Never gamble in front of your kids.

[Litzki1990]

Just to break the logic "seeing adults gambling = getting addicted" among kids. Why do you think that a kid, after seeing his parents gambling, will carry interest to gambling through his childhood and his interests wont change when he grows up or becomes adult? That seems to be a strange logic if you think that kids remember all that they saw during childhood. If you do it regularly, you live in a casino and push on teaching gambling, then yes, the kid will carry interest to gambling to his adulthood.

How do you say that the contract argument the OP makes about this is a strange argument.
A child directly follows his family during childhood. You naturally try to match two families where there is no turmoil in one family or there is no bad relationship between the members of that family resulting in no quarrel or any abuse in that family. But if you observe another family where trouble is constant and abuse is constant, from which family a child will grow up well.
Of course the child will have normal growth from that family where there is peace. If you abuse in front of your child, you will see that your child is also learning those abuses in front of you. If you don't abuse or if your child doesn't hear abuse, he will never express it through his mouth. Also if you gamble and regularly discuss gambling issues with your family members where your child is present then surely at some point of age he will talk about this gambling.

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[Bitcoinsummoner]

Prevention is highly recommended so that your child is not involved in gambling. However, digitalization has now penetrated the world of gambling.

Covering up the world of gambling also won't have a big impact, because out there children can get information about online gambling from their peers. If that's the case, giving advice and more on providing an understanding of how the world of gambling is, both the immediate benefits and the bad impacts of gambling is more necessary than just preventing gambling.

We have to be careful in preventing this because today's children don't like being forced to obey their parents' wishes. Let them understand what their parents want so that they can understand that their parents are trying to educate them well and so they can be better prepared for circumstances that have really changed.

However, we must try to instill awareness in our children not to get involved in gambling because some dangers can result in their lives being ruined. They can indeed get information about gambling from their friends, but most of them will only invite our children to gamble directly. If not accompanied by the correct information, they can get involved further in gambling without being able to quit gambling easily.

Every child should receive moral education. And the most important way to acquire moral education is religious education. If a child does not understand the difference between good and bad then that knowledge cannot bring any improvement in the life of that child. Most children do not know whether gambling is good or bad. If gambling is bad then the child needs to understand how terrible its effects can be. If you fail to explain the bad side of gambling to your child then the child will become addicted to gambling and destroy his life as well as the family.

Need to know moral education for stay safe for an example below.



"Don Juan" is a satirical epic by Lord Byron in English literature. Lord Byron himself is the hero of this epic.

The story in brief:

Don Juan's mother (Donna Inez) was a divorced woman. She used to visit her boyfriend to fulfill her own carnal desires. But she would take her teenage son Joan to her boyfriend's (Don Alfonso) house. When Juan's mother spent time alone with her boyfriend, Joan would leave Juan with her boyfriend's newlywed wife (Donna Julia). Juan becomes attracted to his boyfriend's newly married beautiful wife. Thus an immoral relationship was formed with Juan, the beautiful wife of Alfonso 23. And Juan becomes so close to the illicit relationship that she can't have it.

There was a lesson here. Juan's mother had her study on her own syllabus, never teaching moral education and the difference between right and wrong. She thought there was filth in religious education. There is a detailed discussion about the desires of the gods and goddesses. She thought that if she taught religion, his child would know all about these desires. So she did not want to give moral education or religious education to her children. But anyway she finds her son attracted to this immoral teaching. Thus he brought dire consequences in his life.

So I think it is every parent's responsibility and duty to teach all children moral education, religious education and understanding the difference between good and bad.

[Samlucky O]

Just to break the logic "seeing adults gambling = getting addicted" among kids. Why do you think that a kid, after seeing his parents gambling, will carry interest to gambling through his childhood and his interests wont change when he grows up or becomes adult? That seems to be a strange logic if you think that kids remember all that they saw during childhood. If you do it regularly, you live in a casino and push on teaching gambling, then yes, the kid will carry interest to gambling to his adulthood.

