I read recently that the latest Annenberg Survey shows a rise in the number of youngsters who gamble online. According to the survey, compared to the last figures from a 2008 survey on the same number of kids, the number of college age students overall who gamble online climbed from 4.4% to 16%. There was also an increase in the number of high school age males who take to online gambling. But it was the figures on high school females that caught my eye. In 2008, 9.5% of these kids said that they bet on sport on a monthly basis. Yet, in the last survey, 22% said that did. Astounding, isn’t it?
Signs that your 10 year old is gambling:
- He has painted the numbers 1 – 36 plus a O on the backyard merry go round.
- He posts a line on his 5th grade spelling bee.
- He knows how to convert money lines to must-win percentages.
- The last meal that your family ate at McDonalds was comped.
- He bought himself an iPad – with his own money.
- The Stardust sent him free airline tickets.
- He rolls his baby brother’s blocks and yells “seven come eleven!!!”
- He tries to double down when he plays Go Fish.
