Topic: Never gamble in front of your kids. - page 61. (Read 7707 times)

I am still single so I am safe in this aspect but my brother is a big gambler and he accepted gambling long back. Besides, my brother has a good forehead and he earns a lot of money almost by gambling. I am a small online gambler so I don't invest much money here but I lost a lot of money this year. However children should be prevented from gambling as their thinking is very weak now so they can indulge in any kind of bad activities for gambling. There are many young children who have been caught by the police gambling since childhood and the suffering falls on their parents so more attention should be paid to the scandal..

ambling is not child's play, and the normalization of it in front of kids is a ticking time bomb. Do you want to know why? Because gambling companies love nothing more than to get people hooked young. Lets not be naive; they want lifelong customers.

We need to keep our kids away from this, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. While we're busy risking our money, we're also risking our children's future without even realizing it. Its time for parents to wake up. This isnt just fun and games; its the economy of addiction, and our kids are the collateral damage.

If we dont act now, this issue will become a family crisis, which could evolve into a societal crisis. Mark my words, do your part, and keep the gambling away from the young ones.

If we love our children, we must keep negative activities including gambling away from our children. And I personally am very secretive about my activities when gambling and I happen to not be an active gambler, so I only gamble outside the house when I am in a cafe enjoying a cup of coffee, with a few dollars and also a few hours.
And I don't want my son to get involved in gambling or anything that could harm him and his health, so I'm very careful. And I also always control my child's activities when playing with gadgets, and also always check their gadgets carefully after using them and also give advice about negative things, including gambling, so they don't open them when there are gambling advertisements.

I don't think you've carefully read my recent comments here, did you?
Else you'd have known that I'm not a constant (or in other words, daily or addicted) gambler who keeps doing it every single day. I do it once in a while and it was literally my bad luck that my daughter saw me doing it, so TBH I shared it with you guys here just so that even an addicted gambler don't do it in front of anybody whom he/she doesn't want to influence and doesn't want them to get into it at all.

The question arises for how long will you be able to keep your children away from gambling when you yourself are involved in gambling?

You may convince small Children that these things are not for your age but when they see their father daily spending time on gambling, the curiosity of the child keeps increasing. One day he or she will start playing and there is no way we can stop the children. if we want our children not to gamble, we need to end or limit our own gambling activities.

I think this is a case-to-case basis depending on how your kind views gambling as a whole.

As someone who grew up with a father who frequently brings me to arenas of cockfightings, I was not that influenced when it comes to his gambling activities. Sure, I was curious at a point that I even tried gambling away my money during my time in the arena (I was underaged btw) but the habit of me gambling came from my personal decision not to delve deeper into this act.

At the end of the day, what matters is the influence and teachings you bestow upon your children. Though I do agree that it is best to gamble away from your kids, even if you do it by mistake, it is not the end of the road as you can correct this by guiding them all throughout their journey.

Children today are smarter than children a few years ago. They can record what is happening around them more powerfully than children of a few years ago. That is why we have to hide activities they are not allowed to see yet so they do not record them in their memory. And I agree with keeping our children away from gambling for whatever reason because they are still growing, and don't let them grow up on the wrong path. We as parents must be responsible for their lives, and that starts from an early age. We also need to accompany them in learning something so that we can guide them so they don't take the wrong path.

Yup im not letting mine get anywhere near gambling. She has gotten a scratch card a few times for her birthday or for new years and i can see what not winning / expectation of winning with it does. Its just better not to have it till a certain age, not sure what that age is however. Live and learn i guess

It’s totally depends on your children knowledge,if they are sportive in nature.They won’t care about the your gambling involvement or gambling activities.The parents should not share about the loss in the gambling,if so the children will chase the loss of the parents after they stop gambling.This may leads to the children to become the gambling addict.Once the children get addicted into the gambling,it’s hard for the children to get away from the gambling addiction.The most important one is they keep increasing of the deposit money by the gambling addiction.

Me either.

I will refuse to introduce it. But if by the time that my child is grown up and an adult and decides to gamble, it's gonna be a personal decision that I cannot meddle.

As long as there's the job that will sustain the gambling activity and won't ask me my own money just to gamble, that's it.

Possible, when they see adults play it with some money on the side. That will tickle their minds and curiosity why adults do that.

Lol, no doubt about that. Kids these days are learning things way too fast. There was a Guinness world record of a 6 year old girl who developed a game.
I am sure all of us here were eating sand at that age. But yeah, keeping kids away from gambling should be a common sense that everyone should have.
In fact, no parent would want their children to learn gambling at least at a young age.

