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Gambling with your parents might be the unusual bonding of the family but I was able to experience this one before.

In my place, you can gamble on the wake which is normal and a form of sympathy. I was young that time and my dad was playing on the other table called "Mahjong", my Mom was playing "Bingo", and I'm playing card game (Tong-its) that time and it looks like my whole family are playing and aiming to win some money

When I grew up, gambling becomes our source of happiness but suddenly becomes our worst enemy because honestly my parents got separated because of gambling and until now they blame the addiction of my dad. I'm old enough now to realize that was a biggest mistake of my family, to let that addiction ruin our family. I promise to myself not to be like my dad, I will not expose my kids into gambling.

Will you do the same mistakes of my family or you will keep your kids or even yourself away from gambling?

Actually gambling with parents is not bad idea as long as the main purpose is to have some fun together. The mistake that happened in your family is the addiction, actually you have the right to control your father if you know that he is doing more than what he should do. Sorry to hear about your story of your parents got separated because of the addiction although actually it should not happen as your family should have better ways to solve the problem instead of decided to break the relationship.
To be honest, my father was a gambler as well and I knew gambling from him but I do not want the same thing happen to my kids. They may learn by themselves but I wont show to them that I'm a gambler.

Gambling is surely not good to do within the family and as you mentioned it is the main reason of the divorce of your parents, further proofs it.
Every day I hear some bad experiences of gambling like losing money and now the families are broken because of the addiction of gambling.  :(

Gambling is illegal in my country. On top of that, in a country where Muslims is the majority, gambling isn't really a thing here. In fact, it is frowned upon by the community. So, no, never done gambling with family, or even (real life) friends in my life.

I've been occasionally gambling for years, from sports betting, dice, poker, you name it. But I'm fully aware that I'm doing it for fun. I never expect to gain any profit from gambling. So I don't think I need to keep myself away from gambling. Even if I had a child later in my life I wouldn't prohibit them from gambling. I will teach them what gambling is instead. Education instead of prohibition is the way to go. They need to have the same frame as I do to keep them from getting addicted to gambling. Sorry to hear about your family too.

My father is a gambler but he does no influence me doing so, I admire his discipline because I never saw he have some kind of gambling addiction.
Now I am also gambling but with sports betting, my father gamble with cock fighting but I'm not fan of it.

I would never consider doing something like that. I am a grown man and my parents are old fashioned. They believe in hard and honest work and have never seen the inside of a casino. I have always tried to keep gambling away from them. I like to bet on sports occasionally and out of respect for them I didn't even leave the betting slips in visible places because I know what they think about it.   

This is the tale of hundreds of families in the modern world. I gamble now and then primarily for fun since I know the risks involved with it and my family feels the same which is why we never had any sort of issues with it.

My dad even had a great time gambling at the Las Vegas casinos, but never got addicted because our family is great when it comes to self control in these cases.

Gambling runs the risk of serious addiction and promoting gambling to kids is just a very bad idea. There are so many great family table top games to choose from. Some people might argue that poker promotes critical thinking and math skills but I would disagree as it's as addictive as any other betting game.

It is a no go for me, my parents are strict, even though I am a married man now still they watch me most of the time. Picturing it out gambling would them gives me goosebumps. They are religious people and never had a chance to gamble even once in their life. When we were still kids we used to play cards at home and when we got caught by them they punish us with sticks.

Well I guess in your situation OP "The family that gambles together don't stay together".

Sorry if it was a bit insensitive but I don't think it could have ended any better. Sure I don't criticize gambling but bringing up your kids with it is like pasing down alcoholism, smoking and unhealthy diet - they start to see it as normal part of life rather than something to indulge only occasionally.

You've already seen what happened to your family, don't repeat it.

I don't call it a gamble but only a fun game for having a little bonding time with my parents. We bet for household chores and not with real money. This way we can enjoy the game without having to think about losing money since we are a family.

I never gamble with my family, and I don't think that they know that I am playing gambling so far. I never tell them if I am playing gambling, they only know that I used internet activity to work and make money.

So you have a bad experience to see your parents gamble in the younger ages and now you realize that it could give bad things to your kids. That means you are more careful than your parents before and you don't want to see your kids be the same as you. That is a great thing that you can realize the bad things that will happen if the kids saw their parents gamble.

I will keep my kids and myself to stay away from gambling. At least if I want to gamble, I gamble without anybody knows even my kids.

You are from the Philippines, right? So, I think there is no one here who wants to destroy their family because of gambling. I play tong it's with my mother, and she is the one who teaches me that kind of gambling game back when I was 8 or 9. Now I am 28 and I know that my mother thought me not the right game for my age. LOL. She just wanted to play even inside our house with me, so she teaches me even if I am still young, we got addicted but we manage to control that and stop that addiction, we just only play occasionally

Well, gambling with family is fun. It only depends from person to person if this will lead to a bad habit or if parents will not guide their kids properly. Even without a family of gamblers there are people who are addicted in gambling. Learn from your family's mistake, take note that gambling is not bad as it is intended as a source of entertainment.

Dont have nerves to gamble with parents, leave to gamble with parents i dont even have nerve to gamble infront of parents. In my society gambling is regarded as evil and those who preaches or make money with it as regarded as low.
Previously i had a bad habbit of gambling but now it seems to be little numb now as it has been 4 months since i have gambled a major money :)

If for my kids, maybe in future i wouldn't let them play gamble because risk that come from it is bigger. Grow from family that know gambling, my dad like to buy number and then never win. I think he only waste money on there.

That is just sad.

I mean gambling in this story or in your experience is a good thing at the start but in the end it is the one that destroyed your family. In my family, gambling is a bad thing since woth the experiences of my father, it really destroyed his brother's lifeand it was an example to us his children.

Gambling together with family isnt bad as long your father and mother do know the limitation because if you make these things to be your primary hobby then expect on what would be the outcome in the end
which is losing financial because no one would able to sustain with gambling for too long.You might say you have won a particular time but you will still end up on losing them since you are continuing to play.
Its good that you do realize and have opened your eyes on what gambling can possibly done on ones family.

I thought that is literally mean playing with parents in one table,but playing in same place is normal when you are a family of gamblers,good for me because my father never learn how to gamble while my mom knows some games but playing only in some social occasions,but me i am once a gambling addict but lucky that ive change
I know all the games you’ve mentioned since i use to play all of them aside from Mahjong in which i never come to learn
My kids are aware of what gambling bring their life and i am keep educating them that stay away from this and just find other fun activities

Too much of everything is is always bad, yes it OK to play gambling games with my kids but it will only end at the level of cashing fun and will.not let it get in the way of my personal responsibilities to my family. Extreme gambling habit is very bad.

No parents want their child involve on any gambling games because they know how it greatly affects their child most especially if a money is involved. Those you said  playing in a wake with your parents is just ok because traditionally, it is always done because they prolong people being awake with the help of gambling. But after that, as what your parents experience, it doesnt provide positive things in life.

everything is get success if you are doing it with the limitation otherwise if you do a lots of concentration only on single thing will always going to end with the bad result and I think it will same for everyone so we need to be careful what you are doing.

It is  somewhat contradictory for your post and signature to sit side by side lol.
It is a pity the gambling addiction  ruined your family. This should probably be blamed on addiction and the type of gambling and not mere gambling. Not every gambler is an addict

When both persons are gamling too often then chances of being separated in short time is high becauseboth will same mentality so it doesn't fit into alpha and beta.

And I don't think gambling with them is good idea so I never did that.

Gambling for me doesn't give any benefits or even in my relatives so I don't like my family or even my future family gamble or even do gambling as a hobby or a leisure time.

What happened to your family is a big mistake but I'm think we both from the same country.

pretty sure OP is a filipino.

i have an aunt that has gambling addiction, she use to go to casino and have even gone far to pampangga just so she can gamble there. her sons grew and have gone college so she eventually stopped going to casinos but she plays with me and all other niece right in their backyard til her sons learned all these card games. and i guess the sons been playing in casinos eventually.  not a really good idea to teach kids to gamble, they soon aim for easy money and end up going to casinos.

Those few obsessive gamblers give everyone a bad name.  Similarly some people can handle their drugs and alcohol but then you have those crazy addicts that make the activity look terrible.  Never bet more than your willing to lose, you should go in with the attitude that you may very well lose everything you are betting.

That's fascinating, and I mean that.  In the states, wakes are usually morbid affairs with lots of crying and no celebrating of life, which is what the living ought to be doing as well as mourning the deceased.  Might I inquire as to what country you are from?

Could be.  I assumed he's from somewhere in Asia, where gambling is much more acceptable than it is in the West.

I never gambled with any family member, but I don't see anything morally despicable about it as long as the family isn't addicted gamblers.  Were that the case, it could well be like a trailer trash family that smokes crack together and doesn't ever pay their bills.  Gambling can be fun and most people don't get hooked on it, just like most people do not get hooked on alcohol.  A lot do, but most do not.

