Never gamble in front of your kids.

[TopTort777]

Any engagement with gambling and related activities must be hidden if you want to be a role model to them. I know that there's a kind of secretive here but you as a parent, you don't show your kids how you gamble, how emotional you are when doing it because they imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with.

Kids see you go to work every day, that you always have money, how happy you are when you buy yourself, a new car for example, but I see no kid today that will rush to start working as soon as possible So that "imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with" might not even happen. But, if you hide everything gambling related (that they will find out anyway), you limit them with new knowledge. Being smart and having extra knowledge was never bad.

[Akbarkoe]

Any engagement with gambling and related activities must be hidden if you want to be a role model to them. I know that there's a kind of secretive here but you as a parent, you don't show your kids how you gamble, how emotional you are when doing it because they imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with.

Kids see you go to work every day, that you always have money, how happy you are when you buy yourself, a new car for example, but I see no kid today that will rush to start working as soon as possible So that "imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with" might not even happen. But, if you hide everything gambling related (that they will find out anyway), you limit them with new knowledge. Being smart and having extra knowledge was never bad.

I think it's unwise to think that children won't want to work sooner and imitate their fathers working and also earning money to finance the household, I think they just lack jobs, basically these days unemployment is increasing because jobs are narrowing. IMO

New knowledge related to gambling in my opinion should not be prioritized, where the child has not been able to get a more mature psychology will be very dangerous and again not working it will make it difficult in the future, where will ask his father for money to play gambling because he knows his father is also a gambler, it will make a hassle in my opinion, it is better to hide it as best as possible even though he will eventually find out too.

[TopTort777]

Well its unwise to think that kids always do everything their parents do. I just dont understand who has created such a stereotype, that if kids see adults gamble, they definitely will want to try it, and after try, they become addicted. That is not just absurd, that is stupid to think like that. For example we hide or kids dont see plenty of things we do, yet somehow they are familiar with them.

That is why I am here vote for not hiding fact of gambling on purpose. Act as we act usually. If they see us gambling, nothing is bad from it. If they get curious, give them explanation. If they have a wish to gamble, explain that they might do it at proper age only, as well as explain all the consequences and responsibilities. That is how I understand things should work in life.

[mamesso]

And we get all that addictions, spending things on bs like game skins and etc not because kids see us doing something and their wish to try and copy that raises, but because we spend little time giving them explanations and teaching things. You can show almost everything to kids at certain age, and if you give a good explanation, provide facts, and if the kid isnt an idiot, he wont become addicted to things.

It is lame to accuse something or someone if your kid gets into trouble. If someone kid manages to become addicted to gambling, that is not because gambling itself is bad and addictive, or kid saw adults gamble, that is because parents failed at giving explanation of gambling and addiction.

This is where the role of parents is really needed so that children can judge for themselves what is caused by gambling. Explaining to them and providing an understanding of what gambling can lead to will make them judge for themselves what gambling really is like.
Parental supervision is very much needed so that children do not choose the wrong path in life. Children at a certain age always think that what they do is just for fun without thinking about the negative things that happen afterwards. The role of parents is very important in the development of children, providing explanations to them is the main task for them so that they do not assume that what they do is always right.

[TopTort777]

That is why I have explain, taught and try to monitor my kids interest to gambling (so far it is zero). In my explanation, I have stressed attention that money should be earned by working (however not exactly hard), but easy money (won in gambling for example) will easy go, and a person should not rely much on easy and instant profit.

For me those suggestions as "gamble secretly", "hide gambling" and etc, looks similar to buying a huge bag of chips, candies, soda and ice cream, wait for kid to go to sleep, open all that and eat alone, and hide behind "I care about their health, I will eat it myself, so they wont turn fat". Or go to McDonalds alone (while having kids), because fast food is not healthy for kids.

[bubilas]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

[Jody.Drummer]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

I don't think it's that hard, or I mean to hide it from all family members maybe yes it's quite hard but to hide it from children I think it shouldn't be something that is difficult to do, I think most of us know about the time and all the activities that a child who is still underage has where in the morning they go to school and their bedtime is usually earlier than us as adults.
So you can use that time to gamble, if you work with normal working hours like leaving in the morning then yes you can gamble at night when a child is asleep, and if you work the night shift then you can use the daytime to gamble when a child is studying at school.

