Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 55. (Read 12692 times)

Let me give you a hug. Finally a soulmate who understand that kids not always repeat what parents do. Otherwise we would still be in stone age, and instead of talking about crypto, would be hunting animals with bows and spears.

By "gambling in front of kids" I understand that adults gamble, and a kid come to look what parents do. Not like he is in his room playing bricks and dolls, and all of a sudden father comes with his friend to play poker on a carpet, or brings his laptop with annoying loud sound on.

While reading your post I have caught myself thinking about how we gamble in front of kids. If we gamble alone (or not) online, or gamble IRL with other adults then I find it ok. If adults openly drink alcohol during gambling, use bad language, show acts of aggression, then I dont support such kind of gambling in front of kids.

Okay, it seems like many say that "kids will copy whatever their parents do," so if parents gamble, the kids will follow suit. But I still see cases where kids have different personalities compared to their parents. That means, to some extent, there are still kids who won't adopt the bad habits of their parents.

Now, compare your behavior with your parents' different behavior. There must be differences, whether it's worse or better... the key point is the differences in your attitudes (between the child and the parent). Even though no one guarantees this possibility, gambling in front of kids is still not a positive idea. Don't you have a better goal than doing that in front of your child? There are plenty of other more beneficial activities, like putting together a puzzle or maybe assembling a bike.

Kids try and imitate what parents do only on early age. Yes, they copy us, how we talk, gestures, things we do and etc. But probably only till age of 4, maybe 5. Because at that age parents are their ideals. But, as soon as they get to kindergarten, their individuality start to reveal, they start to socialize. They start to have their own opinion and prefer to copy or imitate their friends or surrounding, or someone around their age. From this point, even if I show 1000 times how I play poker, and kids friend Alex shows only once how he plays minecraft, poker will be forgotten immediately.

Like I've already said here, kids are very selective. From things they see us, adults doing, they would repeat only, lets say 10%. The rest they would do is what all kids around do. And maybe listen a bit what we teach and tell them. Starting from school, they already live their own small life. With their own problems and achievements. And from that time they copy less adults do.

Two scenarios: 1) while being very young, they wont remember much that parents gamble, they would remember that parents play something 2) school period - small life, where they would be busy doing their own stuff. I bet they would even be forced or asked to stay home, or together with relatives/friends, then running outside to hangout with friends to their rooms, to hangout with friend online. And they wont pay much attention to what parents do. (Everyone remember, how during family or friend meetings, celebrations and etc, kids (or you) prefer to sneak away than to sit with behind the table and listen adults talk).

We parents should really be that responsible because if we wont then expect that it would really be giving out that kind of negative effect because children are really that too fast when it comes on adapting on what they are seeing and since we are dealing with gambling then expect that they would really be doing on the same thing and this is something that should really be that avoided in the first place. It would be wise that you should really be keeping it quiet for you to deal up with your gambling activity. Never ever make yourself that been seen because they will really be definitely be
doing at the same thing when you arent watching due to curiosity and this is something that very common. Never ever gamble in front of your kids if you dont want for them to grow to be a gambler.

Parents shouldn't let their children do any activity without them knowing about it, and they should keep track of what they do, so just because parents aren't present at school, college, or anywhere else, it doesn't mean that the kids should be allowed to do anything they want, and when we talk about gambling, it can be done using electronic devices and parents should always check the devices to see if the children aren't doing something that they shouldn't be doing at that age.

However, as you said, the first step for them should be to keep them away from such things. Even if a parent is gambling, they should never do it in front of their children only to create curiosity within them about what they are doing and even if they don't ask about it, they will think about it later and might even want to try it which can have a bad effect on them.

That's true. Because the kids don't know how to identify what is good and bad, resulting them do the same thing as their parents do. From the kids' point of view, it is a good thing because they see their parents having a gambling activity without having any issues. Which is not good, a kid should enjoy being a kid. Growing up without being exposed to gambling as it won't do anything good for them. There will always be a right time for the kids to know what is gambling and make them understand the pros and cons of it. If the kids grow up being exposed to gambling, this will result in having a bad experience as a kid, especially if they have no supervision received from an adult.

