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Thank God people are starting to notice on stuff like this because this is a big deal, if children and/or teens are getting into gambling because they see it as normal, we'd be seeing an epidemic of future adult gamblers that are going to be addicted to gambling, I think that parents should be educated right now about this and that it's alright to be strict or heavy handed when it comes to gambling, we all know that it's going to be a bad time for them in the future so why not try to stop them now and tell them what they might end up in the future if they continue gambling, maybe having a monitor for your child's online activity might be the best option even though it violates their privacy.

If the teens are still under their parent's care, parents I think should have the right to know what their kids are doing online and on their phones. Whether privacy is an issue or not, my teenager will definitely be under martial law and I will check their apps and browsing history.

Teens are yet not fully aware of what they are doing just as Colby Cotrone said, they are fans of the sport but they are crossing the line already when they gamble. Government agencies may step in if it becomes an epidemic already. Australian government AFAIK is doing lots of things to prevent their citizen from gambling including banning ads everywhere.

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I think these days technology is advanced more that other years back. So presently, all smartphones have a feature called parental guide, this feature helps parents to control their childrens phone 100%. This is a nice feature that helps all parents to protect their child from online gamble and other online activities that makes children and teenagers not concentrate on other important activities. A teenager who understands computers so well can easily clear up their browser history anytime they are done with what they are doing. A teenager who's engaging on gamble both online and offline line doesn't know the dangers in front. As a teenager, you don't work and unless the person is a street hustler, gamble is a thing that a matured minded person should do because there might be a loss that a teenager will have an will not be okay with it because he's not matured enough to handle gamble losses.

I have a 10 year old kid. I tried doing this, no access to real youtube but Youtube Kids, the kid didn't enjoy using the phone I gave. TV with netflix and youtube is where where we watch together and after some time, the remote is now with him all the time. But I'm fine with it since I can see what he is watching. Its the laptop the he is using is something I can't monitor since its where he do his school work.

After spending some time with his cousins, he already learn lots of gambling terms. Hard monitoring when you spend less together. You prevented him from learning these stuff only to find out cousins are teaching him.

Well if that's the case, it would also help home when you also tell him the dangers that are involved in gamble. Teenager need to know that if an adult could become an addicted gambler then a teenager will also become addicted also. What I have seen so far from addiction gambler that are adult is that they takes loan so that they can gamble, but for a teenager who do t have anywhere to borrow, he or she will steal from their parents or from friends so that they could gamble. However, for a parent who doesn't stay close to his or her child all the time, the best time is to always advise the child and also give them what they want so that they too will avoid a lot of things, like gamble smoking and other things that they will not inherit any meaningful things from.