The point is when you really have the intention to hide your gambling habit from your family especially from a child then I think you will know what to do, remember that there is no compulsion at all to always gamble, I understand that maybe you can't gamble all the time even though you want to do it because of the situation and circumstances that don't support it, but when you can make yourself more patient in waiting for the right time then I think everything should be fine, in the sense that your family especially a child who is still a minor will not know about it and that's what I always do.

[summonerrk]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

It all depends on the type of gambling that the gambler has chosen for himself. For example, slots attract the gambler's attention, and he can only be distracted by pressing the Auto Spins button. Poker also requires high concentration. But betting is probably one of those types of gambling that do not require the gambler to be near a smartphone at all. Probably, this type of gambling is the most preferable for those who cannot afford to sit for a long time looking at the smartphone.

[Baki202]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

You actually gamble secretly without anybody noticing you since we have online gambling platforms you cannot actually hide your gambling since you are using your phone unlike the past years that you have to go to a betting shop to place your bet. The moment you keep it secret the better because people are always fund of judging people just because they don't gamble and everyone gamble because they need money. And you don't know when you will get lucky but a lot of people see gambling as the wrong thing to do and when you win they expect you to give them money. People that still gambling shops their children are always seen them with slips and the moment they find out that their dad gambles then they will always want to try it out because most kids wants to be like their father. The best thing if you are married and you don't want them to know if you are gambling or not gamble before coming home. That way when you come back they won't even know or even suspect you.

[passwordnow]

Any engagement with gambling and related activities must be hidden if you want to be a role model to them. I know that there's a kind of secretive here but you as a parent, you don't show your kids how you gamble, how emotional you are when doing it because they imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with.

Kids see you go to work every day, that you always have money, how happy you are when you buy yourself, a new car for example, but I see no kid today that will rush to start working as soon as possible So that "imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with" might not even happen. But, if you hide everything gambling related (that they will find out anyway), you limit them with new knowledge. Being smart and having extra knowledge was never bad.

It's not about the new knowledge if it's about gambling. We can introduce that to them later on when they're on the right age, there's so much for them to explore but not with gambling. As a parent, we know what they can be if they will be introduced to gambling at an early stage. That's what I think and I know that kids are curious with what they want to know but that doesn't make them smart if they know about gambling.

That brilliant mind they've got might put them into jeopardy by knowing it and then being curious about it. It's highly likely that they're going to try it when it's playing on their minds and that's why the trick is there and it's best not just to teach them if they're very young. Or, you just apply the rule of being the parent and you can teach what you want to your kid but to many, we won't do that probably.

[Onyeeze]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

if you are a someone who participate in gambling always three times in a week I don't think that it will be easy for you to hide gambling in the presence of your children so if you hide it today you cannot continue to hide it forever except that you are in someone who participate in gambling occasionally it is when that you can be able to evaluate your time of participation in gambling but provided that you are a regular gambler I don't think that you can maintain that status of hiding gambles and not to discuss anything that has to do with gambling in the presence of your family because one day someone will call you and you will not know when you discuss gambling in presence of your kids

[Accardo]

Whether they are your kids or not don't do this in front of them because kids emulate whatever adults do, exposing them to this lifestyle at that age might just ruin their future. That's why there are age limits and restrictions, I don't know if casino are still strict with the rule of stopping anyone not up to the age of 18 to gamble. Children are the leaders of tomorrow we should teach them valuable lessons about life. It's quite disheartening that a lot of children in Nigeria now know how to gamble

Online Casinos are working a lot to stiffen the restrictions on underage players. But, the online environment is wide enough for underaged players to boycott strict limits on their behalf. They can purchase verified KYC accounts and start gambling. Hence, society relies on parents to stop their wards from falling into the dangers of gambling.

Stopping parents from gambling around children should be the first preventive measure. Not just gambling in kids' presence; Parents should censor any gambling conversation. Their ears are sharp, and they practice whatever is said or done around them.