I actually do this right now so they won't see me. Just within the day when they are at school or when they go to sleep upstairs with their mother. For me, it's important that they won't learn anything about gambling because we all know how the internet works now. Kids keep on tinkering on Youtube and social media and they might bump into the game that I am playing, after that they will probably ask questions when I get caught. It will be difficult to be in that position being questioned by your own kids.
Also, if the urge to gamble keeps on kicking then there's a way. Just run it with autobet then hide it with another browser. That way it is hidden then I can still hear the sound of the game and I will know if I hit something.
But, as much as possible, when they are around, I will not be playing and I like to keep it that way.

If we use online casinos to gamble, we also have to be careful if we want to gamble online, and we should not use smartphones when we are with them so that they don't get suspicious or curious. Often when we see if there is an incoming message on our smartphone or just want to read the news, children immediately approach us and ask lots of things. So just imagine if we were gambling and the children saw us gambling accidentally, there would definitely be lots of questions about gambling.

At least we have to look at the situation first before gambling and make sure no children see it. We can gamble when the children are asleep or at school. The important thing is that there are no children when we want to gamble.

That's true because, with the limits given by parents to their children, they will not try to cross those limits. Children will warn each other because they have received information from their parents that they should not cross that line. And even if their social circle or environment exceeds that limit, they will avoid it and think about going home. Of course, they will stay away from things that could cause them to experience bad things because their parents have told them not to approach or even get involved with these things. Their children will always carry out the strictness and discipline applied by parents towards their children because it is for their good and their parents will also approach their children.

Children will imitate what their parents do and they will even imitate their parents' attitudes. This will carry over until they grow up so that if their parents can set a good example, their children will always try to imitate these examples and in the future, they will also teach it to their children later. Well, it will depend on how parents can teach their children how to do things so that their children don't follow things that could have a bad impact on them.

For me, I think in a scenarios like this, for fathers who will not want to inculcate the habit of gambling into their kids, the best option should be to only gamble when your kids are not at around, because normally kids are meant to be in schools week days from 8a.m to 2p.m, or while kids are sleeping (i.e from 9p.m til 12mid night). Because anything that makes a man who has kids to gamble on either a desktop or laptops, his kids attention must surely be drawn to it, which will create the zeal in them wanting to try it out someday in the future. Henceforth, the above suggestion is the only best solution, since quitting is not an option to be considered.

Children don't have any knowledge of their own it's time to learn different things so when they see someone gambling especially parents they definitely try to try. And since gambling is not a good thing. Hence they are out of reach of children hence parents should gamble with caution if they have gambling addiction. Otherwise, children will follow them and learn to gamble from an early age and soon become addicted to gambling.

Kids would try and imitate what they see their parents do. That I'm quite sure of. It then depends on other factors on if those things copied from their parents arouse their curiosity even further.
Your kid would see you working behind the PC and sees graphs and data. All these the child doesn’t understand and probably wouldn’t seem interesting in the least. Kids would be more attracted to colorful objects and drawings that can attract and hold their attention.

This is not a joke because they love to do what they see from you especially what keeps you busy. I really experienced this stuff when I was playing online games in front of my children and they too started to create their own accounts and even had some good skills playing than me but when I realized they were not focusing on the things that benefit them more, I started to stop myself and eventually make some good excuse for them to tell them to stop as well. We should be doing good things in front of our kids in order not to influence them with bad habits and I started to realize the huge mistakes I have made when I watched them bet while playing 5vs5 games. Thankfully I was able to make a reason for them to stop and they are all now focusing on what benefits them the most which is their studies.

Yes, from the summary of your opinion, in my opinion, when children grow up, they should be able to choose jobs or activities that suit their character or self, because this concerns a person's personal rights, so it would not be good if there were any. there is coercion from parents and allowing their children to determine their own path in life, we as parents can only guide and provide good understanding.


