In this current age and Time, it has become extremely hard to keep kids away from something that is widely done like gambling we just have to educate the kids on the fact about gambling and how hard it is to get out of gambling once you become huck to it, and to avoid that kid's needs not to be greedy and should not stake money on games unless if the regular computer games.
for me, kids are supposed to be keep away from gambling so that they will not noticed what's gambling at early stage because if children noticed what's gambling at the early stages that will make them to learn how to steal and you will be having a missing funds in your home, and any child that started early to look how to make money doesn't concentrate to the aspects their parents keep them
Anything children learn it will be hard for them desist from it and that is why is not good for we to allow a child that is not up to eighteen years to start gambling when the child has not started making her own money, those things is something that we are suppose to know that supposed make us to keep children away from gambling and also not to discuss anything that has to do with gambling in the presence of children.
As a parent, I think everyone does that, but it can't be done forever because they will also know it themselves from the outside environment or from their friends.
I myself see that in my environment, parents don't gamble much, maybe it can be said that only a small number of parents gamble. However, when looking at the age of teenagers, almost all of them gamble. So is this because they see their parents gambling? Of course not, but they know gambling from the outside environment or from friends who already know gambling.
if as a parent your children have not seen you do certain things, even if everyone in the environment does that same thing, it will take a lot of conviction and persuasion before you teenage child will go into that. depending on the kind of environment you live in and how much freedom you give to your child, you can for a start tell him the danger that is associated to gambling at an early age and discourage him from indulging in what he does not have the financial means of sustaining for the long term. the reality remains that regardless of what you tell them, when it gets to that age where they start to explore things, there is going to be little you can do about it but while they are still young and under your watch, you can even be as strict as possible and ensure that you discourage them from gambling at all.
for some of us that are of an African descent where parents have the complete right of disciplining their children to whatever level they want to, as a parent, you can be very strict with them and discipline them if you ever see them gambling. that is what real parenting is all about, by the time you have trained them that way, when they grow up and on their own decide to gamble, it will reduce how vulnerable they are to gambling since they already have some infornation on the negative side of gambling.