How do you say that the contract argument the OP makes about this is a strange argument.
A child directly follows his family during childhood. You naturally try to match two families where there is no turmoil in one family or there is no bad relationship between the members of that family resulting in no quarrel or any abuse in that family. But if you observe another family where trouble is constant and abuse is constant, from which family a child will grow up well.
Of course the child will have normal growth from that family where there is peace. If you abuse in front of your child, you will see that your child is also learning those abuses in front of you. If you don't abuse or if your child doesn't hear abuse, he will never express it through his mouth. Also if you gamble and regularly discuss gambling issues with your family members where your child is present then surely at some point of age he will talk about this gambling.

All what you have said is truth, but this aspect of not regular discussing about gambling issues with your family members where your child is present, for me I don't see much big difference in it. Though it is not good to speak gambling issues with your children or never allow them to be around you when you are talking about gambling, but the truth be told wether you tell them or not a child that will gamble will gamble, and the one that will not, will not try it. The reason of me saying this is that I have came across many homes where a chronic gambler don't have a gambling child or children. And also seen a situation where the father that is not a Gambler gave birth to gamblers. Most at times I feel that environment influences people and pair groups. As children grow up, they don't only learn from their parents but learn from outside the home. And most of what they learn outside becomes more dominant in their life than what they learn at home. And it now looks as if they learn what they knew at home not knowing most of them are from outside.

[Wakate]

Gambling in front of the kids is not a good idea, i wont advise for such, if you're going to gamble, then know it that it will be your own decision alone and influencing the children about it will make no any sense at all, moreover, children are not to start gambling at their tender age except they have been independent and no more called children, some of the things we do, they see, and instead of us to set a model for them to follow, they may only see the other asper in us which is a wring impression.

Since we know that children are always eager to learn very fast especially from what they see and from their parents. We need to try as much as possible even though we have a particular game we want to bet on that would be profitable, it is better we avoid doing that at the front of the kid so their mindset will not make them to keep asking what one is doing and how they can go about it. We need to be wise and avoid the pressure of gambling in front of kids because they would securely want to learn and do the same thing there parent is doing. It is very important we are wise and play the parent role very conscious so that we don't end up create scenes that would become an addict to the child.

[shivansps]

Hey gamblers' community, hope you're all doing great.
I wanted to convey my message here that gambling in front of our kids may put adverse effects on their growing minds and they may also take the wrong path and start gambling (either by asking you personally for funds or by stealing it in order to fulfill their gambling cravings).

I'm sharing this because I saw this issue with my kiddo who was once watching me gamble at a website playing blackjack and she started asking me more about the game. Then one day, she wanted to play it herself and asked me if she can go for it and I said "no, it's not your legal age to go for such games". So, it's better to keep our kiddos away from gambling and let them focus on their studies, else it'd actually ruin everything for the whole family if the kid takes the wrong path.

Our children often do not what we tell them or forbid or teach them, but precisely what we do ourselves. That is, when a child sees their parents smoking or drinking, they will probably do it themselves at a fairly young age. Regarding your situation, we can say that it is bad that you allowed your daughter to see that you are gambling. It depends on her age, if she is still small, less than 6-7 years old, then she will probably simply forget about this incident if she no longer sees you playing. If she's an adult, she'll probably remember this. In any case, you need to correctly explain to her that this is not worth doing and that you should never play in front of her again.

[Blitzboy]

Just to break the logic "seeing adults gambling = getting addicted" among kids. Why do you think that a kid, after seeing his parents gambling, will carry interest to gambling through his childhood and his interests wont change when he grows up or becomes adult? That seems to be a strange logic if you think that kids remember all that they saw during childhood. If you do it regularly, you live in a casino and push on teaching gambling, then yes, the kid will carry interest to gambling to his adulthood.