When I was just under the legal drinking age, I ended up at a bar with my father where we were watching a band and we ended up drinking together.  At the time I felt very weird, almost guilty.  So I can understand why some posters are expressing similar thoughts about gambling with parents.  Looking back at my experience, however it was a bonding moment with my dad and nothing more.

Playing gambling if have wake is that traditional in the country where i reside, I get you what do want to deliver this your thoughts i remember also when i was child my family and I play at home card games is called pusoy dos but no money involve because they doing that for family bonding, the bet is if who gonna lose in the game have a dare. Not good to seen have money involve if the purpose of playing is for family bonding because possible get misunderstanding.

Never had a chance of doing such thing because my parents are very religious so they know not to gamble,but me and my elder brother use to play together its like we are a.tandem when it comes to gambling.from online game betting to sportsbetting and even in casino's, there is no much fun without us playing together. But when we got married things has changed and now we're playing together in online casino's but once in a blue moon because we are busy with our own family

Gambling is really not that bad, it's just that there are some people who get addicted to it then sometimes forget the meaning of what is gambling really all about. People gambling because of fun because gambling has to be played or sometimes just to bet only but you need to watch it because of the result but the main reason, we play because we want some entertainment and also to get the prize as well in the end of the game but we all know that we can't win at the 1st place. Playing with parents is actually fun. But it is slso depend of a parent on how they handle their son or daughter or if they think they are already at the right age for them to play gambling.

This is the first time I read about gambling with the family. It can be like "Family gambles together lose together. This is very rare in case because family figure is for good bonding only though not all just like this one.

Probably it is more like a conflict when betting together with the family for everyone has their choice and since everyone is so close it might lead to a fight. This is a very usual inside the house where siblings fight because of the differences among them.

This is why I do not think that it would be enjoyable to gamble together with the family.

That must be the attitude of every parents because gambling is really a not so good for the children's and i also believe that  what the kids see from their parents even if this is bad comes good for them so if you dont want your children to become a gambler then show them that you are not also a gambler.remember that we are the reflection of our childrens so be aware of those.. Maybe OP and his family are Gambling oriented people and its a common thing for them to play gambling from parent's to children's so we can't blame.them for doing such habits.i hope this will.never happen to.my family though i quite sure as my wife know nothing about gambling

I personally never did that even my parents are more likely hated my habit and if they know i gamble regularly they will advice me to stopped it but on my country there is one kind of game called traditional cards and we usually playing against people for 2 people or more and i was so often to see my friends were playing this game with their parents and i think this is fine as long our parents allowing us to play so nothing bad with that

I think there is a specification on this. Gambling with family will be best in bowling and there is this what they call “peria” in my place where different kinds of classic gambling like dice, tossing coins, darting and a lot more can be found every time festivals are approaching and not serious gambling like casinos and other card games which involve big amount of money and of course parents must play responsively and will be keeping an eye on the children’s direction too.

It's stupidity if you will allow same thing to happen with your family, knowing the possible outcome will allow you not to suffer with the same fate like yours, family and is very important to me, i will never exposed my kids with gambling even I'm doing it to find some enjoyment, but not with my kids never will happen.

If it's for fun only then this is not an unusual thing to experience at least you do experience the bonding of a family or even gambling with friends. It is unusual if a family would gamble seriously with their own blood continuously but if it is really for fun then it is a nice thing to happen.

I'm pretty sure it's Philippines, gamble on the wake is like traditional of Filipino even kids can play "lucky 9" or "unggoy-unggoyan", and if you play a gamble on wake you need to "tong" (I don't know what the English words for this) it's like if you keep winning you need to give little money to the relative of death.

This is funny though. How can you convince your kids that you are not a gambler by any means? Are you going to physical casino nowadays or just sticking to online casinos? It is easy to hide that you are a gambler via online casinos but going to actual casino, I bet it is hard to keep it as a secret.  :P

Gambling with parents is fun if you are doing that for entertainment purposes only but if the situation extends more than that, then, I would say the ending would be really bad and sad..

We use to play rummy card game with family lot of time but their is no money involved it is just a fun game, so till now their was no problem with it. so i think until you are playing for fun their wont be problem, when the money is involved in it the real problem starts it. In the starting it will be fun but when some one lost lot of money then automatically it will become serious. So their should not be any money involved when playing with family

It would never happen in my family!

The reason why gambling with my parents will never happen just because my parents already learned the lessons that gambling would ruin a person's life. Honestly, both of my parents were victims of gambling addiction causing them to experience being an extremely broke person.

My grandfather sold his house and assets because of the said addiction. My mother did not learn and also tried gambling in casinos. Ended up being a broke person. Now that they already learned their lessons, they taught us not to gamble so much and if you really want to gamble then a 10% of your savings each month is the maximum allowed cash to bet in gambling.

I play fantasy sports with my father who likes to gamble a lot more then me.
I could not imagine sitting at a poker match with him and watch him lose his money so fast.

Gambling will always involve money and as a son I will never bet with my parents. Moreover my parents aren't gamblers and I have never told them about my gambling activities. It would be impolite and it would seem strange here if a son gambled at one table with their parents.

I also experience this one before but not to the extent that my family got broke because of gambling. If i also have my family in the future i will never let them seat beside me, because I want them to be more responsible and gambling is just my past time so technically I will not expose my kids into this kind of environment.

If that's the reason, then its ok to have fun with your family but in my case its totally different because of money separated us.

Yes, I've learned a lot from my past experience and I will also not allow my kinds to do this. I'm better now since I was able to gamble not for money anymore buy to have fun with my friends and do some play online. My kids will never know gambling, not until they've reach the real age.

That is what I am thinking too because they are not a gambler and if they caught me for a gamble, I could not imagine what they will do to me and perhaps, I will be expelled from home.

But perhaps, in other places, it is normal to have a sit together with their parents and play the same games and use the money they have. I think it will be fun and exciting to play with them especially if we are competing with them and if we can be the winner, we can buy some food to eat together with them.

That doesn't mean it's bad for everyone of us, maybe that's how you see it but for other people it would be alright.
Maybe the culture differences would answer this, in my case my father is a gambler, and I also gamble, so we understand each other.

I will not even try to introduce gambling to any members of my family because I know where it could lead to, first they will find it exciting and then they will try it outside of your home, once they found out it's even more exciting, they will now bet with real money until they become addicted to it, gambling should not be part of your family, and do not encourage any member of your family to become gamblers.

Maybe you are right, there's cultures who permitted this kind of an act, gambling is not good as I already suffer way back and I feel OP's sentiment, losing money is stressful to the point that you'll forget all your obligations just to play the game, it's needed a lots of time and encouragement from different people before you can move away and stop this bad habits.

After suffering from this, I will be furious not to allow any members of my family to do the same mistake, learning from a lesson, it would leave the mark behind and be remember as part of my past life.

We used to host card games in our house when I was young. We invite friends and relatives during weekends to play poker and other card games in our house. It is usually long hours, from the afternoon until dawn the next day. It is just a way to get together and enjoy good company. I think if you have self-control, you will not get addicted to it. We turned out okay.

Neither of my parents are interested in gambling. We used to play card games when I was younger but those never involved any form of betting. I love playing poker so maybe those card games have planted a seed ;D.

I think it's considered a little bit weird to gamble with your parents in our culture (western Europe), at least when you're talking about traditional gambling like at casinos.
We do play card games with little amounts of money, which is pretty socially accepted, but I wouldn't really call that gambling.

The stakes are usually less than 1 euro and you don't really play it to win money.

I never did that in my life,because it will be awkard to gamble with our parents imagine what will happen if we lost huge money in bets. :o

Bringing friends to gambling can be a better idea they might stop us at the right time than parents.

Gambling with parents aren't look so good no matter what perspective you look it. Parents shouldn't tolerate nor influence their family members as it might cause financial problem (specially if you're just an average person). In the future, I wouldn't do the same mistakes if ever my parents did that so. Kids shouldn't learn to gamble.

Agree here. Sometimes when Manny Pacquiao has a fight, all eyes are on the event and before the day comes we would be betting inside the house on who will be the winner, sometimes money, sometimes promise of something or a treat to a restaurant for the whole family if we lose. We find it fun and I don’t see any harm in doing it.

In my family we used to gather around a table with my uncle and his wife and we play poker, we did not like gamble for money it was just for fun, like if he wins i got get him a beer and if i win i get 20$ nothing serious, maybe some people think that this makes you grow up and become a gambler, but those moments and those games that i played  were the best memories i have of my family and every time i gamble i remember those moments, and they did not make me addicted to it, but it guess everyone has a different opinion and different experiences.

Family become the main role for development of children growth.
If you growth with gambler family, you will be a gambler or unaccidentally be the gambler.
It's become great responsibility for yourself because the temptation is too high !

Hey I’ll be honest with you that indeed was an unusual way to bond with a family, however I don’t blame gambling or your parents for the separation if their love was strong they would not have separated. I have often seen that people like to pour the blame on gambling, without looking inside and finding their own faults. Also as for your question initially no I won’t let my kids gamble, but when they grow up I’ll respect their choices and trust that they’ll gamble responsibly.

i dont want to expose my family to gambling, even though i only gamble for fun there will be a risk i might become a compulsive gambler, and nobody wants to become one, not everybody also have the same level of self control like people who perceive gambling as an entertainment.

