Topic: Parents And Their Children In Gambling.. - page 10. (Read 9203 times)

Yes, it is fun for people with money, and the guys in question are people with money, so they can afford spending those amounts of money on entertainment once in a while. They can't do it every day, especially Marcus Jordan definitely shouldn't do it often, but once in 5 or 7 years, why not?

My point is, Michael Jordan has not spoiled his son, as some people suggest.

Addiction can lead you any where. If you are addicted in gambling so you will never see what you have you just go for it and addicted will give everything in this field. But there is luck matters too. And one more thing is that the whole family can be gambler too.

Absolutely, mostly the male child reasons like the father more closely than the mother. So whatever thing they are doing they should set a limitation between them and their children otherwise their children would be full of what they display (parental behavior), so in terms of his son gambling and living extravagant life, this is the number 1 character his got from the father and much exposure to wealth and money otherwise i don't think such character would enveloped the son.

The personal example of parents plays the most important role in the education of children. Children imitate the behavior of the adults around them. Parents can play whatever they want. But at the same time it is important how adults react in the presence of the child to this or that situation. How parents explain their actions and what their priorities are above all else is also important.

Jordan can spend his own money to his own liking. Money earned by himself can be squandered, whether he win or lose thats his problem. and he definitely has the capabilities to earn it back even if its 5mm.
Personally I feel the son Marcus should only spend the money that he earns. Maybe he has his own family trust funds that gives him 1mm every month?
Then again its just my personal point of view. If Michael Jordan doesn't mind, who are we to mind?

But maybe for rich people, gambling can become a kind of lifestyle and maybe some of them play gambling to get a cooperation agreement between the two.
A lot can happen if we make gambling a lifestyle but most will get something bad out of gambling.
And parents should still pay attention to their children so they don't get caught up in gambling, especially if they get addicted to gambling because it is difficult to cure.
And if the parents often play gambling, maybe they need to reduce it for the sake of their children because someday, their children will know that their parents often play gambling and that can cause many problems that arise in their family.

We cannot just simply assume Michael did not do his part as a parent.
I'm wondering, why ya'll quick to crucify Michael for being a bad parent or not instilling discipline and something like that?
This might've happened once, and right after his son posted it on social media, it might've never happened again.
I mean, there's one point in our younger lives that we tend to go discover what these adults were doing and out if curiosity, we tend to imitate what they're doing, and what I meant to imitate it does not automatically mean they got it from their parents (though Michael is undeniably into gambling), but it could also be that they saw it a hundred or thousand times from different adult people.
Now, how do ya'll know Michael have never done anything about it after he found out what happened?
Don't you think he just let it pass? And did not do something to discipline his son?
Remember, when we grow up, it's not always what the parents taught us turns out to be what we are right now, as an adult.
Because, as an adult, we all have the ability to think on our own way. I mean, majority of the parents out there did not teach their children how to kill, steal, and other criminal activities, but why we have seen a lot of people like these in our local news? Right?
But don't get me wrong, discipline is a good start while your young.

At the end each one of us is responsible for our own actions, so once your kids become legal adults even if you can give them an advice or two they can always ignore to hear you out and make several mistakes in the process, that is part of growing up and there is not much which can be done to avoid this, the only thing you can hope for is that you have at least teach them enough about life so whatever mistakes they make are relatively small and they do not ruin their lives in the process.

instilling discipline, best practices and other good behaviour is indeed best when they are still young. in this way, they can go over and over again from what they have been taught, and those will be their reminder if in case they change their path later on in their lives. it will be their guide throughout their lifetime. most of these kids will stick to where they were being brought up.

You're Right, we have a different life with Michael because he lives in a gambling environment so his son will imitate him out of interest in trying something of his father's work. So we are advised not to follow it and must educate children to focus on their future because if they are involved in gambling as a teenager it will damage their mindset and they will no longer focus on their education.

