Topic: What do you think about the school lessons of gambling addiction? - page 3. (Read 534 times)

Children usually look up to their parents, so I believe one simple way is to be a good example to them.
If they see that their parents are not in any way touching the gambling aspect, they may not think about it.
Also, parents will always have the responsibility to make sure their kids know the repercussions brought by gambling.
As they can learn them from their peers or via online, what they will be holding is the principles their parents instilled on them.

It depends if gambling is very rampant in that country, but if it's about accessibility to any gambling-related sites or tools it should be the parent's obligation to see to it that their children will not be addicted or the subject is properly explained to children, the parents can teach addiction to their children effectively, because they have a moral obligation to their children to teach them the harmful effects of gambling.

Gambling addiction is now going worse and worse, not only among adults but also among teenagers because of the very easy ways to play gambling by phone. Many teenagers are doing gambling because of some reasons, as you said, and moreover teenagers will certain condition in their home, their environment around, their friends, and also their also addicted to phones. In fact, they are under control however teenagers commonly will do only based on what they like and love to do, but still cannot control their own emotions and addictions.
Giving the education for gambling addiction is actually very important to all people. But, will this work? Depend on the personal intention whether they want or not. Additionally this may not run very well if applied in to the school, moreover gambling addiction is considered still as taboo, moreover some of them may not want to show themselves that they are on the gambling addiction. But here, thismay be tried several times and need certainattention also from families  and also all people around to support the teenagers to  talk to us about their codnition, this is ot easy of course.

 

Are you really sure that these psychologists were doing research or are simply making assumptions, because from what I've seen of addicted gamblers, even though they are children, they become people who are not social and are very shy because they spend hours or days without leaving home to play, as they cannot go to physical casinos, so they spend all day at online casinos, and of course, if a person is playing 24 hours a day, that person will not have time to talk to other people and as a consequence becomes a shy person.


 

As far as I know, disadvantaged children don't have money to play games, but rich children have a lot of money to play games, it is very rare to see poor children who are shy and stay indoors 24 hours a day, poor children because they cannot afford to have a computer, cell phone, they choose because they go to play in the street with their friends while rich children, because they have money, stay at home because they have a computer, cell and more things that involve technology.

on the drug issue, honestly I don't see how children who gamble get stressed and get involved in the drug world, it seems to me that this research is distorted


that wouldn't be a good thing, addiction is a disease and as a disease is treated in the hospital the school is there to teach things like history, math or other things. Gambling is an entertainment, not something that should be taught in school.

It is not just worth it, it is necessary. It was John Locke who said a child's mind is like a blank slate "Tabula Rasa". Teaching young kids about the inherent dangers of getting addicted to gambling, drugs, alcohol and other very risky before is like writing a clean code. Zero bugs. And one of the most effective and efficient ways to do this in my opinion is through formal education.

I do not think that gambling addiction should be taught separately from other forms of addiction. As a matter of fact, they should be taught together because you will most likely see someone who is addicted to gambling already fighting another form of addiction.  In the end, it doesn't mean that some of the kids won't deviate, what it means is that you would have to a great degree significantly cut down the number of those who will be in therapy in the future.

Those are on to those times when you do get matured but if we are still on a state that we arent minding about our future but minding about on the current things that do interest you.
Its true that this would be basing up on self will whether you arent really that interested on what gambling offers or you would be testing out for the sake of curiosity.
Each decisions in life will really be entirely depending on you and you arent that a fool on not to make out some picturization of things that might happen ahead
if you do get involved that much on a particular thing.

Now, it comes down to how resilient is the individual not to get involve in gambling.
If he has other life's ambitions and he is serious about those goals, he won't be a prey of this gambling habit.
It is like an individual who grew up in a really poor neighborhood, does he have a chance to get rich?
Of course yes, so it depends on the individual how he will attack his surroundings, is he going to bend and follow what he is seeing or change his path for the betterment of himself?

There are some organizations at my alma mater regarding youth addiction on a lot of things. IMO, it raises awareness, but at the end of the day it is still the environment of the youth which largely affects their decisions on a lot of things. Even if separate lessons are created for the sole purpose of educating the youth about the negative effects of gambling, if the student goes home to a house full of gambling activities, the possibility of that student catching up to the said activity is extremely high.

I am for raising awareness and all that stuff. It helps prevent some cases, but not all that's for sure.

School plays an important role in our education as professionals when we get the bachelor,master or Phd degrees.However the gambling addiction and every other addiction like alcohol,drugs is a 100% responsibility who fall on us,the parents to teach our kids the good and the bad and their differences.Every family has a diverse way of doing things or explaining them but in the end I believe all families do what is best for their kids and that is how it should continue to be.

I don't think it is necessary for the school to organize such lessons.For the most unfortunate ones,children abandoned from their families or who lost them early,for them there are religious institutions to teach them the good and bad (I never am pro the religious people because I believe they just sell us fairy tales that do not exist but in this case they do good).