My parents were never big gamblers.  The most my dad ever bet was probably $100 or so.  We did play a lot of cards growing up but it was only for fun and nothing was ever on the line.

I think your gambling passion has a lot to do with how you were raised, your mind gets really accustomed to habits as a child.

Me and my family play tongits sometimes and Bingo when they want.  We are playing gambling togther we are betring small amount of money because when we are playing gambling we are relaxing only when we have a lot of freetime and also for our bonding.

The ending of your story is very sad, because of addiction, for a while you family play gambling for happiness then everything was good, but when gambling become a source of addiction then gambling destroy your life and also happiness. It is a lesson for us, play gambling only for fun and don't cross our line of addiction, otherwise the result of fun will be opposite.

We have a saying that the family that prays together stays together this is very much true, but you cannot apply it in gambling, you cannot preach responsibility among your children if you let your children gamble with you.
You are contributing to your child's bad character that could harm him in the future.

I used to place sports parlays with my brother and father when I was younger and we had a great time competing with each other if we are going to win or not. I remember I once won a 21 matches long parlay and won $200 with like a $.50 bet. I had a blast that day.  :D When it is for fun gambling can be very entertaining indeed!

Firstly, putting all the blames on your Dad for been addiction was the main reason all the family separated and with what I have experienced so far, the best to correction an addiction person not blaming the person but forgive him while you both work on how to control the buzz which leads to his addiction. However, it never a good decision for all the family to gamble at the same spot.

I don't gamble with my parents but I do play games with my dad when I was with him.  Some time playing games with your father do makes you guys to have some private discussions.  However gambling with them is not something I think are good because since loses and winning is involved it might lead to disaffection between you are your dad.

We are a total 4 in the family and completes a set to play card games. We don't do it everytime but once in a year on the festive season, we bet on cards games with our money. Though win or loss, the money ends up buying food stuffs to eat which would be consumed by all.

I believed the reason why your parent are never a big gamblers was because they understand the concept of gambling, they see gambling as a ways of buying themselves some fun during their free time and like you said gambling passion has alot to do with people addiction but it wont be a nice idea if you do the same thing with your family.

Teaching your kids with gambling since they are young is the worst thing a parent could do because when they grow up they will want to repeat the same thing but now the difference is they will play with real money which they have worked hard for. Of course no ones says gambling should be completely avoided from kids, as long as it is just playing a simple game once a month of so but teaching your kids to gamble everytime you play games with them is just a stupid thing to do.

That's good, and it is a way to spend some good time with family members. In my family we never used to play anything placing bets, I used to gamble and my mother knows it. When I was unlucky and loss big I used to say it to mom, she used to sclod a lot, and hearing it I'll quit for few days and once again used to go gamble.

I'd never be able to gamble with my parents either; they've always been against gambling and the investment I've been making into crypto, and every time I see them again they tell me to stop. Pretty sure this is because of negative experiences my father's had in the past with casinos, but I really don't know where this all stems from. I've personally never had an issue with gambling though, fine in my eyes as long as you're not putting in money you can't afford to lose.

My father loves cockfighting game and i have also my own gambling activities but we also see to it that addiction won't ruin our family. We just bet what we can afford to lose and when we lose our bets, we just go home and just enjoy bonding with the rest of the family. I think gambling is not that bad as long as we are not making it as our own priority but only as for fun and entertainment.

I think gambling with family is the most pleasant thing in life, not by profit that you want, even defeat is not a problem for us. the most important thing is togetherness and jokes that you all have do, or even gambling without money, can use other items too

This is too risky, you are teaching your children to take up a vice, and it's such a bad idea, we, parents, are teaching our children to only cultivate good deeds and stay away from all forms of vice, because it can harm him when he grows up, this vice can lead to another vice and your children will blame you for this, when he gets into trouble.

Right now, my mom always plays Mahjong, and she is taking it as a luxury time to spend time with our relatives. It's fun and just enjoying small things. I know that their bets are not that big, but it's still fun if you get to hit the jackpot and take everything. I did ask my parents to teach me how to play it but they didn't get to, especially when they are always busy. Instead of that, I just tried gambling with them in a land-based casino, and not betting a lot which is good. It's better to be controlled, not too much.

It is always fun when you gamble together and if parents do support you or for fun and entertainment they go with you it could be a real good idea as you would definitely be in your discipline and it would be meant that you enjoy the game as it is meant to be.

You are a free bird because most of the parents will not encourage us to gamble with them, even i tried many times to gamble with my parents but they asked me to go away when they are gambling. They will not invest huge amounts into gambling but still, they won't encourage me to gamble with them.

It wasn't wrong to do that. It was very familiar to me as we had the same country. It was a tradition in our country and we are just doing it for fun and to entertain the visitors who tend to symphatize with the bereaved family. Some may find it weird but this is historical convention that is still happening until now in our country.

Yes I gamble and play with my parents it is one of our family time.
We usually play cards when we gamble but sometimes we bet with other stuff like who would do the chores who would clean the house.

I feel the situation of the OP because my father was a gambler of playing cards too and that's they called "tong its". He usually gambles at the weekend together with me but I'm not going to play just only to observe him. Since start, I know that my dad having a limitation of money he gamble if he has loses that certain amount we walk away and come back into another day. I think parents know what they are doing and they don't let their child involve into addiction.

In my country, gambling is a normal thing, but for some people it is not good. For me, gambling is a fun thing. Because I started gambling since I was in school. And I never gambled with my parents. If anyone in my family is playing gambling, of course I will be angry. But if I gamble, of course I'm normal. Because gambling in my opinion can benefit. And that's really a fun thing.

I dont think gambling with parents is a good idea, it will set a bad example for the children especially if the children don't get the correct mindset, and if you want to have fun together its better to play game rather than gambling, and gambling among family member could make the relationship become tense when someone lose too much, so I think gambling is not a family activity

Agreed, that's why the end of their family relationship was very sad, because of gambling. I also don't like to play gambling with my children, because of many bad reasons. I think it is good if we play gambling with our friends only, instead play with dad or mom, that is not good.   

Playing gambling with friends does not differ with playing gambling with your family but playing a gambling is not a bad activity to do as long as you dont do inapropriate things such as drinking alcoholic drinks or smoking a cigerate while playing because this can influence other inoscent people   . its not also bad if your aim or goal of playing a gambling is only for fun because there is no point of placing a real cash as bets when your only playing to the one that you love or to the one that you know the most .

Well, I think no one parents make their children ruin lives because of letting them gamble or teaching them to become a gambler because in their eyes that is a bad habit especially when it comes financial support that they don't have. Indeed, that is not must be tolerated to let your children doing gambling. Parents are always concerned with the future of their children and it must be.

I would say it's on a case to case basis, you believe that gambling is bad so you are judging it already.
There are parents who are successful in gambling and I would understand if they will train their kids at a young age to be successful also.
Making money in gambling gives you no limit, your skills will make you rich in gambling.

I think the mistake there wasn't exposing the children to gambling since it doesn't seem that you shared your father's addiction. It can be a good family past time playing betting games. The problem would in the individual, in your case, your dad. Considering he has a family, he should've been a little more careful in immersing himself in gambling. Instances like this can be avoided and i think there are those who can be in full control when they're involving their families.

My parents hates gambling as far as I know and honestly, once they know that I’m into gambling for sure they will mad at me. Gambling with parents is not bad if you think positively and can’t really affect the family. We must put family first than money, and do gambling without sacrificing your family.

My mother is a Card game addict when i was young i remember that i need to go to her in a gambling place just to ask my allowance for school

Untill  when I graduated secondary school that she is allowing me to gamble with my friends and there comes a time that we are playing is same place and wayback?i felt so proud that we are playing together and when she become a Christian?everything change and she stop gambling .but me!?i still play sometimes ofcourse 😉

Yeah, I am also already a parent and I have 2 kids. I dont want them to get addicted in gambling although I know it was really entertaining, but if they are already in a right age of playing then why not? I will teach them how to limit everything not only in gambling.

Yeah, just like i said if it is for fun since serious gambling won't be with your family and relatives it would be with your friends who you shared the fun. Since gambling with your family is not that really an amazing thing to do if you are doing it for money. But in some countries, i think it is too common just like you said it was a tradition.

How come gamblers allow the parents to stay while they gamble. If you intercourse will take your parents with you. As like that while gambling also people will not take their parents with them.
Mostly investors may face the loss or they may win jackpot and have the plan. In these kind of times we cannot allow them to stay with us.

At least the parents need to educate your self first before introducing gamble to you. My parents say to me they not agree if doing a gamble with using money, but i still ignore him LoL, but i still try to control my emotion not using all of my money and know went to play & stop.