As a son or daughter then everything where your parents been doing would be definitely right into your eyes which you would really be idolize and would really be following on to their steps which is something

very common for us to take.Its true that whatever we've been dealing with would be basically be followed by our sons and daughters and since you are really that millionaire then finances wont really be a problem

which does basically means that they could really do all sorts of things without having any problems when it comes to finances which is really a very common concept or
situation that it would really happen.

That is really hard if a parent itself is used to live his life in luxury wherein gambling is also a big part of it. The children will definitely learn to imitate the lifestyle of their parents as it’s what they keep on seeing. Well for  Michael, it’s not a problem since they got the huge funds to lose in gambling, but for ordinary people who even struggled to live our life, I think we should always teach our kids to never engage in gambling as it could be very addicted if not controlled.

That's why the wise ones says the best time to bend a fish is when it is still afresh, but when it got dried, no remedy to bending it anymore, let's train our children right from their childhood days, when they grow up, they will not depart from it, which is parents to child's responsibility.


Some careless and heartless parents do forget that the children are looking on their character unknowingly and unconsciously, what kind of foundation are they laying for such children to trail upon, we are just blaming the society but the actual fact is that the fault begins right from home, if the child gambles or misbehave being underaged, don't blame him, check his parents.

It is easy to build the right morals and characters in kids while their are still growing than when they become a teenager, the boy in question is already used to that way of life, and he has being spending such a huge amount on regular basis, so to him, that is a normal life but not knowing he is building a bad image in the eye of the public. His dad is not also responsible enough to have developed the right character and set a good example for his kids.

Better lead by example.  If you are a pro gambler and you don't want your kids to get involve in gambling then it is better for you to stop gambling.  You cannot tell your kids that gambling is wrong yet they can see you wasting your time gambling.  This will lead to confusion and possibly lost of respect of children to their parents.  If parent told them to not engage in gambling, parent must not get involved in gambling activities. 

Though you can try another approach by not branding gambling as a taboo.  You can tell your kids that they can only engage in gambling activity if they are in the right age, but as a kid, they shouldn't get involved with gambling activity because it is against the law.  Together with that, you can guide your kids on how to properly moderate a gambling activity so that they will have a knowledge on how to engage in gambling properly when they come to age.

The role of parents is very important to accompany children's activities and should limit the use of PC or mobile, if without monitoring browsing history from the internet it will be influenced by external factors from the internet including advertising from gambling and they will try it, I have a younger brother and I always borrow his cell phone for check his internet activity history and when he is 18+ then he has his own choice to do whatever, but the role of parents only suggest the best for his future.

That is the need for guidance to children, regarding this there is a need for notification to children about the bad risks that will be obtained. Even worse, worse things can happen to them, such as addiction, mental health, and others. In the links below, you can find the lessons you need to know about these things.

https://www.psychreg.org/child-gambling-addiction/

As a parent, you should be able to handle child even with scolding. Not because you are doing something that you don't want your child to do means that can't say something about it and prohibit them from doing it. Also, it should not affect your conscience as you should know that prohibiting them is the right thing. Things could go wrong even what you say if you think that what you're doing is wrong.

You can still be someone your child to look up on or a "Hero" even with things that you don't want them to do. You just need to prove them and let them what the things they should idolised you.

You know, it's really hard to scold someone, a child when your at most guilty of the ae crime. It's not a very good position especially when your also on the same position. You kind of restle with your conscience and as a result, you don't often come off with the right words or make the most impact.

That's why it's important that your kids don't get to find you in such habits. You might as well be there Hero and like there hero, they would tend to walk the path you on and you know what the result would be, disaster.

Gambling is for the matured in mind and those whom knows when to continue or stop. It's not a thing for children and it should be kept from them, as far away as possible.

Kids may think they are smarter than their parents while in reality this is not the case. Parents are more experienced and no matter how sharp the kids are, they can never deceive their parents. However, when children do not listen to thier parents advice on not to play gambing, children usually do not listen them and start playing in hidden.


Poor communication is not the problem, the real issue is the children see and adopt what their parents do. If parents keep on playing gambling and keep telling kids not to play gamble, it will have no effect on the kids. They will argue that if our parents are playing, why are they stopping us and why can't we gamble too ?