This will surely exposed them into gambling, so I believe as well that it wont work and this might put them on a bigger risk once they knew the possible system of gambling. We don’t need a separate school lesson for this, we just need them to give information about addiction, and we need to strengthen the security of casinos so we won’t see any under age playing on the casinos. Children nowadays are too fragile, they easily become a victim so I think it’s better to focus in other things instead of gambling.

When curiosity does really come out on which most young people do have high level of this one which would end up on being testing out with those things that had been prohibited.It all matters with someone's

will whether they would really be engaging for the sake of testing out real experience or they would totally avoid it because there are people been saying about the dangers and risk of it.

Im not saying that this is something not really that effective but its better to make out prohibitions but not on the sense that they would be focusing too much on it
but rather sharing up information about it and then move on.

With the way the world is going right now, children these days pick up habits irrespective of the future dangers they pose. Also just by growing up under parents who care less or who are ignorant of how their own addiction influences their offspring.
 By infusing subjects with lessons that concern vices such as drug addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, with a great concept of analogy for their understanding; these vices which pose a great threat to the future of these children, will be relieved of the power it may have on them later on. One not only cuts cost but also maintains efficiency because any one of the vices if being addicted to might be detrimental to them in the long run.
Unless one is very particular about the subject matter of gambling addiction due to reasons or results of research conducted in a given area and have witnessed or better still wants to correct an error that has caused damage that resulted from a case or cases of gambling addiction, then the need to organise special lessons for gambling addiction is rather excessive.

When I was still in school, our school was often visited by activists who were addicted to young people (the impact is really felt) but it was really sad to see the activities (visiting schools) from the activists were no longer there. Education about gambling is very important for young people so they can avoid it when because in learning conditions, students who gamble will definitely experience a decline in achievement.

I would say the rather stealthy moves in the games industry towards micro transactions and lootboxes are probably the largest factor in introducing children into gambling like behaviors. It is definitely going to be more important to educate younger generations about these relatively new phenomenon and remember that the gaming industry is always trying to push new methods of squeezing small amounts of money out of all players. It's a bit silly, but teaching mathematics and how it really works in the physical world is still developing in curriculums around the world, like emphasizing that the many small transactions over a long term can add up to really sizable amounts and it can all be wiped out if a game developer decides to shut the support network down.

I think this subject is worth to be mentioned at schools, but including all addiction themes together (drugs, alcohool, gambling). However, what really matters in this case is the kind of education and example children are having at home. Schools don't teach character, family does.

Here in our country there are specific lessons taught at public schools by police officers to guide children against drugs usage. On the other hand, I observe when those children grow up, they enter the drugs' world anyway, as those lessons back then didn't mean anything for them. That is why I say education, example and guidance must come from home at first place. Schools just consolidate what children have already been taught at home.

Children quickly absorb the material taught to them, and if they are interested, they try it out for themselves. How many times have children been told about the dangers of marijuana or beer and how many times have they tested the stuff afterwards? The same might be true if you talk about the dangers of casinos, while showing bright attractive pictures of slots or gambling sites. As the saying goes - forbidden fruit is sweet.

it would be worth a try, considering gambling is nowadays not exclusive of real life casinos or resorts. Entertainment companies like Electronic Arts and Activision-Blizzard have successfully introduced to their games and services new mechanics which are essencially gambling, the rewards are usually high-valued cosmetic addons and skins. This only one example. In spite of this fact, this games are not marked as only for adults or mature enough people, this is how children unawarely get into de gambling world.

While the most important countries in the world decide to put an stop to these kind of practices, I'd say that teaching about this topic in schools could be a good first step for children and teens to become aware of dangers of gambling addiction.

Why not? I always believe that proper education is needed to address gambling addiction.  The awareness campaigns and ads that warn people about gambling addiction aren't that effective.  If it is then we should see a decline in the gambling problem but we didn't instead there are an alarming concern about how more and more people are hooked on gambling and developed gambling addiction.  If the government had enough budget to integrates gambling addiction knowledge in schools then I believe it will greatly help.

We have so many different topics at school that children often stay in for more than 8 hours a day. We tend to work for 6-8 hours without overtime and want our children to learn patiently for more than that? I sure don't. If I could I'd reduce the time at school to the most essential stuff and demand my children to be taught basic economics, engineering, mechanics, foreign languages, history, not religion, sex education and courses about gambling. That's just a waste of time.

Why not?? As long as the content of the lesson is suitable for the school kids, that should be fine! Education about such things are very much needed, even the alchohol and drug addiction can be added in the curriculum. Also live awareness workshop is a very effective way to teach kids about bad addictions.

Gambling addiction is indeed a psychological issue. But if the awareness is created at a young and tender age, that may become fruitful at later stages of life.