Well, before it gets to being extreme it first starts with trying once here and once there, losing and winning once here and once there until you realize it makes you feel so good and you don’t wanna stop already. And alas! You are another victim of gambling addiction.  :D

Maybe it is for educating; to some other people but gambling is not really for making money and it is merely for fun only. To some parents, i don't think they will allow their children to play gamble unless if they have a job already. And no family would let their children get addicted to gambling since they already know what could cause it in the long run unless if they were rich.

I dont want my kids to try or learn how to gamble, we all know the consequences of gambling and its not advisable to play when your kids are around they might think its alright to gamble since their parents are doing it.

Any form of physical gambling in our place are now prohibited by the authorities hence there's no way to gamble anymore unless you're willing to pay the fine for breaking the rules.

Thus I can only gamble online and making sure that my kids are not seeing me.

As much as possible I would not let them near any gambling habits. But since we live in an environment where gambling is pretty much accepted, it is kind of impossible to do. The best I can do is to train my children to practice restraint. I will train them to have control so that they will not be addicted to it.

As parents, we really don't want to see our kids getting involved in gambling. But if our environment tends to lean on to gambling whether as source of income or just to bond with families or just simply to have some fun then it's hard to control what our kids will do in the future. For me, don't let our kids learn how to gamble, sooner or later when they grow up, there's a big chance that it may lead to something that they are going to regret in the future, imho.

There are different kind of parenting and some would really have that kind of bonding which they dont care if their sibling would able to experience the negative effects of gambling in the future.

Even I wont really have that mindset to let my kids do see me when i gamble.I know the consequences and i dont like for my children to experience the negative things that it can possibly give to them.
There are lots of other hobbies or activities which is more enjoyable than gambling and i would rather choose that one over gambling.

i find it normal to gamble with family members for fun and sometimes doing it specially online. but if you take it like you sunk in debts because of you gambling habit, its not normal. its going to be different if you live somewhere abundant with job offers. if you live in a fishing village, it would be different since you'd be in the middle of the ocean by night and goes home by dawn and you'd be selling your fishes by day, you might not find time to gamble.

When comes to gambling we don't considered about the members that we are gambling right now if it was also family members we need money to get survey in this world and moreover If anyone had the money in his hand he will be the person to take the the advantage in his life so if anyone was gambling they don't consider about the parents and the family members and I think if they will accept that you can do it other ways you need to be guided by them.

Gambling is a game of losing and making profits or winning and it is very clear we understand that gambling with our parents in an offline ways is not what I  do really support but if it is an online one I don't think you will have much problems as we don't really know who we are gambling with and everything is anonymous.

If I have a habit of gambling, the first thing I would do is to hide it from my parents. I don't think its a good idea to gamble with parents. On the first hand typical parents in my country will not allow their children to gamble. No matter how old are they. In my opinion, playing games with parents is fine but gambling is not a good idea.

Gambling with the parents is always fun filled once you have been with your limit it will always been fun but in somethings money please everyone it will definitely effect with the family also so you need to be careful in anything if it was family in gambling also.

That's very unfortunate for you to experience such fate mate. For me there is nothing wrong in gambling with your parents as long as you have some limit or you just there for fun. Being a good gambler take a lot of discipline and that characteristic if absent on you then you are doomed to fail in life. Life in it self is a gamble in my view as we have to make decisions that can make or break our future. For me, if you gamble and you have discipline and you know what you are doing then you are good.

My parents are rather strict and traditional so there's no way I could gamble with them.

I'm sorry to hear that your parents separated because of it. They were probably taking it too far in the other direction. My parents would never touch it with a stick but this way they are missing all the fun. Your parents got too involved and probably lost some money and got angry at each other. Everything is good if you know when to stop.

I guess you are from the Philippines since you mentioned tong-its. In our country, its not new to see family members play or gamble like cards or a dice game where you roll 2 dice and cover with a cup, then guess what number came out, its called beto beto. Money at stake is not high since its just for fun.

Some people have the tradition of gambling, I can believe that but at a wake seems pretty incredible.   Never heard of that before but card games are very social, I totally understand that aspect.   When money is involved then it gets more serious and some people are so bad with money, it shouldn't be taken too seriously or turn negative.    Gambling is just entertainment like anything.

Sounds alot like drinking alcohol, a little is best.   Too much is time to stop which when its part of your culture is much harder so you got my sympathy on that one.    I always recommend competitive sports as an alternative and the winner buys the drinks or something reverse, they have that honour

I play Pusoy dos and Mahjong with my gradnfather.

That game will never gets old and honestly, my grandfather are still playing this one but of course there's no kids anymore. Gambling with your parents is normal in some places and I have no doubt if the local gambling in my place is just like this. I've seen many younger player on every places and it looks like their parents are not care at all, well if i become a parents too I will never let my child to play gambling I will make sure to guide them well.

Playing games with parents is a good thing like cards , ludoking etc.Gambling with your parents is not a good thing and I doubt there are any parents that like to teach their kids gambling.I don't know any family and have never seen one that gamble with their kids and teach them gambling.

This type of gambling   can be very interesting, because everyone would be battling to win since no one likes to do house chores.  But I would rather try gambling with my friends than family because at the end some siblings will not stick to their own side of the deal and that can be discouraging.

It reminds me of my old friend who always gambled with his family, he told me it is always fun until someone looses. According to him, gambling with family should not be considered gambling, it can cause misunderstanding. I have never tried gambling with my family, and I hope to do that someday so that I can know how it feels.

gambling is a gambling no matter who you are playing with . gambling with your own family is not thrilling at all but its fun because you wont mind loosing or winning  .  gambling with family is not bad as long as adults are alll playing and if there is under age or kids , please dont gamble if they are around because this gives them a bad influence   . as an adult we must teach them good things because young kids tends to follow what adults are doing .

I used to gamble with parents when I was a kid. Blackjack, poker, chess, checkers. But most of the time I lose to my father. Now I understand he cheated all the time  ;D

I don't think you have left everything that related to gambling, just a few example you still have a signature that related to gambling which mean you never gone from it. It's hard thing to do to leave everything about gambling once you are a gambler before whilst you have a close way to play it again. I'm not a gambler before I used this signature but when I start to use this signature I always have a curious to play it until I have played it once a week.

Indeed, it seems tabo for me because in my culture that will never happen. Because gambling is a place that should be avoided by everyone, if there is someone who play gambling then something bad will come to him. I appreciate with the desire of you who want to keep gambling must stay away from your child. But it won't happen if you still a habit to play gambling.

I remember when I was younger I played the national lottery with my parents, each Saturday evening we watch the machine picking the winning numbers together on television. I think this was a normal way of gambling 20 to 30 years ago.
Now I almost never play lottery but bets on sports and casinos each day, but my parents still play the lottery.

You should tell your parents how fun sports gambling is compared to lottery.
Actually you can get the a good odds that would pay a huge winning with a small money at risk through parlay, and that's more entertaining as you can watch them.

Sometimes bad habits should not be passed to other members of the family. Now, I don't say gambling is bad but you should control or refrain yourself from being addicted to it or else you will end up like your parents. If I'm correct, your parents were addicted to gambling which is why they broke because they can't control their emotions specially when they are at lossing streak.

it's illegal
even though one of your family members is a gambler, but don't play together on one table. because that will destroy your own self-esteem.

My family is not taught to do gambling cause its outside the customary limits that apply, my parents not gambling but I do it just for fun and fill my free time. Addiction to gambling is dangerous cause it you does't work and continues to make money from the casino if it wins but if lose it will make emotions even higher then the destruction that will occur.

Things will be considered illegal if there are laws that were broken. Maybe you are talking here of morality\integrity where in a whole family is gambling in a single table and a chance that non members of the family would be cheated on the game.

Yes.Its the integrity of the family itself.I admit i was really a gambler but honestly,i don't want my family to do the same way too.Gambling is such a risky thing and if you cannot control yourself from always gambling,then it will definitely ruin your whole life.So as much as possible,they should stay away from gambling.

Every person has their culture and norms depending on how they were raised by their parents. In my honest opinion, I would not subject my children to any form of gambling but if they were to ask me on how, it is better if I play with them rather than them learning it from other people. Just like what my father told me, it is better to learn drinking from him rather than to other people.


That's hilarious! It can be also a form of bonding between a parent and a child but you must avoid succumbing to addiction.

I don't know what I should do with your family story, but basically I care about your story and I appreciate your wise choice not to be an addict like your daddy and that is the right choice. Gambling is not a problem as long as you can control everything properly, if because gambling causes destruction in the family, gambling is not good for you. No one wants to make a mistake like that just because of gambling and as much as possible I personally will not let my kids become gambling addicts.

Parents were always aren't consistent to teach their child to get involved in gambling, they are always worried about your good future. I think for OP situation, his parents know that he can control his self and know how to manage gambling addiction. Gambling is not a big problem here if you know how to control your self and manage with it even if every day you are going to go to your father as a gambler.

