Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 49. (Read 12632 times)

Hit me with a story of a kid being gambling addicted and ruining his life. That would be a perfect counter for my post.

Yes, gambling addiction is real and it destroys lives. But it destroys only adult lives who seeks a solution of financial issues in gambling. Ever saw a 10yo kid that has 50 bucks left till salary, dont know how to pay rent and creditors are calling him all the time? I didnt. Only adults destroy their lives in gambling.

I'll give some more info to think about. We all know how bad investment destroys lives. How people lose money on buying wrong assets, how they sell them during panic. We all like to say, DYOR, think, analyse market. In short, investment is not a joke, its complicated, it destroys lives. And on the other hand we teach kids about Bitcoin and investing from the very childhood.

Why then investing is something that must be taught from early age, so that kid can start investing as soon as possible (or loosing money as soon aa possible), and in the same time we should hide fact of gambling existence, because (it is never proved) the kid will obligatory get addicted and ruin his live (and not gamble for fun, to test luck, theory of probability, learn to add 6+9 after all).


I have told numerous times in this topic - talk with your kids, teach your kids, study your kids, spend time with your kids, explain everything to your kids, give and show examples, let them get experience, let them understand how world works. But people are like monkeys: "ahh-ahh, gambling=bad=bad=bad, uuu-uu", "oohh-ohhh, watch=addiction, uu-uuu", "I will never tell, show, explain, because someone once told me, that he was told, that in a page was written".

Better check what your kids watch on YouTube or search in the internet, than hide that you once a month place a dollar bet.

The future and growth and development of child depends on how parents provide education and direction to their children, no parent will let their children be exposed to various activities that they should not be familiar with, such as gambling activities.
We are gamblers, we know very well what the risks and impacts of gambling are, so when we see children who have known and tried to gamble, we will definitely feel very regretful about such incidents.
I personally have seen children go to betting places several times and This is very sad.
They should start to learn and understand how to grow and develop through education or playing but have entered circle that might make things difficult for them in the future, they have the potential to become gambling addicts.

Even though I gambler, I continue to keep my children from doing the same thing as I did regarding gambling.
I will never be willing to see my child experience gambling addiction in the future and all parents out there should also feel the same way and they must really protect or prevent all forms of gambling activities from their children.

Children nowadays are familiar with the internet, they use mobile phones personally and of course this has the potential to make mistakes, including starting to get to know gambling.
Every parent must be able to limit and supervise all their children activities when using cell phones, plus provide education and protect them from environments that might have bad impact on these children.
This is duty as parent.

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.

Gambling can really ruin lives. I know a few people who were acquaintances who are addicted to gambling and thus ruined their life. It may be a hearsay to you, but it's really happening. Gambling addiction and consequences are real. If you don't believe it because it hasn't happen to you or to anyone you know of, then consider yourself lucky. Because no sane person would want to experience the harsh repercussions of gambling dependency such as having financial debts, ruined relationship with loved ones, and having bad credit history due to mismanagement of funds.

I've also read many confessions about their gambling addiction and how it destroyed their lives in different instances. There were people also asking for help and advices on how to combat it and how to quit successfully. There's more to it than you think. Although these things aren't developed overnight, so it's most of the time a you-error. And if you don't want this to happen to your kids or to your nephews or nieces, then you should at least do not let them be involved in gambling and tell them the cons of it once they reach a certain age to distinguish whether it's worth the risk or not.

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.

As growing up, the best example always from the people that surround you, first thing is the parent who are showing what business are they dealing in their everyday life, if the child keep on seeing that they are open from playing and they are enjoying or they are okay with what they are involve with, there's always that chance that the same thing the kids will follow.

If you want to be a responsible parent, it's always best to keep your children away from the things that you understand which possible to ruin their lives, unless you have that full time to guide them when worse comes when they already involve into gambling, which is for sure you don't as there are more things in life that you needed to take care of.