We can not say that we can control ourselves and that the reason why theres a gambler gamble in front of thier children which pretty bad for us once we know that thier children is too young to involve in gambling  cause children is they can do something once they are curious cause they want to try what they saw. So it's a bad idea if we gamble in front of our kids .

Card games?
I don't think those card games are being used in casino games for any purpose because those games were for fun.


You're correct. And as I already mentioned later, she was sleeping while I was gambling, but I don't know when she woke up and started watching me playing that game as it was late night. However, I believe that I should have played it somewhere else so that there would not have been any chance she would have noticed it. I'm taking utter care now whenever I gamble (I hardly do it nowadays so not an issue TBH).

In general, don't do anything you don't want your kids to try.
This includes getting drunk, smoking, taking drugs, swearing, being aggressive towards other people, fighting, abuse animals... Kids learn by imitating you so you can expect them to try all the things you do with their friends and other kids at school. You kick your dog, don't be amazed if a kid goes too far with it and beats a neighbor's dog to death.

Coming back to gambling, I wouldn't teach it to my child, as I don't want to be responsible if they start gambling at young age, but if they start on their own, I'll be there to help them be rational about it.

Obviously it is not recommended and maybe only stupid people are determined to do gambling in front of their children, I'm sure they already know that it's a very bad act but I don't know what the reason they do it in front of their children, even if there is a reason it certainly won't make sense to digest. Yes, that's right, as usually when we have free time with children during work holidays for example then things like that happen very often, they will approach us and see what we are doing for example with the cellphone that we are holding, they are very curious and want to see what we are looking at.

What you are doing is very good by speeding up the round to end gambling, winning or losing is secondary because we should always think about the interests of our children, how can we keep them from knowing what exactly we are doing in the cellphone, and well besides that, if indeed your money is still quite a lot in the online casino and does not allow you to quickly end the round then maybe there you can delay the gambling, give our children the opportunity to play with us while we still have free time for them, and you can continue later. It is honestly a very good and easy choice to do rather than you accept the negative impact that will be felt by your child someday.

Kids will surely be entertained on flashy games like slots and would probably watch you the entire gameplay. There are other games that kids can potentially be entertained this is why they will be attracted watching you. I'm sure the chance that they want to play it too is high, this is why we cannot let us be seen by kids playing on an online casino. It would be the triggering point of them to try gambling because of the curiosity we gave them.

I wonder if those card games that children play on old basic windows operating system before was once motivated those children to do gambling.

Many people are able to do good things because of friends and many people get involved in bad addictions because of friends. But parental awareness can go a long way in keeping their children safe. A child may forget something learned from friends.  But anything learned from parents cannot be passed on to a child. And this is why parents must refrain from gambling in front of their children. Otherwise, his children also will not hesitate to gamble

One should not gamble infront of the kids. Whenever we watch something in the mobile, kids used to come sit next to us and try to watch the mobile. What can be done, we need to stop watching it rather than saying the kid to go away and play. Same happens when we gamble using mobile or through any of the electronic devices. I used to gamble and sometimes my kid used to come closer to me. During those time I used to gamble faster few rolls and end up the session. At times this used to end with profit and most of the time it used to be losing. In such situation the urge continues, and I used to hide myself and try to recover the losses which is not the right way to gamble.

Every gambling and casino sites usually put a strict warning on the permitted legal age who should sign up on the site, this is because they know the possible effect it could have on under aged person who are yet to attend the legal gambling age as addiction maybe uncontrollable at that age, so it is advised strongly not to expose kids or or juveniles to gambling.

At that age of theirs most of them still stands to depend so much on their parents and guardians as they are yet to have a stable source of income for themselves as they are yet to attain legal working age in some countries or states/cities. Whenever they are craving to place a bet on a particular game because they feel will be a winner and they lack the funds to they may result to stealing for gambling.

Conclusively we should keep away any form thing that is suggestive of gambling or would expose them to gambling too early because if the realise they could make money from gambling they may result to getting addicted and using it as a source of income which can cause laziness to set in on a long run and may not be willing to want to get a job when they finally attain the age to work because they will think they can always make the money from gambling.

If they don't have a stable income and yet they are addicted to gambling, the worst thing that could happen is that they will steal money from their parents. As parents, we don't want to see that happen, as those who are not matured and get addicted might face a more serious problem. Therefore, we should ensure that they are prevented from gambling. It all starts at home, as they say; parents are meant to discipline their kids because if they do not, they will become a problem in society. I'm emphasizing this because gambling addiction will not only affect the life of the addicted gambler themselves but also the people around them.