Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 6. (Read 7256 times)

Our children often do not what we tell them or forbid or teach them, but precisely what we do ourselves. That is, when a child sees their parents smoking or drinking, they will probably do it themselves at a fairly young age. Regarding your situation, we can say that it is bad that you allowed your daughter to see that you are gambling. It depends on her age, if she is still small, less than 6-7 years old, then she will probably simply forget about this incident if she no longer sees you playing. If she's an adult, she'll probably remember this. In any case, you need to correctly explain to her that this is not worth doing and that you should never play in front of her again.

Since we know that children are always eager to learn very fast especially from what they see and from their parents. We need to try as much as possible even though we have a particular game we want to bet on that would be profitable, it is better we avoid doing that at the front of the kid so their mindset will not make them to keep asking what one is doing and how they can go about it. We need to be wise and avoid the pressure of gambling in front of kids because they would securely want to learn and do the same thing there parent is doing. It is very important we are wise and play the parent role very conscious so that we don't end up create scenes that would become an addict to the child.

All what you have said is truth, but this aspect of not regular discussing about gambling issues with your family members where your child is present, for me I don't see much big difference in it. Though it is not good to speak gambling issues with your children or never allow them to be around you when you are talking about gambling, but the truth be told wether you tell them or not a child that will gamble will gamble, and the one that will not, will not try it. The reason of me saying this is that I have came across many homes where a chronic gambler don't have a gambling child or children. And also seen a situation where the father that is not a Gambler gave birth to gamblers. Most at times I feel that environment influences people and pair groups. As children grow up, they don't only learn from their parents but learn from outside the home. And most of what they learn outside becomes more dominant in their life than what they learn at home. And it now looks as if they learn what they knew at home not knowing most of them are from outside.

Every child should receive moral education. And the most important way to acquire moral education is religious education. If a child does not understand the difference between good and bad then that knowledge cannot bring any improvement in the life of that child. Most children do not know whether gambling is good or bad. If gambling is bad then the child needs to understand how terrible its effects can be. If you fail to explain the bad side of gambling to your child then the child will become addicted to gambling and destroy his life as well as the family.

Need to know moral education for stay safe for an example below.



"Don Juan" is a satirical epic by Lord Byron in English literature. Lord Byron himself is the hero of this epic.

The story in brief:

Don Juan's mother (Donna Inez) was a divorced woman. She used to visit her boyfriend to fulfill her own carnal desires. But she would take her teenage son Joan to her boyfriend's (Don Alfonso) house. When Juan's mother spent time alone with her boyfriend, Joan would leave Juan with her boyfriend's newlywed wife (Donna Julia). Juan becomes attracted to his boyfriend's newly married beautiful wife. Thus an immoral relationship was formed with Juan, the beautiful wife of Alfonso 23. And Juan becomes so close to the illicit relationship that she can't have it.

There was a lesson here. Juan's mother had her study on her own syllabus, never teaching moral education and the difference between right and wrong. She thought there was filth in religious education. There is a detailed discussion about the desires of the gods and goddesses. She thought that if she taught religion, his child would know all about these desires. So she did not want to give moral education or religious education to her children. But anyway she finds her son attracted to this immoral teaching. Thus he brought dire consequences in his life.

So I think it is every parent's responsibility and duty to teach all children moral education, religious education and understanding the difference between good and bad.

How do you say that the contract argument the OP makes about this is a strange argument.
A child directly follows his family during childhood. You naturally try to match two families where there is no turmoil in one family or there is no bad relationship between the members of that family resulting in no quarrel or any abuse in that family. But if you observe another family where trouble is constant and abuse is constant, from which family a child will grow up well.
Of course the child will have normal growth from that family where there is peace. If you abuse in front of your child, you will see that your child is also learning those abuses in front of you. If you don't abuse or if your child doesn't hear abuse, he will never express it through his mouth. Also if you gamble and regularly discuss gambling issues with your family members where your child is present then surely at some point of age he will talk about this gambling.

We have to be careful in preventing this because today's children don't like being forced to obey their parents' wishes. Let them understand what their parents want so that they can understand that their parents are trying to educate them well and so they can be better prepared for circumstances that have really changed.

