Would you allow your child to bet if it was entirely your call?

[mofome]

[Shark79]

If his underage I would say no ... and just teach him how to wager ... once hes 18 .. if he wants to? sure, but not with my cash ... gotta work for it

[rake922]

no I would not.

[robmpink]

F no

[BuddyBear]

Ummm....no

[20Four7]

Yes. My daughter is 15. I"ve taught her to play poker, taken her to the track. She can read a program probably better than 1/2 the people there. I've given her money to bet with. It's not a big deal. The key is to "teach" them not throw them out there. Responsible gambling starts early not when the kid's 18 and you say ok go to it son.....

[SBR Lou]

I don't think this question was meant literally as would you allow your underage child to bet, so my answer is yes. I would hope to be the kind of parent that doesn't micromanage his kids.

[Finpro]

good job mooofooo, where did you dig out this classic?
You are the numero uno power poster

[BrentCrude]

It was different in the 60's and 70's.

Back when I was a kid there was hardly any gambling at all.The town's few clubs would have a casino night once or twice a year each.There were always back room card games in the bars and clubs but it was for old fogeys who were way in their 20's,30's-to 80's.hehe!There were no lotteries.They had punch boards at the bars that were illegal,shake a day dice cup at the bars=illegal and there were football boards-squares=illegal.

The only legal betting was a day or two drive away at places like the Black Hills Greyhound track,Aksarben in Omaha,Sodrac greyhounds south of Sioux Falls and Assiniboia Downs race track in Winnipeg.There were other bush league tracks too.So no one ever vacationed in Omaha so the vacation place with tracks were Black Hills and once in awhile in Winnipeg.

I would have enough to bet on 5 races=$10 and my old man would place the bets for me and if I had 5 losers in the first 5 races,it was just watching the muts and nags and not betting on them.You sort of wanted to bet conservatively making show bets on favorites where you got your two bucks back and 80 cents more if you were lucky.hehe!Then when you are a kid you see the tote board saying a dog or horse is 99-1 and trifectas are paying $1000 at times and you have this confidence that it's so easy to pick longshots.Hell,sometimes the 99-1 shots looked like nicer animals than the even money favorite.You figured you were getting a real bargain!Then of course a minute later you had a losing ticket in your hand because your pick was an also ran.

The most dangerous thing I think would have been if I would have picked some longshot trifecta paying in the $1000's.That was when you could have bought a pickup truck for $2500.It would have been fun as hell for a kid to have that much money but you would have gotten the gambling bug so bad you would have been ruined for life.

I had to save my other $40 to buy fireworks on the way home and I used to sell 3/4 of them and gross about $90 and have the other 1/4th to blow off myself.Fun times but simple times!

[jackpot269]

yes but hope shes better at it than her dad!!!!!!!!! Maybe she could just fad me!!!!!!!!!!

[jjgold]

Under 18 no and would educate them

After 18 I would warn about the dangers of gambling and try and tell them not to be like me and end up in a fukkin basement

MoFo you cocksucker you would book your own kids action to make a buck.

[thegreatdiatchi]

Yes but only with his/her spare cash.

[mofome]

Under 18 no and would educate them

After 18 I would warn about the dangers of gambling and try and tell them not to be like me and end up in a fukkin basement

MoFo you cocksucker you would book your own kids action to make a buck.

[gridiron guru]

Easy Answer...hell No

[mofome]

good job mooofooo, where did you dig out this classic?
You are the numero uno power poster

haha, just thought about it while eating some lemon chicken and rice.

[RageWizard]

Yes, when Pinnacle went away. My son helped me hook up a remote access thing through a canadian computer. As a reward, I gave him a couple of grand to wager, and some money management lessons. He made $500 last year mostly fading the old mans picks once he figured out that I was on a stellar losing streak last year. He also has been gambling on the Stock Market for the last 4 years, again with my guidance and money management coaching. This is the type of education that doesn't get taught to anyone in school and is probably why the American society is a consumer based debtor nation.

[mofome]

Yes, when Pinnacle went away. My son helped me hook up a remote access thing through a canadian computer. As a reward, I gave him a couple of grand to wager, and some money management lessons. He made $500 last year mostly fading the old mans picks once he figured out that I was on a stellar losing streak last year. He also has been gambling on the Stock Market for the last 4 years, again with my guidance and money management coaching. This is the type of education that doesn't get taught to anyone in school and is probably why the American society is a consumer based debtor nation.

how old is your boy? i think id consider something similar for my son, but i'd first have to teach myself those money management skills.

[RageWizard]

how old is your boy? i think id consider something similar for my son, but i'd first have to teach myself those money management skills.

He's 16, and money management is the key especially at that young age. He has to learn not to chase loses and tomorrow will be another day. There is no such thing as a can't lose bet, and other stuff that took me about a decade of hard luck to learn.

[mofome]

He's 16, and money management is the key especially at that young age. He has to learn not to chase loses and tomorrow will be another day. There is no such thing as a can't lose bet, and other stuff that took me about a decade of hard luck to learn.

the hardest part of betting is leaving emotion out of it. im not able to do that at this point.

[RageWizard]

the hardest part of betting is leaving emotion out of it. im not able to do that at this point.

Its the same with trading stocks, and is probably the most difficult thing to do. It really fvcks with you if you can't let it go.

[Sportsgirl]

Yes, when Pinnacle went away. My son helped me hook up a remote access thing through a canadian computer. As a reward, I gave him a couple of grand to wager, and some money management lessons. He made $500 last year mostly fading the old mans picks once he figured out that I was on a stellar losing streak last year. He also has been gambling on the Stock Market for the last 4 years, again with my guidance and money management coaching. This is the type of education that doesn't get taught to anyone in school and is probably why the American society is a consumer based debtor nation.

You're smart to teach your child good money management skills and are correct that most parents don't and therefore most kids don't have them. My dad started my IRA when I got my first job at 15 and I've been contributing to it ever since. I am and excellent "saver" because of him and have a reasonable knowledge of stocks and mutual funds. I paid attention to a very smart man - likely the reason I'm the executor of his estate instead of my older brother.

[Willie Bee]

Yes. My daughter is 15. I"ve taught her to play poker, taken her to the track. She can read a program probably better than 1/2 the people there. I've given her money to bet with. It's not a big deal. The key is to "teach" them not throw them out there. Responsible gambling starts early not when the kid's 18 and you say ok go to it son.....

Pretty much was the same for me growing up. When I was in junior high I'd go with my pop to the track sometimes and he'd let me play a couple of $2 ponies during the day. And I grew up playing all sorts of cards, my dad teaching me poker and both of my parents teaching me how to play bridge so that I could fill in at times when they were a hand short for their duplicate tournaments. You can either be proactive or reactive in life, whether you're talking about raising kids or anything else.

[mofome]

Its the same with trading stocks, and is probably the most difficult thing to do. It really fvcks with you if you can't let it go.

ive always had an interest in the stock market, im just lacking the education and the means by which to gain it.

[RageWizard]

ive always had an interest in the stock market, im just lacking the education and the means by which to gain it.

Well your in luck because I'm posting my hard learned method for stock trading. It is really easy and I've only got I lesson left with an addendum on money management, buying and selling techniques for entering and exiting a stock. Just search "Stock Market 101" in this very forum and you could learn alot of stuff that has been experimentally learned (mostly the hard way) by myself for the last twenty years.

[zerocage]

Why not? Everyone needs to gamble lol. Except JJ!