Parents are taking an interest in understanding gambling addiction.
Due to new local school gambling events, multiple
television programs on poker, local news and casinos
parents have decided to educate themselves.
Parents now realize if their teenager develops a compulsive gambling
addiction their future course of action and time
involvement is unknown. This isn’t something that is
here today and gone tomorrow.
Compulsive teenagers with a gambling addiction have one or more of
the following in common:
1.
School grades
drop
2.
Social
development decreases
3.
Low self
esteem
4.
Self
destructive behavior
5.
Asking you
why this happened to them?
6.
Thinking
suicide is the only way out.
7.
Stealing
8.
Pawning
personal possessions
9.
Negative
Attitude
10.
Cutting School
11.
Disappearing
for long periods of time
12.
Blaming the
parent because they gamble too.
13.
Working a
part time job to pay off debts
14.
Stopped after
school activities
15.
Watched poker
tournaments on cable and television
16.
I tried to
stop but I couldn’t
Parents have been forced to educate themselves on the above when
confronted with their teenager’s gambling addiction.
From there they try to find answers instead they have
more questions. They are not looking to point the
finger but really to get help for their child. They
also would like to help prevent another parent from
having to deal with this addiction.
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