Concerns grow over online gambling among teens

[cabron]

The question was if I agree with this and the answer is: it depends but probably no.
I feel like children are already overwhelmed with the amount of useless stuff the government is trying to teach them, like all the sexual education, gender pronouns, ecology and now they want to teach them about gambling? Isn't that interfering with the basics that parents should be teaching their children? There's knowledge children should acquire at home, for instance if the family is religious it should educate children in that matter, but now schools are trying to teach religion. This is a waste of time and money if you ask me.

Very much agree with your opinion bud, this is also inline with what I said before in my previous comment, children don't need to be taught anything concerning gambling because I personally think it will be counter productive, in the sense that the knowledge of this things can turn around to act as a gambling promotion to the kids, specially the ones that weren't into gambling before.

A much better solution like I've also said before is for the government to start  working closely with both online and offline casinos to bring strict regulation on the issue of underaged/children and teenage gambling, when government sets out in full force to prosecute any child and his or her parents who is caught gambling while the child is not up to the age that is set as the minimum one must attain before he or she starts engaging in gambling, then children will automatically refrain from gambling, also, parents will become up and doing in making sure they give their wards the necessary training on things to avoid doing at their tender age.

I agree with some examples he cited. There are just things that don't need to be taught in schools. These are what they are up to while not even teaching how money works, handling money, and economics which is even more important for the kids to learn at an early stage. But they instead gender pronouns that make them confuse instead.

When the school started sex education, it didn't help diminish the number of teens getting pregnant in contrast bloated to numbers. Its possible this could also happen in gambling education.

[Dewi Aries]

The question was if I agree with this and the answer is: it depends but probably no.
I feel like children are already overwhelmed with the amount of useless stuff the government is trying to teach them, like all the sexual education, gender pronouns, ecology and now they want to teach them about gambling? Isn't that interfering with the basics that parents should be teaching their children? There's knowledge children should acquire at home, for instance if the family is religious it should educate children in that matter, but now schools are trying to teach religion. This is a waste of time and money if you ask me.

Overall I believe the first thing is that schools don't really care about something that is not their job, or I mean they will only teach something that is common in schools that can improve a child's skills and knowledge (regardless of whether the child can understand it or not), and also as you said that a child is already overwhelmed with learning, most of them always feel lazy when it comes to everything that has to be learned.

On the other hand, gambling is not something that everyone should know about, although the goal is good, namely to prevent a child from getting involved in gambling by telling them about all the consequences that can be caused, but it is a fact that a child who is still underage is still unstable and still has a lot of curiosity. This means that isn't it better not to tell them about gambling at all? Obviously, because a child who is still underage will not think too much about the impact, simply put if they are curious then they will do it, and this is why for gambling problems it is better to return to the parents, or it means that it is better for parents to overcome and prepare about all forms of prevention.

[Spaceman1000$]

"It's time for schools to focus on the root cause of online teen gambling by implementing gambling prevention education in all high schools. Health class curricula across the nation cover the typical risks for teens such as smoking, drinking, vaping, etc yet gambling education is nowhere to be found in our schools. "

This is what Colby Cotrone said when interviewed by NBC News about the article he published in NYpost about the online gambling trend among teens causing concern because, in the school halls, they can already overhear teens checking odds and their parlays like it's the most casual thing to do in the campus. This is due to the gambling apps easily downloaded by anyone.

When Marc Potenza the Director of the Center of Excellence in Gambling Research was asked whether they were seeing young patients calling for help, he said there is an increase of 90% in young males with sports gambling problems. Either the patient himself or the parents calling for them. https://youtu.be/pCDbvDDLpFg?t=313

What's striking the most of what Colby Cotrone said was that kids are unaware of what they are doing. Could it be that even the grown-up man may also not be aware of what he is doing as over time a gambler may be consumed by how much he enjoyed the thrills of gambling?

They think they are doing something as simple as rooting for thier favorite players but it's turned more into making money than the game and having fun as a fan. - Colby Cotrone

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

To reduce the number of teen that plays gamble online, the gambling site should make sure that, for anybody to be able book a game on their site, they most register and part of the registration should be that, you most show an ID that will be verified by the gambling company, to show that your an adult registering on the site, before they can allow you book any game.