However, we must try to instill awareness in our children not to get involved in gambling because some dangers can result in their lives being ruined. They can indeed get information about gambling from their friends, but most of them will only invite our children to gamble directly. If not accompanied by the correct information, they can get involved further in gambling without being able to quit gambling easily.

Gambling in front of the kids is not a good idea, i wont advise for such, if you're going to gamble, then know it that it will be your own decision alone and influencing the children about it will make no any sense at all, moreover, children are not to start gambling at their tender age except they have been independent and no more called children, some of the things we do, they see, and instead of us to set a model for them to follow, they may only see the other asper in us which is a wring impression.

One of the things that can most neutralize the idea that children do not watch games of chance and that the digitalization of life does not affect them is to Involve them in some sport. For example, my 8-year-old son plays soccer 3 days a week and that is enough for him to go out to play and enjoy his favorite sport. When he arrives he is sometimes very tired and the only thing he has to do is sleep to recover , because he is doing Something that is ideal for his age, a Sport is always good, because it entertains you, you make friends, that is something that should be taken advantage of, so children must be kept busy, play sports, get them into music, because it is very important for their growth so they do not have time to review things that they should not and they are given a better Quality of life.

Yes because sometimes a child does it on their own without our knowledge or their parents, they are easy to hear, see and learn something very quickly which makes their parents sometimes unaware which in the end is surprised when they see or hear that their child can do something they never expected before, a child is easy to adapt to everything especially for something that makes them feel very curious. Therefore, this is why we as parents must really take care of their relationships and direct them to good things as well as avoiding bad things.

Seeing, realizing and identifying a potential is the initial stage in terms of prioritizing preventive measures, and simply put, we as parents must really be able to protect and direct a child to good things and also avoid bad possibilities, and also besides that if for example we are a gambler then it is clearly better to hide our gambling habits, after all there are still quite a lot of times that we can use to gamble such as when a child is at school or when they are asleep.

It is we adults that we know that we are gambling with caution and we know the pros and cons of the gambling. The kids and children who see their parents gambling, won't know any other thing but just to gamble. So they only want to copy the things that they see physically and what is running in their parents' minds, while gambling, they are unable to know about this. So that is why the kids think that since their parents always gamble, they should do the same.


Unless you tell the kids that you are gambling with all the good and bad things, it is more dangerous for the kids to get influenced to gamble just by watching the adults doing so. So in my point of view, either stop gambling in front of kids and if you can't, then at least take your kids in confidence and tell them what is gambling with all its drawbacks in particulars.

Prevention is highly recommended so that your child is not involved in gambling. However, digitalization has now penetrated the world of gambling.

Covering up the world of gambling also won't have a big impact, because out there children can get information about online gambling from their peers. If that's the case, giving advice and more on providing an understanding of how the world of gambling is, both the immediate benefits and the bad impacts of gambling is more necessary than just preventing gambling.

Preventing is always better than curing. We must continue to protect children from getting involved in gambling. The way we can do this is by not showing our gambling activities in front of children. They will find a way to gamble on their own, especially now that they can find it via the internet via their devices. If we as parents cannot educate them well, it is only a matter of time before they will get involved with gambling.

If they are already familiar with gambling, it will be difficult for us to control it. This is especially true if they are not yet stable in controlling themselves because, at their age, their emotions still cannot be controlled. We must always take precautions for the good of our children, so we must continue to make efforts to supervise them well.

that is a true fact, because it is clear that children tend to have an alert attitude and quickly grasp what they see, especially since what they see is something that is interesting to them, with gambling which is a game, it is clear that children can have desires to play it after they see it, but they won't understand that gambling is something that involves money because I think they are only interested in the flow of gambling which is an interesting game. However, if they have been familiar with gambling since childhood then it is likely that when they grow up they will no longer feel strange about gambling and perhaps they will even fully understand gambling.

Also, in my opinion, it's not a good idea to gamble in front of children or small children, because that could make them interested in playing. Also I don't think there are parents who teach or introduce their children to gambling, I think that is a wrong way to educate children. because they shouldn't be familiar with gambling, as time goes by they will become familiar with gambling themselves because they can't be far from cellphones and the internet, which allows them to become familiar with gambling. and maybe in the future they could become addicted to gambling, but in my opinion that is a terrible thing.