The lottery as gambling is only good for one thing, very tiny amount of time taken to place the bet and the also the massive possible rewards.    For everything else its the worst kind of gambling, no real proper participation, no skill or gameplay to it, the odds are very often awful and so bad its similar to voluntary tax.    
For very busy people who want to tuck a lottery ticket into their car dashboard to cheer them up in a traffic jam, 'maybe i'll win' then sure.   For family gambling I would recommend something simple and more social like Bingo type events, mostly its sitting around talking and maybe drinking eating and thats far more suited to family.   The odds are far better then the giant lotto and I always liked the ticking off numbers part personally, for small kids its even educational :D

I did not understand if say the country has legally allowed the gambling and if some family members plays together and some win or lose so how it will impact your self esteem. It is the luck based and if you win you are lucky else you can rise on other's luck if your other family member is winning at least

That’s not true mate. Parents who truly have an understanding of gambling do not see it that way, rather they know that gambling is just for  entertainment and the money or whatever that is committed is always something that everyone in the family can afford to lose.

I started gambling at an early age with my parents and I learnt earlier that gambling is for fun and it has really helped me in the gambling journey. This is the reason I am very confident that I can never have the history of addition.

You will never know if you don't try asking or influencing them, if they love to gamble and they love sports, they will fall in love with the game.

Lol.. So your dad exposed you to gambling at an early age. I am very sure that you must be a big time gambler now.My father was a great gambler but he never allowed me or my other siblings to gamble with him while were still very young because according to him we were still too young to learn the rules and understand how to control ourselves. But, now that I am no longer that little one and I have come of age, I gamble a lot of times with my dad and the other of my siblings and I must confess that it can be super interesting with lots of gist while playing.

Every parent wants the best for their kids. Your parents understand the addictive side of gambling and that is probably the reason they do not want you to get exposed to such game. I don’t gamble, and I can’t imagine raising a child that does, let alone playing with kids. There are better games to play that do not have to do with gambling.

Gambling would be completely be declared illegal if I had my way because I have seen the harm it has caused to many people I know.

In my own personal experience, playing gambling with my parents or other family members is really makes me comfortable because i don't get nervous when i am playing with them and to lose all of my money, even i get greedy in betting it won't bother me because all of my losses will still be benefited to me and family. I also have experienced playing gambling with my parents in bitcoin casino (https://vegascasino.io/casino/video-slots/wild-pixies?utm_source=ccwp) in games like baccarat, poker, and blackjack because those gambling games are the favorites of my family, that is why i enjoy more playing gambling when i play with my parents or other family members. Lastly, it strengthen the bonds of my family when we always play with each other because it gives us good entertainment and a good bonding.

Bingo and Mahjong was exactly the game the OP said he and his family played then when he was still young but I don't support of act of family gambling together at the same spot cause it lead to something just like the OP story. However, I disagree with you concern what you said about lottery and just because it require no skills doesn't make it an awful game.

What self esteem? don't get that point either, playing along with your family members with a luck based gambling will still rely with how lucky you are winning your bets, maybe what he meant is you will be losing focus when you are playing against your relatives, not sure though my own sense I guess, bit there's no relevance if you both agree to play together, your bets, your game.

It is not that everyone lives in the same house hold and have same parents but even in different type of parents and different type of children it really doesn't make sense that much. If you gamble against your parents like a good old family fun (people play monopoly and risk and what not with their parents after all) it doesn't earn anyone any money, its the same money just changing hands at the household and that makes no sense at all.

If you play with them on a casino you can't really win neither, if you win a lot of money they will be happy but also wonder how you learned all that and if you lose than well you lost money. I feel like even friends are included in this because the only way you can actually gamble and feel that thrill is against strangers you do not know.

It is a mistake when your family joins your flag and selects it as a job. Everyone participates in gambling to relieve stress from a tiring day, they seek pleasure, and your family seeks money in every game. Remember that help your child stay away from gambling because this is not good for your child.

gambling can indeed have a very bad effect on users, especially if one family hobbies in gambling, of course, they only focus on the game because they expect money to be obtained from gambling. This of course can break harmony in a family, besides losing communication with one another, of course harmony will be hard to come by. as much as possible I will avoid not giving direction to gambling to my child later because if you hear the story you mentioned gambling can certainly destroy harmony in the family

You really have to try because it can be so interesting.  Like you mentioned some siblings not sticking by their side of the deal, I would say that it is not always true. That’s exactly what makes it an interesting game, with everyone trying hard to win. 

I enjoy to play with my family, playing games with my siblings has a way of bonding us together and it is usually a time everyone can express their feelings in my house. Gambling with family members is interesting but it’s better to be played among matured minds, underage should be exempted.

  Yes, those memorable days,,,, but now it is not an old era here we have so many other ways to gamble and to produce profit, it depends on our strategy how we deal with it, I never gambled with my parents but surely whenever I get to some site for gambling I make sure my parents are aware of it and they also give me ideas related to gambling even when they are not trained gamblers.

Its just really a matter of parenting yet we do really have different kind of parents.Some might be so open where they dont strict out too much ans some dont let you touch or make your learn about gambling.

Good for you that your parents arent not too strict and you are aware and do have respect on letting your parents know on what you are doing.

Although parents differs, my parent will never wanted to hear or see me close to a gambling center because they always preach against the spirit involved in gambling. I believe that many other parent will do likewise but not 70% will do. My gambling life is secrete and will keep it secret until they found out themselves. Gambling with ones parent to me doesn't make any sense and the gambler won't enjoy it.

I know some parents were strict when it comes into gambling as they don't like that their family members belong to the group of gamblers. Even though if they allow us but it is not our comfort to play with them, better to play with our friend. It is quite an offset to me.  

Just like you did, I play games secretly and I don't want my parents know or even I told them at this time. And it could be hard to play with them

The level of maturity applied to a game matters a lot;probably they didn’t apply some level of maturity through self-control. I notice that men are usually more addicted to gambling than women and since the wife knows about this, she would have been the one to balanced things and not make gambling an everyday habit.

I can understand how difficult it can be to pay attention to your partner when gambling gets deep into the soul, that is why we have to always learn to control ourselves, the foundation of the family was even founded on a wrong one because no responsible matured parents will allow their children to get exposed to gambling at an early stages.

So it’s obvious from your comment and from others as well that no parent wants to get their kids involved in gambling at any cost. Well, definitely we know gambling can’t be source of entertainment or even no source for bonding of family members. How even a parent can see his kid losing money and getting depressed? We all know the ultimate end result of gambling, ruined life and I believe no parent ever like it.

I am also having same mindset. I will never allow my kids involving into hard core gambling as it may spoil their future somehow. Few legendary people already shared here like, life will be better if not getting aware of gambling rather than getting familiar with gambling and then trying to stay away from it.

it doesn't matter even though gambling has become more sophisticated with the development of technology, the essence of gambling has not changed, gambling is indeed always to have fun and gamble with partners or your family will be the most fun thing, whatever the game is.

I would prefer to gamble with my parents or some friends so you can look at each other.
The problem with some gamblers is when they loss control and they do it alone, they will loss more and no one can stop them.
With your parents, you will get some advise because they are more matured than you.

Actually, I used to play those games (Bingo and Tong-its, as well as Poker), too with my relatives especially my cousins. I think I was still in grade school that time when they taught me how to play such. But we don't gamble, we just play. I call it 'playing' rather than 'gambling' because for me, a thing only becomes gambling when there is money and betting involved.

Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with playing those with your relatives or your parents even. But there should be self-control, discipline so that you would know your limits; you'll know when to stop. And it's a good thing that you don't want to expose your future children with such. Just give them other valuable and knowledgable items to play with.

Playing gambling with friends and cousin is ok but idea of gambling with parents is not easy digest. Yes, we can gamble with them in a friendly environment but if it involves money, it can create some mis- understanding between the children and the parents. Although parents do give money to their children and even children help and give money to their parents, but giving money on the basis of gambling seems a  bit awkward to me. It think the respect level is compromised if we gamble with parent but then it depends upon ones thinking

Good parenting will always do that, they will not allow their kids to do things that they knew will only have bad effects with them when they grow up, gambling will not bring anything good but else it will possible to get addictions, so I believe loving parents will not allow this to happen.

The capacity of parents to watched over their children is limited and half of their activiyis behind their eyes,you are lucky of having parents that guides you to goodness so never spare the trust has given you.why not just follow them as thats for your own betterment since gambling will only ruin your life in future if you did control yourself

Gambling should always be for fun so that you do not have to worry much things about it. Only thing if you are playing with your family you would be in control as they would be their even if you go overboard to stop you and make you realize about it

If your parents have disallowed gambling then you should not play it even with family / Friends or with strangers.



Controlling yourself in gambling is not an easy thing to do and when you have so many online / offline people to play gambling, why would to still be willing to play it with your parents. It may not look nice that you gamble with your own parents for Money related benefits.

There is everything wrong in gambling with parents. I feel no responsible parents would expose their kids to gambling. There are so many interesting games family members can play together but it shouldn’t be gambling, once gambling is attached to a game, and then it becomes unsuitable for a family to play together, because that name gambling alone already has a bad reputation. I would have a bad mindset about my parents if they ever encourage me on gambling, let alone try to gamble with me.