I think the school has little role to play, it has more to do with parenting, parents should be checking the gadgets of their teens to know the kind of site they browse at least on a regular basis, the policing of the children activities has lots to do with the parents, the teachers spend few hours with them, however it's not within their job predictions.

[STT]

Smartest way to cut actual gambling while young but also while an adult is education primarily maths.   If you know the maths to compare and contrast every gambling game, every bet for its value and validity then you are going to be far safer then relying on the law and regulations to put everything behind safety tape for you.

Telling people what they can and cant do is not the most effective method, it makes people believe the game is more attractive and forbidden, we cant even inform people of cancer and smoking and its been decades of solid research.   Make everything as transparent as possible and you have an obvious cause and effect, endless laws can cover things up & it can be quite ironic.

[Uhwuchukwu53]

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

If gambling prevention education is done for below 18s, it will even help those above 18s that were taught the lesson during their under 18 ages. I will like to see this kind of thing but I do not think it would be possible.

The best education children can have is from home. Parents should start teaching their children gambling prevention education. So that if the children wants to gamble later when they are grown ups, they will know they should use small amount of money which would have been part of the education.

Deeply concur to this parents role in the life of their children as regards to gambling can't not be under estimated, allot of wrong and addicted of gambling by most children is due to negligence by parents, improper parenting and lack of good communication.
Communication has a greater role between parents and children a good communication between parents and children can reshape any environmental negative influence that would have occur to the child because the early information through the parents communication will savage it as the information from the parents we became counter attack where such influence will not penetrate or have dominion on that child.

Many wrong today in the society is as a breached of the parents children communication as all this is given to teacher, minder etc why the parent impact is not felt by the child, inorder to cut off child engagement or been addicted to gambling as tender age parents need good communication to the ur children as that can make them know the environmental influences they don't need to que in.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

I think it will be very cool to implement this kind of education in schools. Perhaps there is a saying that "children are the leaders of tomorrow." So, whatever is necessary to protect and project the future of our kids is very welcome. It will be very bad to overlook the rate at which teens are involved in gambling, which could turn out to affect the future of our kids if they become addicted gamblers in the future. 

Also, I think parents have a large role to play too; they have to properly look after their kids to make sure they are not involving themselves in gambling when they are not even at the age of gambling. 

If "gambling prevention education in schools" can be implemented, that will also go a long way toward helping. 

[uneng]

Smartest way to cut actual gambling while young but also while an adult is education primarily maths.   If you know the maths to compare and contrast every gambling game, every bet for its value and validity then you are going to be far safer then relying on the law and regulations to put everything behind safety tape for you.

Telling people what they can and cant do is not the most effective method, it makes people believe the game is more attractive and forbidden, we cant even inform people of cancer and smoking and its been decades of solid research.   Make everything as transparent as possible and you have an obvious cause and effect, endless laws can cover things up & it can be quite ironic.

It's true. People have to be taught the logics and rationality behind gambling game, instead of just learning it should be avoided at all costs. If they don't understand why gambling should be avoided or taken in small dosages, why would they do this in first place?

It makes me remember my childhood, when adults told me to avoid bees, because they were dangerous. Other children screamed and ran from them, but I simply couldn't understand why they acted like that, since bees looked inoffensive to me. Due to that belief from my part, I decided to kill one with my bare hands someday, just like we use to do with flies.

Then for my surprise, I felt a harsh and continuous pain on my hand and it instantly swelled, due to the sting. If people had explained me why bees were dangerous instead of only saying they were dangerous, I wouldn't have acted like that.

The same goes with gambling. If people don't know why it's dangerous, of course they will go for it without any precautions, at least not until they feel a harsh pain on their pockets...

[Accardo]

Even though gambling education has been around for a long time, unfortunately it has not reduced the percentage of gambling among teenagers and shows that it is not very effective in preventing the rise of gambling among teenagers. It is not easy for us to give advice to the younger generation, especially in this day and age where almost everything is online, so it will be difficult to prevent children from gambling because every time they hold a smartphone, advertisements for gambling sites will appear on their smartphone screen, whether intentionally or not, and this is a strong influence for them to start with gamble.

