone here who has a relative or close friend whos life was ruined by gambling? Or our experience of "gambling ruin lives", "gambling is bad" is build on articles, video stories or movies? If a kid is easily addicted to things, it is easy to influence on him, then gambling yes, can be dangerous for him and it is advisable not to gamble in front of such kids. But he can similar be addicted to fast foot, smoking, drinking, overeating, overspending money. Solution to whole problem of this topic is easy - know your kid.
Maybe what he wants to convey is to give a limits on his child while he is not ready to gamble yet. We know that our children may not have good responsibility in various things, including controlling emotions. Your solution is correct, we have to know our child and his character, but, our focus as parents, should be to give warnings not to gamble, smoke and so on, as long as he cannot accept the risk to himself. Even if in the end they become addicted to something, then at that time we as parents need to accompany them. If it can be stopped, of course, it will be good, if not, at least you can control it. But, before they understand all the risks, it is best to prevent them from gambling, even if their parents were former gamblers, active gamblers to stay away from them while gamble.
Limits are good for children, they always serve to put a Stop to what they want to do and it is not bad to be able to have something for them in their training, I prefer that a parent, before giving his child a game, teaches him something Useful , to a Task that can make him defend himself against anything or an event, if a parent , instead of buying him games or making him see that the child needs that, should teach him to play sports, have a discipline that learns music and learns a language, That is what you should see, there is no need to talk about other things that take you to a Truck where things are not well seen.
A child along with his Parents has to have another type of training so that he is not more than the same, if not better, that is why he must be away from Gambling casinos , from things that harm his mind , they are Small , so they must learn things that are Useful for their life and Things that make them be better people and not idiots who only Play Games.