[uneng]

The fact society is concerned about kids gambling because they see their parents practicing this activity, just show how parents are inefficient educating their children. It's an absurd to think the possibility of children accessing their parents' credit cards exist. It shouldn't be hard to forbid a child access to a credit card, but it seems to be for the parents of our modern days. If it wasn't for this, kids wouldn't have other means to gamble, because they don't have an income to gamble with their own money.

Anyway, the modern world is full of bullshit. You can't do this or that, there are lots of concerns about good practices you have to do in order to sign virtues to society around you, but people have never been so sick and problematic as nowadays. This is totally contradicting, because the more people force artifically a politically correct world, less mentally health and satisfied people become.

I've always been familiar with gambling practice since an early age. I've always seen people gambling, media showing it on movies, TV programs and so on, but I have never became a problem gambler because of that.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

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.

Thank you very much for an important discussion.  Such discussion is very important for everyone. I think children's brains are so sharp they can remember anything once they see it. There are many parents who gamble in front of their children, I strongly forbid those parents to ever gamble in front of their children because you may be ruining your child's future, whether it is for entertainment or to make money. If you have to gamble, be sure to gamble away from home where your stay will not cause any problems. Gambling in secret is much better, it will maintain the respect in your society and the future of your child will not be ruined. I have seen many people around me who have ruined themselves by gambling on the Open and ruined many people as well. So it is better to maintain privacy for gambling.

[danherbias07]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

It's true, no secrets that will not be revealed especially when it's a hobby that takes a toll on your time. Sooner or later someone in your family will notice what you are doing or will secretly peek at your phone just to see what you had been busy about.
But, as much as possible we should not let the kids see it or watch us doing it on a daily basis. The kids in this era are growing wiser when it comes to technology, especially with the internet and applications. Heck, my phone has more gaming applications installed by my 5-year-old kid like it's a console game.
Let's try to keep their innocence in gambling be intact until they are at the right age to understand everything.

[HelliumZ]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

Yes it is true that gambling can never be participated in secret, of course it must be done with the room door closed if it is offline gambling. Online gambling is more popular and serious than offline gambling and online gambling can be mainly participated through mobile phones for which children are eagerly attracted to this gambling. Moreover, all the time gambling advertisements on mobiles are also playing the most important role in attracting children to gambling, so the current generation can never be free from the terrible effects of gambling.

[junder]

Online Casinos are working a lot to stiffen the restrictions on underage players. But, the online environment is wide enough for underaged players to boycott strict limits on their behalf. They can purchase verified KYC accounts and start gambling. Hence, society relies on parents to stop their wards from falling into the dangers of gambling.

Stopping parents from gambling around children should be the first preventive measure. Not just gambling in kids' presence; Parents should censor any gambling conversation. Their ears are sharp, and they practice whatever is said or done around them.

I disagree with this, because I think that currently there are many online casinos circulating and not all casinos apply age restrictions. There are indeed some casinos that tighten the age restrictions to play them, but not all casinos do this. Casinos will not care who does online gambling because what they are looking for is profit, so anyone can do it and there is no exception. Besides that, I doubt that they will be able to buy an account that has been verified by KYC. Maybe I think they will look for a casino that does not involve KYC.

Parents will definitely teach their children good and positive things. However, when they already have their own social circle, of course, it can also affect their children in the future, and if parents succeed in educating their children, the child can distinguish between good things to do and things to avoid. However, it cannot be denied that the influence of social circles is quite large, so it is not surprising that children know about gambling and hide it from their parents. There is nothing that can definitely prevent them from gambling online because of course their children are also involved in the developments that are currently developing.

[klidex]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

Yes it is true that gambling can never be participated in secret, of course it must be done with the room door closed if it is offline gambling. Online gambling is more popular and serious than offline gambling and online gambling can be mainly participated through mobile phones for which children are eagerly attracted to this gambling. Moreover, all the time gambling advertisements on mobiles are also playing the most important role in attracting children to gambling, so the current generation can never be free from the terrible effects of gambling.