Seriously you gambled with your parents? I am not going to be comfortable with it because we are supposed to get fun on casinos but it is not going to be possible with most of their parents. ;D

Maybe my son or daughter will gamble with me hopefully without any issues.

Gambling with everyone in the family helps people get together. But I think you should bet with a small amount and have fun, don't be foolish to try to win big bets, because it creates negative things in the chances. Try to engage with your family by gambling, don't overdo it.

Gambling among the family will get the family together but the family needed to understand very the risk involving, rules and regulations of the game and it not every form of gambling that is advisable for the family to play together or else their will be misconception between the family.

Gambling among the family will definitely bring them together since they have something in common but the consequences involve is so high and it not good for family to do something like that together in other to avoid the situation of what the OP said it happened between his parents.

Saying yes or no to this question doesn't matter since we can still make the same mistake in the future. If me and my parents could have a good time by gambling and can afford to lose then why not. I've gambled with my parents a couple of times before and it was with a scratching card since they're cheap we bought a couple and on the last card we won enough money to break even.

Yes it is true it is fun and you could consider it as a family time only with a twist .
It is pretty normal to us and I also play cards with my cousin of course it wouldn't be house chores but who ever lose would drink 1 glass of water .
This remind me of the good old days staying late at night hanging out with my cousins having fun 😊.

There are advantages and disadvantages of playing gambling with your kids, you can introduce gambling to them and can play with them, provided that you can educate your children the harm of playing with too much money and giving it to much time, one of the disadvantages is when your kids become compulsive gambling, because they have found excitement on it.

But mostly disadvantages are here in this matter, actually we always afraid to our parents and that's why we don't do bad things, because we don't want to hurt our parents and if our parents courage it to play gambling, then the day will not far when our kids become addicted. So it is my personal opinion, but i know every society has different way of living, may be in some societies have good impact to play gambling with parents.   

I think it is fun gambling with your parents as long as you know the effects of gambling and you know how to be responsible and to limit your self.

It doesn't matter where you learn to gamble, either you learned it by yourself, thru your family or friends. What matters is, how will you handle your greed and addiction in gambling.

Yes its fun but not all the times especially if your family lose money in gambling and there's no left for them to buy you foods, and this happen to my family many times before. It's not easy to be raised by a poor gambler but of course its not an excuse for me to do better on my field. I'm still playing with a lot of control, that's the best gambling player for me.

I cannot imagine if I gamble with my parents lol.

I am sure that they will get angry with me if we play gambling together because my father doesn't like to see their kids playing gambling games. Usually, I gamble in my room without anyone knows, and if my parents get into my room, I will close the gambling site right away before they see me playing gambling ;D

Gambling with friends and parents is not an experience you might like to have. I tried it and I bet you it wasn’t fun at all. In my place we honor our parents so dearly that even when they are wrong we can’t tell, so even when they cheat in the game you can’t talk about it.

You don’t need your friends and family to help you control yourself in playing games, you need to work on yourself and have discipline. So, what happens when friends and family are not available/ does it mean you will not gamble? I have tried gambling with both friends, family and total strangers and the best of them all is playing with unknown faces.

I am sure Gambling with your parents are not good and if you lose it will make you addiction and addiction is very big problem in our life it will give angriness and stress and many things like that.

This has been the case with me as well. I was not allowed by my mother to play cards out of fear of addiction and I was unable to understand the concept of probability in my college because it required that knowledge. So I think parents should introduce kids to every thing that could possibly help them in future make money. Gambling is not bad unless you are addicted.

Same they are allowing me to gamble with them once in awhile during wake in our place. I dont bet much because its my parents money that i am using in betting. And i just do side bet with them because i am not allowed to have one players sit.

 Good for you if your parents allow you to gamble and the best thing is that provide you money for it, so you should share your profit with them, my parents never interfere in my gambling but they also suggest me to be careful while gambling because they are more experienced than me so I share my ideas with them before I join any project or gamble for gambling.

I like gambling but I can be called a person who rarely gambles.  The time is precious for me to make money but gambling is not the right place to make money, just position gambling as entertainment because it is more fun than being used as the main income especially for family finances.

For those of us who already understand that gambling is not good, as much as possible we don't introduce children to gambling, let them know for themselves when they are growing up.

That's what we are usually late for knowing, when they get a losing streak, then that's when we will think wiser not to make gambling a main income. But those who feel they want to try their luck in gambling for an expected outcome, maybe that can happen at any time. Some of the children who grow up will definitely have their own mindset and they will judge gambling itself from the good and bad sides, but when parents teach or introduce gambling to their children, then that is not true.

I think this is very common to almost all gamblers who have families because once they got addicted to gambling that's when they started to forsake their families. Maybe your dad didn't mean anything bad but to help in keeping the lifestyle that you have without realizing that he got to addicted too much and forgot the family. Well, we can't turn back time I guess what matter most now is for you not to make the same mistake again and don't let gambling have control over you incase you wanted to go back gambling.

I didn't think that far to bet with my parents, because my parents didn't know that I like to play gambling because I respect them because they know gambling isn't good and if it's addicted it will be dangerous.
so as much as possible I keep it a secret so my parents don't know that I like to play gambling.

it's ok to play gambling with your parents for entertainment purposes only, but not to the point where anyone of you will become addicted to gambling, the head of the family should be the one to set up the boundary, where it will stop as an entertainment, gambling is still a vice and we should all watch if any members of our family get addicted here.

Besides introducing about gambling to their kids, maybe parents need to tell their kids that gambling can suck their money until it's run out. But I think it's not better to introduce gambling to the kids before they are growing up so they can think about the risk of playing gambling. I am sure that they can think about the positive and negative of gambling and they will choose to not playing gambling as often.

This is such a sad story to hear and I would like to tell you that everything happens for a reason. Gambling with your family is not bad at all it’s actually a nice thing to do or a great past time but the wrong thing is your reason. It should be because you guys want to just chill and have fun or maybe earn a little money but not to be greedy. Your father is doing something wrong and it affects your family if maybe someone is there to tell him or stop him on whatever he’s doing then maybe it can be saved and on your opinion on not letting your kids gamble it’s your decision but on my part I will if they wanted to but I will be there to guide and regulate them.

Well, games like mahjong or poker or any card games are addictive. The feeling of wanting to have more or the urge of winning is there. In my family, we only do betting games mostly on NBA play offs or in the NBA Finals. Predicting who will win in the next finals in NBA. It is just a family bonding thing and to even boost the excitement while watching it together.

That's kind of family bonding, so it's just for fun but if it's serious game, I don't think it's good. If you were the parents, would you like your kids to learn gambling, especially that you know how addictive gambling is and they would turn them like you are. Gambling with family depends if it was just for fun, past time, etc, then I guess, it's not that bad.

It wont really be that bad if all things related to gambling would be remotely controlled but we do still know the risk of potential addiction.So,if you are a
sensible type of parent then you would most likely think up on this way where you would definitely avoid your children to engage with gambling even on simpliest
means since the possibility of problems ahead would really be there.

Do you know the meaning of respect?what stupidity that you are saying here?if you truly respect your parents you must not secretly gamble since you already that they don’t like that and they are prohibiting you from doing such,
So better think of respecting them by following their warnings or just keep your bad doing and turn them back

I'm afraid I could defeat my parents.
 
We know some of our parents aren't in gambling before or maybe hated gambling, so if we know already how they treated any gambling activities, it is good to be not with them when we gamble. This is the reason why I never play with them, better preferred to play against my friends or office mates.

It is truly impossible to gamble with my parents sitting next to me. Earlier I've been into gambling and at times I used to behave harsh with my parents without doing any work to them after losing on sports betting. Later they came to warn on this and further to that I stopped spending on gambling knowing it to them.

Personally, i wouldn't want to gamble with my parents becasue we aren't good when it come to play time. Since i was introduced into the world of gambling, my parents aren't aware of my involvement, so, gambling with them will cause me more injuries than i thought. Even, my parent never encourage gambling, as it's against our religion and custom. 

in my hometown there is a unique habit where families play gambling every New Year's Eve gathering. playing with family or our parents consider it normal. even though actually gambling in my country is illegal. but because it has become a culture for every family it seems like the state is giving dispensation that night. gambling against family or parents in that night is just to have a fun, win or lose is not a problem. because we play for happiness.

I think it's worse to keep your children away from gambling, because sooner or later they will discover it by themselves and if they weren't taught how to deal with this activity, it can be much more dangerous.
Look how many young people discovered gambling recently and are having issues with addiction as they weren't guided properly by a tutor before.
As you had issues with your father addiction and know gambling risks, you won't be a bad example for your children, so you can teach them how to play in a smart way, for entertainment purposes and only during special events.

Gambling will not do any good especially when treating it as a serious activities, it will add more pressures when you are sitting in front of your parents and playing against them, if you have such good custom you will never encounter this and suffer with huge involvement as your parents will not tolerate your act, good to follow what they've done not to encourage gambling inside your family.

Haha ... that would be far better than playing gambling openly with parents, how sick the parents are when parents forbid it but still do it.
I am not an active gambling player and I only describe and appreciate what parents do not know will be much better than open and painful.