How do you say that the contract argument the OP makes about this is a strange argument.
A child directly follows his family during childhood. You naturally try to match two families where there is no turmoil in one family or there is no bad relationship between the members of that family resulting in no quarrel or any abuse in that family. But if you observe another family where trouble is constant and abuse is constant, from which family a child will grow up well.
Of course the child will have normal growth from that family where there is peace. If you abuse in front of your child, you will see that your child is also learning those abuses in front of you. If you don't abuse or if your child doesn't hear abuse, he will never express it through his mouth. Also if you gamble and regularly discuss gambling issues with your family members where your child is present then surely at some point of age he will talk about this gambling.

All what you have said is truth, but this aspect of not regular discussing about gambling issues with your family members where your child is present, for me I don't see much big difference in it. Though it is not good to speak gambling issues with your children or never allow them to be around you when you are talking about gambling, but the truth be told wether you tell them or not a child that will gamble will gamble, and the one that will not, will not try it. The reason of me saying this is that I have came across many homes where a chronic gambler don't have a gambling child or children. And also seen a situation where the father that is not a Gambler gave birth to gamblers. Most at times I feel that environment influences people and pair groups. As children grow up, they don't only learn from their parents but learn from outside the home. And most of what they learn outside becomes more dominant in their life than what they learn at home. And it now looks as if they learn what they knew at home not knowing most of them are from outside.

you make some good points, but there's a huge factor nobody's really hitting on here with parenting. Yeah, some kids from good homes gamble, some from gambling homes dont. But saying "a child that will gamble will gamble" = thats a loser's mentality. It ignores the best thing we have: the power to teach kids, to change the odds for them.

Listen, I know a thing or two about winning. Believe me, nobody believes in shaping minds more than I do. Parents, we underestimate ourselves. Our homes, the way we raise kids, it matters more than any of that outside noise about peer pressure. Its the truth. We have the biggest influence, the best tools – the question is, are we using them right?

[Z_MBFM]

Hey gamblers' community, hope you're all doing great.
I wanted to convey my message here that gambling in front of our kids may put adverse effects on their growing minds and they may also take the wrong path and start gambling (either by asking you personally for funds or by stealing it in order to fulfill their gambling cravings).

I'm sharing this because I saw this issue with my kiddo who was once watching me gamble at a website playing blackjack and she started asking me more about the game. Then one day, she wanted to play it herself and asked me if she can go for it and I said "no, it's not your legal age to go for such games". So, it's better to keep our kiddos away from gambling and let them focus on their studies, else it'd actually ruin everything for the whole family if the kid takes the wrong path.

Our children often do not what we tell them or forbid or teach them, but precisely what we do ourselves. That is, when a child sees their parents smoking or drinking, they will probably do it themselves at a fairly young age. Regarding your situation, we can say that it is bad that you allowed your daughter to see that you are gambling. It depends on her age, if she is still small, less than 6-7 years old, then she will probably simply forget about this incident if she no longer sees you playing. If she's an adult, she'll probably remember this. In any case, you need to correctly explain to her that this is not worth doing and that you should never play in front of her again.

When you try to teach a child something, it will take much less time for him to learn it than it will take him to follow the actions you do. When a parent drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes, the children will follow and consider them as normal and good things and try to do them too. And by inheritance that child will be addicted to these bad habits. so drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, gambling, watching adult content should be avoided in front of children.  Otherwise the children will get addicted to bad drugs which will have a very bad effect on their future career and health

[Accardo]

Funny how we didn't grow up seeing adults having sex openly, but there has been a high rate of sexual activities recently. The web introduces all forms of content that could arouse a person's interest to try out something. There exists lots of expensively made attractive ads online, to attract the interest of young people. Same way sexual contents are made available to increase young people's interest in sex. Which increased the high rate of sexual activities. With the high increase of gambling-related content online; streamers making up some crazy dramatic results. Young or growing people will develop a strong interest in gambling.

I think I have found about sex when I was in kindergarten. I did not know all the details and nuances, but knew some bad words and that man and woman must do something together. Kids told me that. They found about that from elder friends, brothers and sisters. I did not show off that knowledge, not in front of parents. But when older kids talk, I knew what they were talking about.