I don't understand what you mean by your statement that gambling should not be done secretly but when the bedroom door is closed? Isn't that the same as doing it secretly? where your family doesn't know your activities and your children don't see you gambling directly? and offline gambling? if you play offline gambling, you shouldn't play at home but rather play at a gambling place that is provided, if at home most online gambling is via cellphone, laptop, iPad, or PC.

No matter how clever we are at hiding gambling from children, eventually they will find out, if we don't want them to know, never gamble when they are at home, at least always avoid gambling from them so that they don't think badly of us as gambling parents.

[Rabata]

I think it is almost impossible to gamble secretly and do it without your family noticing.
I have heard stories from gamblers a hundred times, when their children ask to pay attention to them, but the gambler looks at his phone and says that he has a lot of important things to do.

And even if you try to gamble at night, sooner or later such a hobby will be revealed, because gambling often requires urgent actions and time.

Yes it is true that gambling can never be participated in secret, of course it must be done with the room door closed if it is offline gambling. Online gambling is more popular and serious than offline gambling and online gambling can be mainly participated through mobile phones for which children are eagerly attracted to this gambling. Moreover, all the time gambling advertisements on mobiles are also playing the most important role in attracting children to gambling, so the current generation can never be free from the terrible effects of gambling.

I don't understand what you mean by your statement that gambling should not be done secretly but when the bedroom door is closed? Isn't that the same as doing it secretly? where your family doesn't know your activities and your children don't see you gambling directly? and offline gambling? if you play offline gambling, you shouldn't play at home but rather play at a gambling place that is provided, if at home most online gambling is via cellphone, laptop, iPad, or PC.

No matter how clever we are at hiding gambling from children, eventually they will find out, if we don't want them to know, never gamble when they are at home, at least always avoid gambling from them so that they don't think badly of us as gambling parents.

Avoiding gambling at home is essential to keep children safe from gambling altogether. However, as much as we try, those who gamble online often manage to gamble at home, although not always in a conducive environment. Sometimes we can be interrupted by other family members while gambling. If there are children, they will try to look at it in various ways which may at one time make them interested in doing the work. If there was a scope then of course gambling outside the home would have kept children safe but as a gambler it would be very difficult to do this at this stage. However, the family member who is gambling must be careful not to be imitated by the children.

[TopTort777]

Any engagement with gambling and related activities must be hidden if you want to be a role model to them. I know that there's a kind of secretive here but you as a parent, you don't show your kids how you gamble, how emotional you are when doing it because they imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with.

Kids see you go to work every day, that you always have money, how happy you are when you buy yourself, a new car for example, but I see no kid today that will rush to start working as soon as possible So that "imitate what we do, what we feel, and what we're engaging with" might not even happen. But, if you hide everything gambling related (that they will find out anyway), you limit them with new knowledge. Being smart and having extra knowledge was never bad.

It's not about the new knowledge if it's about gambling. We can introduce that to them later on when they're on the right age, there's so much for them to explore but not with gambling. As a parent, we know what they can be if they will be introduced to gambling at an early stage. That's what I think and I know that kids are curious with what they want to know but that doesn't make them smart if they know about gambling.

That brilliant mind they've got might put them into jeopardy by knowing it and then being curious about it. It's highly likely that they're going to try it when it's playing on their minds and that's why the trick is there and it's best not just to teach them if they're very young. Or, you just apply the rule of being the parent and you can teach what you want to your kid but to many, we won't do that probably.

How can gambling be not a new knowledge for them if it is about knowing or not knowing what it is. A little remark: not every knowledge about something that kids gain, are taught them to make them start doing it early.

I see you have mentioned "on the right age". What is this age then? Please dont say 18 When they are 18, they will teach parents about gambling. Until 18, they are all kids to me. Of course I wont give a detailed explanation to a 2yo kid, but someone 12+ is old enough to know the truth.

You have mentioned that they are going to try it as soon as they see or know it. Just curious, when was the first time you saw a cigarette or someone smoking? I think you were younger than 18. Even if you havent tried it, I believe parents convinced or found right words for you to understand that you can either try it at 18 or 21, or not try at all, and you have listened to them. Why dont you think same can work with gambling?