The educations available still didn't make positive changes in reducing the rate of users or consumers. An activity like gambling  is widely accepted in the society that the educations available wouldn't get half the publicity of gambling. Most times it increases the publicity and the rate people want to try it. Provided they've seen gamblers that have made money in the game. Their trust would be on what they see, not what they hear in classrooms.

You'd notice a high rate of people who pay deaf ears to risk, all for the sake of money. Assuming these people carefully attend classes to genuinely change or stop a gambling habit, a huge impact would have been made in the lives of young people. Learning requires interest. If the students are not deeply interested in a specific class they would learn or practice what is been thought.

[CryptSafe]

If this is the case, then it would be necessary that gambling education introduced into the school curriculum. I was initially against move of supporting  gambling education at the secondary school but however, it is pertinent that steps be taken to curtail such otherwise the society will be greeted with underage gamblers.

I also had a second thought over it since government age limit for gambling is 18 and we all know that both  schools are populated with children below that age do you think the government would give consent to allowing gambling education be taught in the elementary schools?

[boty]

The educations available still didn't make positive changes in reducing the rate of users or consumers. An activity like gambling  is widely accepted in the society that the educations available wouldn't get half the publicity of gambling. Most times it increases the publicity and the rate people want to try it. Provided they've seen gamblers that have made money in the game. Their trust would be on what they see, not what they hear in classrooms.

You'd notice a high rate of people who pay deaf ears to risk, all for the sake of money. Assuming these people carefully attend classes to genuinely change or stop a gambling habit, a huge impact would have been made in the lives of young people. Learning requires interest. If the students are not deeply interested in a specific class they would learn or practice what is been thought.

Many people want to try it, of course this will be difficult in educating the public about the bad impacts caused by gambling and with all the ease it can be accessed by anyone, of course this will attract them to try it and moreover, they have seen other people win their bets and things like that. This will of course attract their attention to try it.
To be able to stop the habit of gambling is not an easy thing, even though we have explained at length the impacts that gambling will have, if we teach students about the impacts that will be felt as a result of gambling, it is not certain that they will comply if they have already gambled.

[swogerino]

I will be clear and frank here.I was just to dinner with my wife in a restaurant near the park where we take our daughter to play and that restaurant is frequented heavily by teens being a new modern one with tons of options in fast food beside fancy dinners.I saw that the kids now 14-15 years old were completely different and I would call them crazy compared to when I was 15 near 30 years ago,we were happy to watch some good movies like Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck and play some playstation while the kids of today they were all smoking cigarettes and they got to the bathroom God knows what else they were smoking.It is only natural that the gambling surges in such type of society with these kind of persons,I was really disappointed tonight and I am worried about my daughter already,I would do the max to not let her become one of them.So the gambling surging is only normal for me and it should be news that is surging,news is that how to fight it in such persons.

[goaldigger]

If this is the case, then it would be necessary that gambling education introduced into the school curriculum. I was initially against move of supporting  gambling education at the secondary school but however, it is pertinent that steps be taken to curtail such otherwise the society will be greeted with underage gamblers.

I also had a second thought over it since government age limit for gambling is 18 and we all know that both  schools are populated with children below that age do you think the government would give consent to allowing gambling education be taught in the elementary schools?

Several groups will be totally against this one and it will not be easy to implement it.
Though I support this initiative because many are really exposed in gambling at a very young age and its alarming. In my country alone, many are being encourage to gamble by the social media influencers as they have this promotion at the end of their video. If the government really want to stop this, then they should start to strictly implement the policy.

[nara1892]

Gambling education could have been existing since a long time ago but not common or not existing in some countries. I can say that there is nothing like gambling education in Asia and Africa. I do not think it is common in North America, Europe and South America and Australia. We only even saw this today but which could be ineffective. What we noticed more is that gambling is becoming more common among teen and the under aged are not given a better education on gambling.