The same will be with gambling. Adults hide it from kids, but kids turns to be knowing what it is already from other kids. Believe me. And social media will only fasten time when they get familiar with gambling. I think there is no solution to that. You cant ban all the internet content and not let your kid be friend with other kids. Do what you want, but the information will leak anyway.

Fast enough, kids will quickly get acquainted with gambling information in the current internet lifestyle era. Nothing beats peer influence, in all contexts. I understand as kids we all know of some unfamiliar things; that no adult would believe a child is aware of, but things do change along the line. It's all attributed to peers sharing information. Growing kids can't change this fate, same as their parents. However such information can be knocked off when making decisions. Parents can train their kids to be good decision-makers. Knowing that society is filled with kids with lesser home training.

It's a matter of building the child's thoughts towards something more meaningful and also allowing him to hang out with kids on the same page of thoughts as him. However, internet usage can alter all these methods, because of the uncensored gambling ads published on every social media. The child unluckily can hit the follow button of a renowned gambling streamer, which can lead him astray to think of gambling and winning big. Kids also love money. Hence, it's all a risky thing around the globe that despite not gambling around them at home, kids will know of gambling.  As said in my previous response, doing it in their presence only worsens the whole problem. It's better not to do it in their presence. Let the rest be left for them to decide.

[Onyeeze]

Hey gamblers' community, hope you're all doing great.
I wanted to convey my message here that gambling in front of our kids may put adverse effects on their growing minds and they may also take the wrong path and start gambling (either by asking you personally for funds or by stealing it in order to fulfill their gambling cravings).

I'm sharing this because I saw this issue with my kiddo who was once watching me gamble at a website playing blackjack and she started asking me more about the game. Then one day, she wanted to play it herself and asked me if she can go for it and I said "no, it's not your legal age to go for such games". So, it's better to keep our kiddos away from gambling and let them focus on their studies, else it'd actually ruin everything for the whole family if the kid takes the wrong path.

Our children often do not what we tell them or forbid or teach them, but precisely what we do ourselves. That is, when a child sees their parents smoking or drinking, they will probably do it themselves at a fairly young age. Regarding your situation, we can say that it is bad that you allowed your daughter to see that you are gambling. It depends on her age, if she is still small, less than 6-7 years old, then she will probably simply forget about this incident if she no longer sees you playing. If she's an adult, she'll probably remember this. In any case, you need to correctly explain to her that this is not worth doing and that you should never play in front of her again.

When you try to teach a child something, it will take much less time for him to learn it than it will take him to follow the actions you do. When a parent drinks alcohol and smokes cigarettes, the children will follow and consider them as normal and good things and try to do them too. And by inheritance that child will be addicted to these bad habits. so drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, gambling, watching adult content should be avoided in front of children.  Otherwise the children will get addicted to bad drugs which will have a very bad effect on their future career and health

the thing is that when you take a child not to do something that you think that is wrong I think that you should not be doing those things you told me the present of the child so when you started doing those things your mentioned to them or you told them that is wrong in their presence they would think that you are lying to them that is why some people do emphasize that we should not Gamble in the front of our children or do anything wrong in front of our children because children do copy or take the step of the parents as good thing, that is why we don't bring up what we know that is bad or discussion what we think that is bad in the presence of children.

[topbitcoin]

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the thing is that when you take a child not to do something that you think that is wrong I think that you should not be doing those things you told me the present of the child so when you started doing those things your mentioned to them or you told them that is wrong in their presence they would think that you are lying to them that is why some people do emphasize that we should not Gamble in the front of our children or do anything wrong in front of our children because children do copy or take the step of the parents as good thing, that is why we don't bring up what we know that is bad or discussion what we think that is bad in the presence of children.