I do say that being a responsible gambler doesn't change anything when it comes to little ones, one has to be extremely careful. Come to think of it, if the little children started gambling just because their parents are gambling, but couldn't control themselves and be responsible in doing it the way their parents are. That will be so disastrous. Adult things are adult things, exposing children to such is a violation and an abuse, and illegal by law, which is punishable under many counts. So, no matter how we believe we are in gambling, we should know that it is an adult activity, and for this, it is better we entirely take it out of our children's reach.

If our children are such that are opportune to use our gadgets, it is better that we lock some applications to avoid them seeing the adult contents and activities. This is no matter how we trust our children as all these adult things are so physiological and we might not know when it would infest them. Lastly, if we would want to gamble, there are many places we can do it when we are 100% sure they are not around. I am sure you are doing both yourself and your children a whole lot of good by doing that.

True, we never know or we can't really tell if how those young kids going to adopt whatever they are seeing or hearing from us, most of the times we are just being surprise that they already saying it or doing it, we will just notice that when we already witnessing it with our own eyes, so we need to be more careful if we don't want to expereinced things like that.


Prevention also for me is the best way, treating things with a careful actions will prevent our young love ones to adopt whatever gambling that we are involve, if we are not willing to see them engaging with that same situation like us, we should always be aware on how or what things that we will show them and what are those that we should not.

If you have reservations about gambling, why engage in it at all?

My father taught me how to play Poker and Blackjack when I was 10 years old. He wasn't a gambler himself, but he enjoyed the games, especially poker. I've never had issues with gambling. He warned me about the dangers of gambling because his parents were addicts, which is why he avoids gambling. With the right boundaries in place, your child won't become a problem gambler.

I think I have found about sex when I was in kindergarten. I did not know all the details and nuances, but knew some bad words and that man and woman must do something together. Kids told me that. They found about that from elder friends, brothers and sisters. I did not show off that knowledge, not in front of parents. But when older kids talk, I knew what they were talking about.

The same will be with gambling. Adults hide it from kids, but kids turns to be knowing what it is already from other kids. Believe me. And social media will only fasten time when they get familiar with gambling. I think there is no solution to that. You cant ban all the internet content and not let your kid be friend with other kids. Do what you want, but the information will leak anyway.

Some people think or have a way of seeing things differently from Others and that is something that is respected, personally when doing any type of Action in a casino, it is not good for the kids to be there because they usually repeat or try to imitate role models, and we are role models with children, they always want to do the same thing that we do, that is something that cannot be avoided, what I think about this type of thing is that when we are Looking for the best for them, is that their childhood should not be interrupted with this type of things, unless it is explained to hem and they are made to see clearly that this type of games is for when they are adults, if so and they manage to tempt Well it will be better.

Of course, and sometimes we don't realize that it turns out that the child can already do something that we never expected before or for example in terms of speech, sometimes we don't know about when they learned it and how they learned it and all of that they did on their own without our knowledge or especially the parents and I also saw this scenario where my brother was surprised when he saw his son apparently saying harsh language that should be avoided. This does not rule out the possibility that this scenario can also occur in gambling, or the point is that a child can participate in gambling activities carried out by adults without the knowledge of these adults.

On the other hand, I understand that this does not always happen or mean that it cannot be confirmed, but what we must pay attention to here is that isn't prevention always better than cure? of course, therefore this is the importance of considering and paying attention to whatever is around us before we finally make a decision, and someone who is still underage is an age where the child is in the learning phase or meaning that they are like a sponge, always able to absorb whatever they see and hear, this is why parents are always required to direct a child.

I don't see gambling in front of children as bad as you have described it here. Stealing is too harsh to compare to gambling; stealing is forcefully taking what belongs to others; gambling is not that way.
 
I know it's not that healthy to gamble in front of your children, as it could have some negative impact on them, but you can still control that and put them in the right place. But when it comes to stealing or the adult thing you mentioned, it shouldn't be compared at all.
 
One thing about parenting is teaching your children the right way to go and for them to have basis knowledge about things you think are very necessary, and it's left for them to decide which step to take from there.