Even though gambling education has been around for a long time, unfortunately it has not reduced the percentage of gambling among teenagers and shows that it is not very effective in preventing the rise of gambling among teenagers. It is not easy for us to give advice to the younger generation, especially in this day and age where almost everything is online, so it will be difficult to prevent children from gambling because every time they hold a smartphone, advertisements for gambling sites will appear on their smartphone screen, whether intentionally or not, and this is a strong influence for them to start with gamble.

Yes and I think one of the reasons is that the object of victory in gambling is money which everyone needs money and most gamblers come because they see that other people managed to win big without them knowing what that person has gone through to be able to win, meaning that we cannot close our eyes that money is everything in life and that may be one of the reasons why people still come to gamble even though they have heard education about the dangers of gambling if it is used as a place to earn income. In addition, as you said, most people now prefer to spend most of their time playing on the internet while most online casinos make the internet their biggest promotion site so it's only natural that in the end many teenagers fall into it intentionally or not.

[Lida93]

, in the school halls, they can already overhear teens checking odds and their parlays like it's the most casual thing to do in the campus. This is due to the gambling apps easily downloaded by anyone.

It's not really about the  how ease it is to download the gambling apps even if they put some hurdles any interested person in gamble will find his/her way at all cost. One thing that I see that is attracting more and more teens to gambling in our society today is due to their high consciousness and awareness about money and this makes them keen to easily get interested to engage into anything that promises to offer money, and that's what gambling does, it makes you believe you could seamlessly make some cash from it with just sheer predictions and catching fun.

Maybe when parents and every other person start shaping a different mentality into  their child and wards about how they perceive money they will be guided against getting involved in just anything just to make money.

We have been so crafted to believe that money is just everything nowadays, so how do we not expect the teens not to get involved in gambling growing up with these ideas. To gamble you don't need any qualifications, skills, experience neither will you go through any interview, and this makes it a great option for nay teen looking for money to take his or her chances in order to get that bicycle or video game he or she needs.
 

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

Implementing a gambling prevention education won't make that sort of positive change as many will be thinking it to achieve. The truth is that morals and ethics are quickly depleting among many things we teach our kids these days, and this makes them unable to know the boundary between adult activities from those of kids. They just literally want to try everything they can lay hands on.

[mirakal]

Smartest way to cut actual gambling while young but also while an adult is education primarily maths.   If you know the maths to compare and contrast every gambling game, every bet for its value and validity then you are going to be far safer then relying on the law and regulations to put everything behind safety tape for you.

Telling people what they can and cant do is not the most effective method, it makes people believe the game is more attractive and forbidden, we cant even inform people of cancer and smoking and its been decades of solid research.   Make everything as transparent as possible and you have an obvious cause and effect, endless laws can cover things up & it can be quite ironic.

Getting these people educated about the risks and losses of gambling could be a good option, but still we can’t expect that everyone will come to avoid gambling now that they know already that gambling is not designed to grow their money but will only make their money grow less until they lose everything they have. People, most particularly teens are most likely hard headed until they prove to theirselves that gambling will not bring any good in the end.

However, I guess the best option so that teens will not be tempted to gamble is to banned online gambling at all. I believe a lot would not agree to this but I can see this is possible especially if the government insist of doing it for the sake of the minors not falling into gambling addiction.

[Zoomic]

Even though gambling education has been around for a long time, unfortunately it has not reduced the percentage of gambling among teenagers and shows that it is not very effective in preventing the rise of gambling among teenagers. It is not easy for us to give advice to the younger generation, especially in this day and age where almost everything is online, so it will be difficult to prevent children from gambling because every time they hold a smartphone, advertisements for gambling sites will appear on their smartphone screen, whether intentionally or not, and this is a strong influence for them to start with gamble.

The educations available still didn't make positive changes in reducing the rate of users or consumers. An activity like gambling  is widely accepted in the society that the educations available wouldn't get half the publicity of gambling. Most times it increases the publicity and the rate people want to try it. Provided they've seen gamblers that have made money in the game. Their trust would be on what they see, not what they hear in classrooms.

You'd notice a high rate of people who pay deaf ears to risk, all for the sake of money. Assuming these people carefully attend classes to genuinely change or stop a gambling habit, a huge impact would have been made in the lives of young people. Learning requires interest. If the students are not deeply interested in a specific class they would learn or practice what is been thought.