No matter how bad we are, when we are with our children, as much as possible, never behave badly in front of them, that doesn't mean we are fanatical or hypocritical or pretend to be good in front of our children. However, if we behave badly and show our stupidity in front of them, not only will they imitate this, but it will also be a reason for a child to become disobedient and not want to respect his parents. And it's true what you said, that apart from us having to behave well in front of them, we also shouldn't talk about the dark times we've experienced, because that could be a reason for a child to do the same thing as what his parents did. .

And of course we all know very well the risks posed by gambling, drinking or other negative things. even though we are gamblers or drunkards, no matter how drunk we are and no matter how addicted we are to gambling, as parents we always want the best for our children. No parents are perfect, with all the shortcomings we have, and all the stupid things we have done, we still try to give them the best, don't let them do bad things and stupid things like what we have done.

[Fredomago]

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the thing is that when you take a child not to do something that you think that is wrong I think that you should not be doing those things you told me the present of the child so when you started doing those things your mentioned to them or you told them that is wrong in their presence they would think that you are lying to them that is why some people do emphasize that we should not Gamble in the front of our children or do anything wrong in front of our children because children do copy or take the step of the parents as good thing, that is why we don't bring up what we know that is bad or discussion what we think that is bad in the presence of children.

No matter how bad we are, when we are with our children, as much as possible, never behave badly in front of them, that doesn't mean we are fanatical or hypocritical or pretend to be good in front of our children. However, if we behave badly and show our stupidity in front of them, not only will they imitate this, but it will also be a reason for a child to become disobedient and not want to respect his parents. And it's true what you said, that apart from us having to behave well in front of them, we also shouldn't talk about the dark times we've experienced, because that could be a reason for a child to do the same thing as what his parents did. .

And of course we all know very well the risks posed by gambling, drinking or other negative things. even though we are gamblers or drunkards, no matter how drunk we are and no matter how addicted we are to gambling, as parents we always want the best for our children. No parents are perfect, with all the shortcomings we have, and all the stupid things we have done, we still try to give them the best, don't let them do bad things and stupid things like what we have done.

Better to be hypocrit just to prevent influencing our kids to something that we don't want them to be involve, I like your point when you say that they can imitate us which is true, young minds always have that curiosity, each time they've witness something that they think that we are enjoying probably the interest inside their minds will play on them, thinking that it will be enjoyable if they also have that same chance to play or to follow the path, gambling is not something that we can easily explain so if you are not that type of a person who are good in explaining things, then it's best not to show any in front of your kids to avois any ideas.

[Obari]

Who is that gambler that would want his child to be like him,and carry that habbit of gambling from him.Everyone who is gambling today,never wanted to turn addicts to the stuff,so that father that would gamble infront of his child,knowing fully well how children copy bad things so fast is at thesame teaching his child how to gamble.
I don't expect any parent to fall victim of this,because every parent wants the best for his child and nothing less.
If the child leerns it from outside,either when among his friends,it's a different case,atleast you as the parents would be able to caustion him,but when he sees you gambling,and he imitates,I don't think you can even be able to caution him because he learnt it from you,and you would have yourself to be blamed.

[milewilda]

Who is that gambler that would want his child to be like him,and carry that habbit of gambling from him.Everyone who is gambling today,never wanted to turn addicts to the stuff,so that father that would gamble infront of his child,knowing fully well how children copy bad things so fast is at thesame teaching his child how to gamble.
I don't expect any parent to fall victim of this,because every parent wants the best for his child and nothing less.
If the child leerns it from outside,either when among his friends,it's a different case,atleast you as the parents would be able to caustion him,but when he sees you gambling,and he imitates,I don't think you can even be able to caution him because he learnt it from you,and you would have yourself to be blamed.