Yes, proof. I need a proof that kid after watching parents gambling will become addicted to gambling. And most likely kids life is going to be ruined. That is the argument, that is what people on numerous pages here mention as a reason why nobody should gamble in front of them.

I have opposite vision. I am not 100% sure that kid will be addicted. I am not even sure he will be interested in gambling. So far nobody cant say nothing except “watch=addicted”, without giving any explanation. Just such statement.

“Observation learning and example with door. Peoples opinion here - kid see parents open door, try to do it himself, learns how to do that, becomes addicted to opening doors. Hope you understand my logic. That kids not always get addicted to what they see.

I don't think that any responsible parent will gamble in front of their kids. And those who will play gamble in front of their kids are insanely irresponsible parents or maybe they are addicted gambler. Children learn what they see in front of them, in this case, if they see good things, they will learn good things, and if they see bad things, they will learn bad things. And I think gambling under stress is a bad thing.  It is the responsibility of all responsible parents and gamblers not to gamble in front of their children.

As a parent then we are really that aware and experienced enough on whats good and whats bad for our children. We might be doing gambling but we cant really deny to ourselves on what are the imposed risks that it could possibly give into someones life if they would really be tending to engage. This is why it would really be just that normal that we would really be avoiding them as much as we could or as far as possible since we do know on what are the risk that it could possibly give. Also, we do know that parenting cant really be perfect on which means that on the time that we would really be having that opportunity on telling them about on whats the real deal about gambling and other things in life then it would really be giving them at least the idea on what it is and could
really that avoid it naturally even if you arent that around which this is something that we should really minding about.

You make a fair point.  It's only natural as parents that we want to protect our kids from getting hurt or running into trouble.  But keeping them wrapped in bubble wrap their whole childhood won't do them any favors later on.  Kids gotta explore things for themselves and even mess up some times.  That's how they gain moxie and learn to stand on their own two feet when theyre grown and  i say let them skin their knees and get some calluses once in awhile.  It'll serve them well down the road.  But hey, it ain't easy watching your little ones take tumbles.  We just gotta find the right balance, I suppose.

Parents are one of the people who have a big influence on a child and of course parents are also a child's main concern in any case because it is clear that parents always direct and teach their children in any case, especially nature and behavior, and if a child sees his parents involved in gambling activities then obviously a child will at least question with a high level of curiosity about what exactly his parents are doing, Even though it is unlikely for them to directly plunge and get involved, if their parents always show their gambling activities, whether intentionally or not, it will still trigger children's curiosity to be higher and there is a high possibility that there is potential for them to do the same thing, or the intention is to follow what their parents do.

A child will not immediately know that it is gambling but what comes to their mind is "it looks like fun", as we know that lately children are more often playing cell phones connected to the internet network, I used to see them watching cartoon videos and on the other hand online gambling promotions are increasingly circulating on several social media and obviously the chances are getting greater for a child to enter and get involved in one of the online casinos they find when playing cell phones. The point is that parents must be able to limit their activities, some are allowed to be shown and some must be kept out of the reach of children.

Without proof? how can someone give you a proof like this? what @goxcraft meant based on his example is an analogy. And to tell you, there is type of learning called observational learning or social learning. Your kid won't be able to open the door if he didn't see you open that door.

It doesn't necessarily mean that everything we do, our kids will do also. BUT most of the time, they always from what we do, what we say and what we teach them.

I'm not sure if you hate the guy who you are replying with   even me I can't think of a negative effect on a kid directly if he sees his parents gamble than increased in gambling problem to a kid in the future, but surely there will be a negative effect on that family, more probably financial consequences.

There's nothing wrong saying bad examples or bad effects of gambling, because it is true at the end of the day.

Bottom line for me would be as a parent, my goal is to explain as much as possible about things in life, give as much as possible experience, than ban, hide or forbid things. I would gamble in from of my kid without hiding. Iif he shows any interest to it, I would explain everything I know. The sooner kid understand consequences and possibilities, the better it would be. It would be worse if someone else shows and teaches my kid about gambling, gsmbling with my kids money. Because I would never lie.

