We must teach our children the value of time, money and effort. Otherwise they can fall into wrong path easily and it might be damage their next 5-10-15 and even their life. Gambling is required some kind of patience and intelligence skills luck isnt enough only.
I am not sure about other community - but in our community parents have a very strict check on their kids. Even if kids play adult games they do it in hidden.
But replying to OP - I think the mobile phone and internet time should be controlled. Giving kids freedom of everything is inviting trouble!
I also have a strict parents and even my relatives, they don’t let their Children to expose much of their time on their mobile phones which I think is really good, I’m also living on a country where we don’t tolerate much of this thing but sometimes, things are really uncontrolled by the parents. Proper guidance is the key here, if they get exposed on gambling that could be a big trouble for the whole family.
Just avoid them on things which you do seem that would really potentially affect their future.It might not really be that perfect since we cant monitor them 24/7 and now that we are on a digital age where
everything could easily be accessed out which means that they are really that prone into different things not only on gambling but also in pornography which is something not that really
good to see if our kids do really make out some engagement like that.
As parents, keeping them under tight control can be both beneficial and harmful. Of course, it is impossible to keep them 7/24 under control. Neither they nor we are robots. That's why they needs our guidance to keep forwarding on right path. If we give them the right clue, they can come to the right conclusion by themselves.
I would have to partially disagree with some of what you said. For example the part with keeping children under tight control could be both beneficial and harmful. I doubt that this can be as beneficial as it is harmful.
While I completely understand and empathize with parents wanting the best possible security for their children, its just wrong to deny them the priviledge of learning from their own mistakes.
Thats how everyone grows up, making mistakes and learning from them. Thats the only way to become a better person.
Take gambling for example: once the child loses their monthly allowance, they will feel the consequences of their actions and no longer will want to lose money by gambling ever again. A parents nagging is a mere annoyance which might actually have the opposite effect and your kid will do bad things just to go against you.