Each parent or guardian would really be not on the same type but majority would really be someone who doesnt really like for their kids to be ended up being a gambler on which we know that being a gambler
is most likely that you would really be ended up on losing money, the worst you would really be that become that addicted and we do know on what gambling addict lives that they do have.
This is why if you are a gambler then you dont like for your kids to be the same then better to take up that gambling sessions to be in hidden not unless if you are really that going into those physical casinos then it would really be something that would really be that obvious but if you are someone whose really that playing online then it would be better because there's no way that they could really be able to see on what you are doing.
Gamble for the sake of fun on which its important but we know that young minds wouldnt really be able to have those realization on the time that they would really be doing gambling on their first time.
Also its always been not recommended.

[Accardo]

the thing is that when you take a child not to do something that you think that is wrong I think that you should not be doing those things you told me the present of the child so when you started doing those things your mentioned to them or you told them that is wrong in their presence they would think that you are lying to them that is why some people do emphasize that we should not Gamble in the front of our children or do anything wrong in front of our children because children do copy or take the step of the parents as good thing, that is why we don't bring up what we know that is bad or discussion what we think that is bad in the presence of children.

No matter how bad we are, when we are with our children, as much as possible, never behave badly in front of them, that doesn't mean we are fanatical or hypocritical or pretend to be good in front of our children. However, if we behave badly and show our stupidity in front of them, not only will they imitate this, but it will also be a reason for a child to become disobedient and not want to respect his parents. And it's true what you said, that apart from us having to behave well in front of them, we also shouldn't talk about the dark times we've experienced, because that could be a reason for a child to do the same thing as what his parents did. .

And of course we all know very well the risks posed by gambling, drinking or other negative things. even though we are gamblers or drunkards, no matter how drunk we are and no matter how addicted we are to gambling, as parents we always want the best for our children. No parents are perfect, with all the shortcomings we have, and all the stupid things we have done, we still try to give them the best, don't let them do bad things and stupid things like what we have done.

Kids deserve some respect from their parents, to be able to return the respect in same energy. Whatever behavior a father or mother exhibits in their kid's presence will register quickly in the child's brain. And he'll hardly avoid practicing those things even when said to be wrong or bad. Seeing his parents do it, validates that it's a good thing for kids to do. Gambling is widely spreading around every existing society, yet parents shouldn't be the influencers who help in marketing gambling to kids. Gambling in the presence of kids will only create a society where young people will abuse gambling profusely. Hence, when gambling, kids should be sleeping or busy with school assignments.

Nothing should link a parent and his kid to gambling, except when the need arises. Maybe when the child is heard using some gambling terms, he can be questioned about his involvement in gambling. At least he'd say something reasonable to help detect if he's interested in gambling or not. Aside from that, parents who gamble are expected to reduce their involvement in the game. To help build a responsible family that produces kids that'll help influence kids to behave rightly. Upbringing kids in the gambling way, will only hasten the rate at which young people get influenced by peers to begin gambling.

[Y3shot]

I think this should not be taking for granted because children are very funny,  what they see while growing up that is what they will pick up and grow with more expecially the ones that can have serious effect in their life. When children grows to adapt gambling lifestyle from the people around them it is very difficult for them to be free from it. We must learn to make our gambling lifestyle to be a thing of private expecially when their kids around us .

[betswift]

Prevention is highly recommended so that your child is not involved in gambling. However, digitalization has now penetrated the world of gambling.

Covering up the world of gambling also won't have a big impact, because out there children can get information about online gambling from their peers. If that's the case, giving advice and more on providing an understanding of how the world of gambling is, both the immediate benefits and the bad impacts of gambling is more necessary than just preventing gambling.

We have to be careful in preventing this because today's children don't like being forced to obey their parents' wishes. Let them understand what their parents want so that they can understand that their parents are trying to educate them well and so they can be better prepared for circumstances that have really changed.

However, we must try to instill awareness in our children not to get involved in gambling because some dangers can result in their lives being ruined. They can indeed get information about gambling from their friends, but most of them will only invite our children to gamble directly. If not accompanied by the correct information, they can get involved further in gambling without being able to quit gambling easily.

