I Stumbled on a news that "Betting Companies in Uganda Luring Students to lost their Futures" with fake bonuses and promise of big wins. According to the explanation, the time you use in the casino
Anything can affect a child's educational performance, we should not see gambling nas the only thing that does so, too much playing can contribute to poor performance, lack of balance diet and malnutrition in a child can cause a lot of psychological and emotional imbalance causing poor performance in academic, while gambling should be seen as a way of introducing series of games to children to play without money being involved, in other to help exercise their brain for more increased active participations, thereby boosting their brain and academic performance.
I disagree. First of all talking of "gambling as a way to introduce games to children without money being involved" doesn't make a lot of sense because gambling does require money being involved otherwise it wouldn't be gambling. And you can gamble on anything. Psychologically also can have severe effects on you because it affects certain areas of the brain and the younger you are the easier to get more affected. I used to bet on football matches with my schoolmates when I was in high school and after a while I realized that I was thinking too much about gambling and I stopped. But I must admit that for a minute I was scared of the direction this gambling game was taking. Gambling is not like videogames, it can become way more addictive.