Any engagement with gambling and related activities must be hidden if you want to be a role model to them. I know that there's a kind of secretive here but you as a parent, you don't show your kids how you gamble, how emotional you are when doing it because they imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with.
Kids see you go to work every day, that you always have money, how happy you are when you buy yourself, a new car for example, but I see no kid today that will rush to start working as soon as possible
So that "imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with" might not even happen. But, if you hide everything gambling related (that they will find out anyway), you limit them with new knowledge. Being smart and having extra knowledge was never bad.
It's not about the new knowledge if it's about gambling. We can introduce that to them later on when they're on the right age, there's so much for them to explore but not with gambling. As a parent, we know what they can be if they will be introduced to gambling at an early stage. That's what I think and I know that kids are curious with what they want to know but that doesn't make them smart if they know about gambling.
That brilliant mind they've got might put them into jeopardy by knowing it and then being curious about it. It's highly likely that they're going to try it when it's playing on their minds and that's why the trick is there and it's best not just to teach them if they're very young. Or, you just apply the rule of being the parent and you can teach what you want to your kid but to many, we won't do that probably.
How can gambling be not a new knowledge for them if it is about knowing or not knowing what it is. A little remark: not every knowledge about something that kids gain, are taught them to make them start doing it early.
I see you have mentioned "on the right age". What is this age then? Please dont say 18
When they are 18, they will teach parents about gambling. Until 18, they are all kids to me. Of course I wont give a detailed explanation to a 2yo kid, but someone 12+ is old enough to know the truth.
You have mentioned that they are going to try it as soon as they see or know it. Just curious, when was the first time you saw a cigarette or someone smoking? I think you were younger than 18. Even if you havent tried it, I believe parents convinced or found right words for you to understand that you can either try it at 18 or 21, or not try at all, and you have listened to them. Why dont you think same can work with gambling?
I have never done smoking nor drink alcoholic beverages at all. It's just a different way of my parents on how they've grown me but it's true that because of curiosity, I've learned things on my own. I think you're right sir in all that you've said, we've got our ways of teaching our kids and if you think that 12 is the right age, that's it.
That's because a loser is a loser. And I don't know, there's that taboo in our minds that we don't want others to see our losses. What we wanna do is to only show the wins that we have and that's why losses are being hidden because of that thought. I'm not sure for the others but that's what the majority is doing.
And what matters whether you win or lose, and if you hide them. You shouldn't show it in front of your kids. Any engagement with gambling and related activities must be hidden if you want to be a role model to them. I know that there's a kind of secretive here but you as a parent, you don't show your kids how you gamble, how emotional you are when doing it because they imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with.
Yes hiding our practice from children is much more better because most of them could feels you are doing the right thing, and what children does is that they always thinks whatever thing their parents are doing is the right option for them to follow less until they came of age to be able to detects what is bad or good for them. I also love that gambling warning that says only only 18+ which shows that anyone below that age aren't permitted to gamble or go to the casino house to gamble because at then they can't make their person decision on how to go about with their gambling lifestyle.
They think that their dads and moms are superheroes and whatever we do, they'd surely going to imitate as well. And that's why as a parent, we have the responsibility to keep things away from them until they're on the right age. Parenthood differs from each culture but it's best as a parent to just keep them away from all forms of gambling. Let them do their own thing when they get older and more mature and earns their own money but hopefully they won't develop as a gambler.