Absolutely, both of you have touched on crucial points. Education truly is key. By openly discussing both the risks and realities of gambling with young people, we empower them to make informed decisions. It’s not about shielding them from the truth but rather equipping them with the knowledge to handle it responsibly if they ever encounter it.

Highlighting that gambling like many things in life, can be enjoyable when approached with moderation and self awareness helps clarify it and removes the taboo that often makes it more appealing. Just as we educate kids about the risks of speeding or smoking, teaching them about responsible gaming and the importance of self control is essential. This approach not only prepares them for the digital world where gambling is just a click away but also helps them develop critical thinking about various life choices.

[fikrett]

I think this should not be taking for granted because children are very funny,  what they see while growing up that is what they will pick up and grow with more expecially the ones that can have serious effect in their life. When children grows to adapt gambling lifestyle from the people around them it is very difficult for them to be free from it. We must learn to make our gambling lifestyle to be a thing of private expecially when their kids around us .

Im curious about how you were introduced to gambling. Were there any restrictions in place for you, or were you allowed to explore it freely? How did you manage to develop a responsible approach to gambling without becoming addicted? And do you think its possible to guide our children to become conscious gamblers like yourself?

I just don't quite understand how hiding something can help when its so easy to find out. Maybe our fear is actually a little exaggerated?

[Weawant]

Since we know that children are always eager to learn very fast especially from what they see and from their parents. We need to try as much as possible even though we have a particular game we want to bet on that would be profitable, it is better we avoid doing that at the front of the kid so their mindset will not make them to keep asking what one is doing and how they can go about it. We need to be wise and avoid the pressure of gambling in front of kids because they would securely want to learn and do the same thing there parent is doing. It is very important we are wise and play the parent role very conscious so that we don't end up create scenes that would become an addict to the child.

Sometimes even if we think they may not understand what we are doing we should know that children can be really curious a d may even go behind us to go and know what that thing we were doing is about and in some cases they may want to try it out and before you could realize it they are gradually getting into gambling without you necessarily knowing they are already into it probably until the day you may possibly know.

Don't ever give the children anything that suggest any form of gambling to them not because they may not get to know it later and probably get involved but then at least I'd they must then it should be at the required age and not at the age where it will become a problem to them so that they will require help to be able to get over it because that has been the case of few persons and they actually end up finding it difficult exiting or dropping the habit because they started too early than they should and are unable to apply proper restraint.

Personally i do discouraged and frown at any form of underage gambling because it does more harm than good to every of it's victim so it's not something that i would even advice anyone to risk so we all should as much as possible try not to allow our kids get into it too early enough not become a problem to them because they may actually not get to be as normal as they were before then.

[STT]

Teach children statistics and maths, you cannot make the decision for them every day of their adult life over what to spend their  money on.  That idea is ridiculous to consider within a family and to many equally unlikely to work across a nation with any attempt to ban the concept of gambling.   

People will gamble one way or another, some will choose to minimize their risks and others to maximize but the only real way to help people is to educate them on factors behind a game.  Make the whole process as transparent as can be and its then upto them to judge as well as they can.  Simple ban or censorship is not really saving people if anything they are more vulnerable for never considering the question before encountering the risk whenever they do discover gambling anyway.  Every person takes risks, some play games with risk and some choose not to but there isnt any world without risk clearly.

[entertheabyss]

I think this should not be taking for granted because children are very funny,  what they see while growing up that is what they will pick up and grow with more expecially the ones that can have serious effect in their life. When children grows to adapt gambling lifestyle from the people around them it is very difficult for them to be free from it. We must learn to make our gambling lifestyle to be a thing of private expecially when their kids around us .

Our kids, they're uprising and swiftly learn about every crucial information coming their way. The kids should know about gambling during their teen and also taught the advantage a d disadvantages of gambling. That will become a decision for them to either gamble or leave it and focused on another prominent activity that will keep the incoming rolling in. Kids of this current generation, they adapt every single detail and know the basis of the gambling system because they've access to them with their smart phones and gadgets.