Do you know what I mean respectfully?

Different people will have different attitude so we can't simply say they will not support us for gambling activities but most of them won't.But millionaire parents might have complete different behaviour they will support their kids on whatever things they were doing.So its is in our hand to deice gambling with them or just take any other occasions to spend time with them.

Gambling with parents will not really bring any good because aside from the pressures you will gain from gambling,there are also high chances that you will get all lose in gambling at the end of the day.It' enough already to see one member of the family as a gambler but having involved the rest of the family team is never a good idea.

 It also depends with other parenting styles, not all parents hated gambling because there's another type that they treated gambling as family bonding. One example to that is the card games, which they only used small amount of money used to bet. Nothing serious that matters, but only for fun games with small money involved. Sometimes it became that hated with other parents when their son or daughter became addicted to money betting which could demand money from them to maximum need.

On the other hand, you get to gamble with more responsible people and having your parents with in this kind of hobby may avoid getting you too hooked. It's not as if all of you will have the same outlook towards gambling. One or both may stand up to say that's enough and that's a good way to control your gambling ways. Your parents will always look to what's better for you because that's what most parents do so for me, i think it's not a bad idea after all.

I misread the title, I though it was gambling "against" your parents. That would have been very funny.

I see other kids also being exposed in gambling. Many parents are allowing their kids watch them gamble and eventually learn the games. I don't know if that turned out good, maybe it's a case to case basis.

There's no wrong to gamble with family that's alright, there are some cases like OP because they make serious on playing. I'd love to have fun with my family, but I think this is really an expensive way of having fun just try to encourage your family to have fun on other things so you can save your family and don't be like the family of OP.

Gambling for fun isn't a bad thing, but show to the kids how to gamble to make money, then there is a problem, at least gambling with money should be for people bigger than 18 or 21, and that's why casinos doest't allow kids.

If you are going to look at, it's more of a tradition. We also have similar family bonding or traditions similar to that during Christmas or New Year's eve. Just a simply bingo game wherein everyone is involved and it's all of fun during that holiday season.

But to totally play in like online or traditional casino, I don't know, I still have my feelings that it shouldn't be done with your parents.

I think it is more fun to gamble with family as well at times because with friend you get carried away considering they are winning and you losing still you think you too can win and keep on playing. But when you are with family you would be at little reserved stage knowing you can't keep on losing money and need to wind up .

Online or playing at the real life casino the feeling will be same while we play with our parents,they are going to irritate you for spending their money or your money.But on special moments like on Christmas eve or any wedding bonds then it will be totally different because our parents are not alone they might have their close friends which will change their attitude compared to you and them alone.

Everyone has their own views about this topic, but if we think deeply then may be it is not right to play gambling with parents. Actually the end of gambling is not good, but it is our sense, if we deal with gambling like a fun and play it with our family for only fun wise, then it is good.
But on the other hand, if our parents courage us to play gambling, then the way is not far when we become addicted and our hands will be empty.

yeah i also gamble with my mother and with my relatives too but just at home. I never experienced gambling with them in a casino and i don’t think it’s appropriate to gamble with my parents in such place. Although i did gamble in a casino with my cousins and siblings already.

Gambling on your house and on anywhere else is the same but gambling is not bad  . Gambling becomes bad if it will lead to other bad activities like stealing or robbery just because you want more cash ( easy cash ) to stay on the game   . I think almost all of us do already gamble with thier friends and family because its fun and we can learn from them or we can teach them .

I also have experience playing gambling games with my parents, actually there are the one's who taught me to play gambling games, since i started to become 18 years old because i am now legal to those things, that is why we play gambling together. The gambling games that i learned and played with my parents are poker, pusoy, blackjack and tongits. I think it is normal for us to play gambling games with each other because it is really entertaining. Honestly, i also have played in a gambling sites or bitcoin casino with my parents because it is also a good way to entertained ourselves that we are experiencing good winnings and a lot of excitement. It is really great to see that we are all having fun with our parents because it shows that we are really united and agree to each other like a true family.

Nice family bond, I have experienced to gamble with my relatives but AFAIR I haven't gamble together with my parents, both of them.

With that kind of gambling, it's not really serious because it's just a way for you to enjoy everyone's company.

That is a really fucked up situation, you parents were completely irresponsible and if the source of happiness is gambling then you are in a world of trouble and since you have gone through a horrible experience i am not sure how to cope up with that situation, when you start loosing serious cash then the blaming game starts and it is a really fucked up situation. The solution is not about exposing to kids, you have to advice and keep a tab on their activities online since everything is accessible easily.

It is very common in families playing games some times in a week or daily in healthy families but most of them are not gambling but playing just for fun and enjoyment. Some family members get frustrated during a game when one loses or wins or any effective loss occurs in frustration even if they are gambling so frustration may exist in both cases. But most of the families enjoy their games together.

Holy Crap, you don't have any idea about our region. Oyr parents would never consider it as a legal way of earning. They think it as sin and curse both. Hahaha, in their opinion, gambling is all the root of being destruction. And yeah, that's the reality.

Filipinos gamble when there's a wake to remain the people on the place or keeps them for being awake for the longnight. Also, it helps on getting (tongs) or the percentage the winner put on pot for the family's financial needs. We all filipinos know that its normal to have a child playing cards on another table because their parents wants them to keep on their sides even while playing. Hope there would be less marraige broken because of gambling.

At a certain point in their life every child will probably gamble with their parents but they see that as a way of having fun and enjoying those moments. I'm talking about a simple gamble here for example the child says do you wanna bet with me that I am going to win this game. That kind of gambling is alright as long as it doesn't turn into something obsessive and it's not being played on real money.

When I was still teenager I used to gamble with my cousins and sometimes my aunt(father-side) but never been do gamble with my parents. It is really fun since I are with them to enjoy it. Yeah we usually do "Pusoy dos" thats how we called it in our country, "lucky 9" and "Bingo". When I am thinking now those days I wish it could be back because Life was so simple and fun like there was no problem just enjoying the moment. I like that bonding  :)

It should not be encouraged by parents, your children might think that it's ok to gamble and they will grow up with that kind of thinking, parents should set an example and gambling has no place in the family they deserve the best care why not a game instead not an online games but like basketball, so you can nurture discipline to your children.

This is the reason they say one should keep a very clear boundary between their domestic and financial activities. If gambling had been the only way of making money for the family, of course the uncertain nature of gambling and the frequent losses would result in chaos in the family and ultimately to separation. However, you guys need to move on.

I think playing gambling with your family would be fun but in my case, my parents are more used to a traditonal way of gambling. However, for now, I am playing with my brother and it is kinda fun too. I am teaching my parents what online gambling would be like and they starting to like it because it is very convenient besides, the online casino had a lot of variety of games to play in like in Vegas. They also startled of what this bitcoin casino has which is bonuses and amazing features. Playing with your family is the best so try it out and have fun with them.

I haven't try playing with my parents but I think its a good idea, i'm looking forward to it especially now that I have found the best bitcoin casino for me. Well actually I don't know if they are pretty interested about gambling since as far as I know they just think that its just a waste of money and time which is complete opposite of the way I think. If ever it will be difficult for me and I can't force them to gamble if they don't like. I do love playing a gaming game like slots and poker and i'm lucky because I was able to find a trusted gambling site and aside from that they offer plenty of gaming games that's why I never get bored whenever I play since I can try other games. They are also generous on giving free bonuses like free spins and its a great opportunity for us. Well you are definitely right its a great idea to spend time with them, I hope that they can play along with mt.

I agree. It is like a family bonding of having fun on playing gambling games that add up to a more fun and exciting chit-chats with them to make bonding last longer and be confident and convenient that you are playing with the people you do know so losing will no longer be a big deal for you. I do agree to you that it will not be nervous playing with your parents for the reason that even if you loss on playing, still the money goes through your family and will still benefit all of you in the end. Currently, I have also introduced my parents into the same crypto casino you were up into which is Vegas casino and so far, my parents are enjoying their experience same with mine on playing the variety of games it have like poker, black jack and many more plus the great deals of bonuses for doing deposits in terms of Bitcoin into it that is why me, with my parents do enjoy playing gambling games together.

Not, if you have a cool parents. :P

Why is it some people already judge and view gambling as a bad activity that may lead to life's destruction, and it's a sin? Don't think so, it's fun and therefore we can enjoy it, it's only a sin if you go beyond your limits, you got addicted and you do illegal things just to fund your addiction.

My simple question to you is whether you have given up gambling yourself because if you have not, your kids will follow your footsteps whether you teach him or not. The first thing you are to do is to stop it.

Exactly, they are afraid of the negative impact gambling will have in their children's life if they Indulge    in such act. Gambling has ruin so many lives even close friends of my father associate, so, he's very skeptical about gambling and will not allow anyone of us to gamble. Although, am a gambler but have "#selfcontrol" 

Children can also be influenced out as they grow and deviate from the way they have been taught. It is the grace of God that will make kids to conform. I'm sure most families won't want their kids to grow with gambling.

