You're absolutely right about the importance of parental education in guiding children through life's challenges. It's essential to remember that while any addiction can be harmful, gambling itself is intended to be a source of pleasure and entertainment. By fostering a healthy understanding and approach to gambling as to all leisure activities parents can help their children enjoy these activities responsibly and safely.
Yes, parents education is necessary for their children so that they are not involved in things that will harm them. If parents can be friends and parents, their children will not hide what they do because they already trust their parents. They also won't want to try gambling because they already understand the impact of gambling on them.
There are many other activities that children can do besides gambling, especially using their devices more often than doing physical activities. We have seen that children in this era prefer to use their devices rather than do physical activities, and this is what causes a lack of socialization with each other.
I am sure that most parents are doing the best that they can already, it is just that now in many countries around the world both parents have to work in order to keep themselves afloat, and this is causing that many kids are growing without a strong parental figure that can guide them, so many of those kids are now looking the answers to their questions online, and as we know they can find all kind of mistaken information there that could warp the view they may have about gambling and they may try it at such an early age.
Sad reality that most of the time both parents needs to work to address the needs of their family, to extent that they need to work overtime and with that situation the time that they need to spend for their kids, and like what you mentioned there are
many wrong information that the kids can get from the internet,
if you are not careful with what you are doing around your kids and they see you playing some type of gambling, that curiosty will arise and they will find ways to learn about the game,
it will be easier for those kids to find something that they will follow even as early as 4 years old which is now ready to adopt even those information are wrongly presented by those who are sharing it online.
Main word is many. Kids have access to enormous amount of information. Every single knowledge is accessible to them thanks to the internet. That is why focusing on hiding just one thing as gambling, when it isnt proved by science that every one who gamble get addicted, seems wrong to me. Hide one thing, they find interest in 100 other things.
With access to the internet, adults create problem out of everything, as they share each and every accidental fart they made and pump that problem to the size of the universe. Parents real all that crap about one kid who lived in Vegas in a family of gamblers, and who all of a sudden showed interest to gambling, which parents understood as addiction. And start to claim that everyone who has ever heard or saw an act of gambling, catches it like a kid in kindergarten catches running nose during seasonal flu.