Different but the essence remains the same, namely gambling, and gambling is bad behavior, and if parents are caught gambling then it is very likely that children will also follow their parents' behavior, as the saying goes "the fruit does not fall far". tree." But if the child grows up and doesn't end up like what his parents did, namely being fond of gambling, then he and his parents will be lucky.

Yes, it's good to show more positive activities, it will be better, not only sports, for example doing work like washing the car in front of the house with your child is also good, whatever it is, as long as it shows more positive activities, every child will definitely follow it because small children are good imitators. well and they are very quick to learn what they see in their eyes, especially when their parents do it.

Make sure not to show and display negative activities, for example gambling is not good, there are even many other negative activities that can harm your own children, you should always avoid anything while at home with your children or family, always make sure you gamble in a closed room when children fall asleep at night or play gambling outside the house.

True, children often imitate adults. And even when children grow up and are already teenagers, they have their own model of behavior, but nevertheless they unconsciously continue to look at their parents and consider everything they do to be true and correct. And if the father is sitting at the computer spinning slots or playing cards, then children with a high chance will then use the same behavior model. Only if such a father is not aggressive, because then it will cause rejection in the children.

Funny thing, my kid often see me working behind PC, all those tables, graphs, data. I am not 100% sure that when it will be time to select university to get a higher education, that something related with finances would be selected, as the kid is more interested in art, drawing, creating things. The logic of "kid will copy what parents do" does not work.


Addicted to gambling and parents that gamble are two different kind of parents. Addicted parents indeed might trigger false vision of gambling and future addiction as well. Example, the kid saw I ate a pill (omega-3) in the morning, during day place a bet on favourite team, a later got a glass of wine during birthday party. Does it means that kid gonna grow as drug addicted alcoholic that is addicted to gambling? I think we know that answer.

I would add to this that what is usually prohibited causes even greater interest and curiosity, especially in children, although I have also noticed this in adults. If they find out that a case of addiction was hidden from them, it will be serious, and I think this will definitely happen because one of their friends or relatives will spill the beans. And also children can hear about this while the wife screams at her husband not to play anymore.

It is still better to play sports in front of children, and not to gamble. Now I'm doing it.

This happens because child curiosity is very high and they really know what they want so that what they have to do, they don't understand good and bad things so the role of parents is to be able to provide understanding to their children.
We all know that gambling is not very good for children or teenagers who have reached adulthood and what needs to be done is to direct children to be smarter in doing every activity they want.
As long as we always supervise and forbid them from accessing things about gambling, we can put more emphasis on them not starting to gamble and when we do this, children can slowly think that gambling is not good for them.

The living environment and also the people around them can have an influence on child development, and when parents forbid or do not allow children to be in that kind of environment then, I sure they will never see gambling activities anywhere.
I know that not all parents can always supervise activities or direct a good environment for them, but at least when there are restrictions they can avoid them.
Moreover, child still has fear of his parents anger and if this prohibition is really stated firmly then it can be very effective in helping the child development to avoid bad things.

That is true, even a slight discussion of gambling or if the children heard about it, they will be curious and who knows, maybe they will research about it. That's why as a parents, we should stay away from gambling in front of our children. And most likely since we are in the stage that it is acceptable with online gambling, we really need to be very careful in front of them.

We as parents should set a good example. Of course, not everyone is a good parent, but at least we should try to avoid this kind of slip specially if we are a gambling addicts. It will really denote that gambling is good if our children are exposed early.

Children can imitate what adults do easily because somehow, they can do it. If adults are gambling near them, the children can see it in a way that the adults don't, so the children can see and remember it so they can try it themselves. This is why we have to be careful in carrying out activities if there are children around us, and we shouldn't do anything that could make them curious, for example, gambling on a cellphone. We have to be able to divert their attention to other things so they won't ask about gambling or other things they don't need to know. Parents must keep their children away from gambling or other negative things so that they do not try to do it.