Definitely they are good parent but children's need some fun or entertainment which can be gotten from gambling too. Gambling makes children increase in their intelligence and recommended for children at school. Not that i gamble too much but i do gamble occasionally.

People this days not have self disciplined and thus due to which the addiction rate is high in gambling and as a result they lose the money lot and have the better to gamble with parents so that they would be under control to an extent .

Its fun to see your family enjoying the games especially when they are earning but it depends on every family situation because if your family ask you to gamble and focus on money then its bad, you are being forced to work and not to have fun at all.

Actually other gamblers are not being born but being made. It will start of course if one member of the family is a gambler. I have seen many young individuals being influenced with their parents doing gambling as it was being practice by influencing one older member in a family and usually it is the father who always gamble.

I agree that gambling should not be encouraged by parents for it might end up in sheer addiction which might later on destroy lives and all those people who have been making big money in gambling were not supported by their parents to gamble. It is something that turns up with the passage of time and you feel you could be of more economic benefits in one part of the market than at other.

So this only proves that you are a family of gambler?and if given a chance and budget you will all go to Casino together?lol I can’t imagine a family lives in this way of life does this really need to be part of family occasions?

Never in my mind that this will happen to me and my family,because of instead playing gambling we would choose some sports activities to much enjoy and not lose money for nothing

That’s the reality mate,look at OP I believe since childhood he has already adopted the gambling habits of his parents so as he grows old he become a gambler and playing with them at same time lol

From the social perspective, it is a way to be pretty attached to your parents for gambling give economic lessons and a father would really want his young son to have these economic lessons by gambling with him. It is like Chess, you learn real life lessons by playing Chess. You have to know that in order to gain long run future benefits, you can sacrifice a thing of value today.

definitely that wouldn't be a nice idea for those who aren't allow by their parent to gamble with. Had some of my friends who gamble with their parents and their parents have some strict control over them. Parental control matter in gambling and is a good one for such children.

Gambling is really just another form of entertainment like video games or the movies.  As long as your not losing your rent money I don't see an issue with family bonding over gambling.  That is basically what board games like monopoly are except you are using fake money instead of real money.

I'm with this concept also. Monopoly is fun to play with among your family members. So if one day, the family decides to play in a real casino just for fun, I don't see anything wrong with that. But if it goes beyond, like everyone is not going home because no one is winning. I think, that's a different story already. You will go home broke and no food on the table.

There are many other ways to get mingled with your parents and enjoy their company. You could play baseball with them if you are in the US and cricket with them if you are in UK. Gambling does have some economic lessons and is a more mental work rather than physical work like the other games and could be a pretty nice combat between parents and children over tea. I have been playing Dice with my father.

Gambling is not a good way of bonding a family, you know better than me.
Parents should inform the kids from early ages that gambling may harm their lives and that they should not be obsessed with it. It doesn't only cause an economic problem but a social one as well.

Lol,  your post is abit funny. How does gambling increase intelligence in children? The skill-based ones probably do this.
I think Children should not be allowed to gamble at all.  It is even illegal in many countries for kids to gamble.

It is funny to consider gambling as entertainment and fun for children, children should not be introduced to gambling because it will damage their morale when they are adults because they are used to spending money to bet. Lol! Entertainment and fun for children are just ordinary games without involving betting.

Introducing your children to gambling maybe one of the greatest mistakes any body can make and it might lead to them become addicted to it in future. My colleague son is finding it very difficult to avoid gaming and he is just 6! Gambling with your son or children is not good and you are not helping them in that way.

This is true but you cant stop those kind of parents yet we know that we do have our own mentality when it comes to parenting and our actions
as a parent would always reflect on how responsible we are on raising our kids on a good path and gambling isnt really a good thing for them to
engage on which tendency on having a messed life would lie ahead.

If our parents are gamblers will probably inherent into the next generation. Of course, they want to have their successor in the future and follow their steps.
As responsible for parents to teach the right thing for their kids and to know the best thing to them, it gonna be not right to teach our kids in gambling nor expose them into this field cause it only dragging them into a losing business when this place doesn't fit for their capabilities.

All parents will think about that, wouldn't ever think if their children will be gambler. But maybe if they know that their son already grow, they can't control it. Especially with parents who are gambler, maybe play for fun with his son will be good for them.

Basically, it is about personal perception. I guess everyone may have a different view of it. For me, I don't think it is a good idea. To involve family to play gambling will be likely to bring negative impacts even if it can rise joyfulness. I can't imagine if all family members become addicted to gambling. Who will give advice and guide back in the right way? Just play gambling our selves, but never think to involve family. That's my point.

There are lot of other activites from which fun and entertainment can be achived, so why chose gambling for children which will have real bad effect on them ?
Who told you that gambling increases the intelligence ? Gambling does increase laziness of getting / winning the money without doing any hard word and i will not recomment it for the school going childrens.

More than the fun and the money it is the respect which is compromised if the children play gambling against their parents. Gambling involves a lot of emotions and on losing one can be rude too. I think it is better if we play gambling with friends or strangers but not with our parents.

That's Filipino even our parents we can bonding to thw gambling like playing bingo.  In my country when the family bored they playing gambling which is the Bingo and all the players will be relatives and the bet only is a little and for those person who win they will trear the family that's the bonding of the Filipino citizens. Sometimes my family go to the Casino and we play as bonding too.

I feel there is nothing bad about doing so. After all they are your parents and the win or loss does not make sense for if you win or loose, the money stays in the family. It creates a sought of economic understanding among them for kids at time do not know much a lot about life happenings and one such games, elders tend to be pretty friendly and share good old stories.

Really?thats how you bond?with money at stake?i guess that’s unethical to play with bet to think that it’s your family who’s involved?
I will never do such thing mate,I would rather play with other people than my family members ,but I respect your prerogative since it’s a culture maybe?
But don’t play serious just let the elders win because they need more than ours

I heard that in some countries in Asian, you could play gambling with your parents. If I am not mistaken, some people like to play mahjong because it could be played for every people, including to play with our parents. But I don't know how to play that game because it's a Chinese card. But in another country in Asian, playing gambling with parents can feel embarrassed because not all parents will allow their kids to play gambling with them.

I am not aware of this culture as some of the cultures are really weird to the outside world, unless someone from Philippines vouch that it is their culture, it is difficult to go by the words you say, it might be your family culture but you cannot say that is a culture followed by the entire citizen, just imagine the entire country is gambling and the book makers see it as a hunting ground if that is the case, but i have not heard anything like that till now to collaborate your words. ;D

I don't think everybody in Philippine are into gambling and I have friends from there that are into trade and scientist and he has never discourse this with me before.

It depends on how the parent allow their children to play with them, but as long as there's a restriction from them I think their son or daughters would not be confident to do it together with them. Well there's some practices of other people that their parents allowed them, because they're lack of proper guidance specially those with broken families and it could rarely going to happen.

I think it's because some parents don't want to see their kids become addicting in gambling, so they don't allow them to play together in one table. But in the other house, parents and kids sit down in one table, playing gambling together, enjoy the moment. Sometimes that will give more valuable time to that family because they can enjoy their time together.

Gambling with parents is not a bad thing to enjoy and learn. It teaches both parents and kids how to behave when it comes to mathematics and funds in between. In many cases, there is a lack of confidence in kids and cannot deal with many scenarios because they have   not been exposed to the sought of experience in their early childhood especially when it comes to learning about probabilities. Learning in the field becomes too easy when kids have these experiences.

I think gambling is for family that you can having fun, but put it right, and you were together during free time. But practice self control when you gamble with your family, and teach them well and you also give advice to all not to become addicted in gambling.

That’s right since mahjong is a Chinese game that has been played in most of the countries worldwide,same as card games in which each country has their own gambling game

But playing with family member is really annoying for me,because why need to gamble with our love ones or closest one when we can’t it with other people

The right way to have exciting games with you parents then choose a specific day or time in which you play games happily. The statement also has second face, gamblers when addicted to gambling and parents are restricting not to play so much you become addicted to it. This is the time when you play with your parents and continue to gambling without letting them know even after their harsh words.

Gambling with my parents.its just a simple gambling just to have fun.a small amount of money together with your family have fun.
Both parents with siblings playing a cards with bet of money.a
this experience is memorable and make your family tight and gives happiness to each other that you wont forget.

Even in my opinion the loss you get it won't make you regret to play gamble with your family, I often gamble like poker, playstation, or soccer betting with my family and even though I lose it doesn't matter, because of the happiness I get it more important, if you want to have fun in gambling, then you can play gambling with your family

Even though only played cards for fun, I never play it with my parents. Playing cards already has a bad image because such games have been associated with gambling. While gambling is something that I do but I don't want my parents to know it.

Loss ? Gambling with your family should not include real cash but you should rather add some twist or use other medium that are not related to cash because they are your parents and there is no point of owning their money . and i see that you include playstation on your list ?  Playstation is a video game not a gambling lol  but it can be use for playing with your parents if gambling is restricted or unavailable .