Those who say it is better to hide and not to gamble in front - go ahead. I just wonder what else you want to overprotect your kid from. What else from your mind the kid gonna get addicted from watching. With such too much care and cautious over everything, with some many “if/would/could” you are not doing much good to a kid. I just want to see your face, when you question yourself why your kid is already 30yo, still lives with you, have no intention to getting marries and dont want to work.

Many parents are unaware of this situation in gambling. Parents act as the greatest teachers for children. Every child's parents do what they think is best. They prefer to learn that work seriously. Children learn most through imitation and will learn whatever their parents do during this time. If both parents in the family gamble or talk about betting in front of the child, I can guarantee that the boy will learn to bet one day. Now the question is how do the heads of the family want to nurse their children?

As a child, your curiosity will increase and that is why we as parents show good things since the children are small, apart from the parents, perhaps the playing environment will also have a lot of impact on the child behavior when they grow upIt depends on the family and environment, many people say that the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, likewise, children behavior may or may not be the same as that of their parents this is our role as parents in protecting and preventing our children from gambling, to be honest, for me personally, I want to see my children grow up good and far from drugs or gambling, apart from that, no parent wants their child to become a criminal even though their parents have always been evil.

I get what you're saying - not every kid is going to do everything their parents do.  Kids get older and figure out what they're into, and it's not always the same stuff as their folks. 

But if little Joey sees Mom or Dad spending all weekend at the casino or racetrack every week, he might start thinking gambling is no big deal.  And that could lead to him developing some unhealthy gambling habits of his own down the line, even if he doesnt get full-on addicted.

Now sure there are probably some decent things kids can pick up from parents who gamble too - learning about risks or setting limits with money and stuff. 

Bottom line though, the best way for parents to keep their children from ending up with bad gambling behaviors is to be straight with them about what gambling is and why it matters to do it responsibly.

The kids imitate only selected things; things that are easy to do. For example one adults regular day: wake up, cook breakfast, work, cook dinner, wash dishes, do some house routine, brush teeth and go to sleep. In between do some mobile talks, check social media. If kids imitate parents and those who surround them - it means they will do all the same. But instead we parents ask and remind kids do this and that. Because they busy with their own things of interest, their own routine.

What I try to tell people, that kids wont do 100% their parents do. They wont even copy 1/4 of what parents do. I find it strange, that from all activities they see us adults or parents do, people say that exactly gambling will become the activity they are obsessed with.

Another notice. If kids see us parents gamble all the time, guess what they do? Most people say that they will also start to gamble. But in reality, the kid will come and say “daddy/mummy, please go and play with me”.

Yes playing gamble in front of kids it's fools work they learn it with their claver mind easyly and after that they try it alone. We should make distance when we gambling that is more helpful. If we are not aware with it in future that will create huge problem because the lost money in doing it alone. So parents be aware with their children when they are doing gambling stay away their children when they are gambling.

We really shouldn't set an example for anyone around us, especially children, because a child will quickly learn what he sees, let alone played by his own parents, so he will think that it is a fun game and will try the game outside without his parents knowing because The child will store the memory in his memory. I think it is a bad example that should not be shown to anyone so it is best to never gamble in front of children.

To me that's logical because that's what most kids do right? They imitate the people that's around them and I don't think that it's fair that you're saying that they won't copy you if you're eating vegetables but if the environment introduced to the child is where you're all eating vegetables daily or most of the time, they wouldn't have any problem with that eating part because they're going to be accustomed to it, now if they're the kind of kid that's introduced to fast early on and they see the people around them eat those fast food shit then you'd be right.
I guess @goxcraft don't got no more things to talk about so he's going to go back to the most generic answer about this issue. I don't know much how it will affect the kid though and I don't think it's going to be addiction, what I do think is going to be the effect of gambling to the kid though is that it's going to warp how they think of money and getting introduced too early to stuff that involve money is going to make them think of stuff that's inappropriate for their age.