Over the years, the focus has been on preventing young people from getting involved in gambling activities but the whole approach used so far is not yielding any result, rather we keep getting cases of young people getting stuck with gambling problems. Whether you prevent them from gambling now, they will still learn it later, but our only concern is them learning it the wrong way.

These teens should be taught a healthy gambling lifestyle instead, this way we will be sure these kids are safe even if they gamble. I have come to realize that most young people who get into trouble do things out of curiosity in secret and without proper guidance because adults  who are supposed to guide them, prevented them from doing so. If a teen wants to gamble badly, let them gamble but teach them how to gamble responsibly.

[LUCKMCFLY]

You'd notice a high rate of people who pay deaf ears to risk, all for the sake of money. Assuming these people carefully attend classes to genuinely change or stop a gambling habit, a huge impact would have been made in the lives of young people. Learning requires interest. If the students are not deeply interested in a specific class they would learn or practice what is been thought.

What you say is very true, but you have to start from something, from a fundamental principle, a teenager at this stage of life, some already have a clear idea of what they are going to be, and they have the intention of doing things, like They plan, it is their responsibility, they are preparing themselves so that they can be good men and women and what they can contribute to the world, however if they let themselves be led down wrong paths, that is something that they decide, the casino game, the games casino, Sports bets are options that they have to win money, but they also know that they can lose, That is why games of chance are not suitable for minors, and that is why they will never be accepted in casinos, because some teenagers do not even know what what do they want

[Bitcoinsummoner]

The gambling industry is growing into more a trillion dollar industry and there are more people who are gambling now than ever before and it is increasing. Sadly on the underaged gambling is also on the rise and if it is not checked it becomes a epidemic that may be difficult for countries and government to control. Right now, it is still at the starting stage and the government needs to act fast. I know they are doing a lot of TV, radio, internet campaigns against under-gambling but they need to take it a bit further by going into schools, and yes inputting preventing gambling education in schools. They need to have counselors talk to students about the dangers of gambling addiction and having an open door policy for students to be able to freely talk about their struggles with gambling and then offering them help three of charge.

I totally agree with what you said. I want to share something with you. I think every country should include a book called Gambling in their textbooks. There will be only the harmful effects of the world's dreaded virus called Gambling. And detailing the solution of how a student or a person can come back to normal life from an addiction. Thus it is possible to save a young nation from the destructive side of gambling.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Teenagers have a very vulnerable psyche, and if you introduce some strict bans on visiting online casinos, then these bans will lead to the opposite. A teenager, thinking that he is an adult, will do the opposite. Therefore, the pedagogy of such relationships with a teenager should be associated with parents and school. I come from a family where non-gambling interests are very well represented, and examples of what gambling can lead to at a young age. A teenager copies everything he sees nearby. If you live a healthy and correct life, having full contact and trust with your child, then in the future he is unlikely to become a victim of addiction to something harmful. As for the Internet, the Internet is a trap for lonely people. The more real friends and live communication you have offline, the less craving you will have for games and everything else on the Internet.

[Churchillvv]

Teens gambling is on the increase because online casinos or betting apps are free for them to reach and when they launches this apps it only ask them if you're up to 18 years or not and certainly they will choose 18 if they are below that age hence serious restrictions on online gambling casinos to prevent teens from gambling.

In my school days just a few years back or 2 years precisely when I was in the secondary educations I have witnessed my friends fight over Messi and Ronaldo's case and that gave me concerns but since I wasn't into football I usually snobs this issues but where I get worried is when they get reported to the head teachers who are males especially, this teachers instead of punishing the students they go ahead to analyse the difference between Messi and Ronaldo for the fighters making the students feel they are okay woth fighting over gambling related stuffs.

And as a result of this some gambled in classes even when lectures are going on but it seems right in their eyes because nobody is interested in cautioning them so if their is an implementation to prevent gambling in the educational system as below then it's very much welcomed.

And would you agree with him in implementing gambling prevention education in schools?

Yes of course I agree with that, secondary educations are the ground where you build a reasonable citizen or student because at that point they tend to be aware of their actions gradually.