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So my 14 yo son is asking to start online sports betting. Apparently a bunch of kids at HCMS are doing it. It’s through “Underdog” sports. My answer has been no as he has serious impulse control issues and I don’t need his dumbass losing my house on some six team parley. 
 

any of you have kids doing this?

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18 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

So my 14 yo son is asking to start online sports betting. Apparently a bunch of kids at HCMS are doing it. It’s through “Underdog” sports. My answer has been no as he has serious impulse control issues and I don’t need his dumbass losing my house on some six team parley. 
 

any of you have kids doing this?

My wife was just telling me about an interview she heard from someone famous, maybe McConaughey, who has a kid that's gotten into this. I think she said that MM set up the account for him or gave him a restricted card. Maybe a Visa Vanilla card would work for this. I don't know, sounds like a horrible idea.  

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19 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

My wife was just telling me about an interview she heard from someone famous, maybe McConaughey, who has a kid that's gotten into this. I think she said that MM set up the account for him or gave him a restricted card. Maybe a Visa Vanilla card would work for this. I don't know, sounds like a horrible idea.  

That’s where my head is at. Just don’t see upside here. I’ll bet in vegas at a book but not sure my 14 yo needs to be worried about teasing down a line and getting over his skis on bets. He’s trying to pitch the math/stats angle. 

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45 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

That’s where my head is at. Just don’t see upside here. I’ll bet in vegas at a book but not sure my 14 yo needs to be worried about teasing down a line and getting over his skis on bets. He’s trying to pitch the math/stats angle. 

I think your gut is right. Giving teens gambling access, in real dollars, is a bad bad idea. Probably a lot of neurological issues there too with a brain that isn't fully developed. No different than drugs, IMO.

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1 hour ago, BrazilHorn said:

That’s where my head is at. Just don’t see upside here. I’ll bet in vegas at a book but not sure my 14 yo needs to be worried about teasing down a line and getting over his skis on bets. He’s trying to pitch the math/stats angle. 

You talking about Hill Country?  If so, another parent in my 'hood said something about this to me earlier this month but I didn't really understand the gist of what he was saying.  

If he wants to pitch the math/stats angle, have him run the book not bet within it.  We had an Italian kid and Polish kid in my high school, both from working class "connected Chicago families", or so they said.  They ran a sportsbook/weed distribution enterprise.  Obviously before the interwebs.  David eventually ran a nice little book from a brick phone and trapper keeper notepad.  Udo's fate went another way.  Couldn't pay winners out, tried to pay in weed.  Eventually somehow graduated and joined the family wholesale business.  He and his father were pinched by the DEA years later in a sting and I think his ass is still in an MSP in downstate Illinois.  

Moral of the story is always bet against the heterosexual in the upcoming Virginia Slims tennis tournament.  And do what those guys did, anybody can find an "alternate" site with a .5-1.0 point differential on the spread or O/U.  Sites like that exist to disrupt lines and play the arbitrage.  But in the olden days, the gospel was whatever was in the Friday edition of USA TODAY.  Everybody in the country could get it, it was the same everywhere, and it was the gold standard for the whole weekend of football action.  It wasn't bar graphs and weather maps that made that paper, it was illegal gambling.  And that story would make for a good english essay for 8th grade. 

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6 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I ran a small, but profitable, bookmaking operation out of my locker in hs.  If he wants to learn about making money in sports gambling, tell him the best way to do that is to be the casino instead of the gambler.

And lessons like THAT, gentlemen, are how you really educate your kids.

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4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

You talking about Hill Country?  If so, another parent in my 'hood said something about this to me earlier this month but I didn't really understand the gist of what he was saying.  

If he wants to pitch the math/stats angle, have him run the book not bet within it.  We had an Italian kid and Polish kid in my high school, both from working class "connected Chicago families", or so they said.  They ran a sportsbook/weed distribution enterprise.  Obviously before the interwebs.  David eventually ran a nice little book from a brick phone and trapper keeper notepad.  Udo's fate went another way.  Couldn't pay winners out, tried to pay in weed.  Eventually somehow graduated and joined the family wholesale business.  He and his father were pinched by the DEA years later in a sting and I think his ass is still in an MSP in downstate Illinois.  

Moral of the story is always bet against the heterosexual in the upcoming Virginia Slims tennis tournament.  And do what those guys did, anybody can find an "alternate" site with a .5-1.0 point differential on the spread or O/U.  Sites like that exist to disrupt lines and play the arbitrage.  But in the olden days, the gospel was whatever was in the Friday edition of USA TODAY.  Everybody in the country could get it, it was the same everywhere, and it was the gold standard for the whole weekend of football action.  It wasn't bar graphs and weather maps that made that paper, it was illegal gambling.  And that story would make for a good english essay for 8th grade. 

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On 10/17/2023 at 9:31 AM, BrazilHorn said:

So my 14 yo son is asking to start online sports betting. Apparently a bunch of kids at HCMS are doing it. It’s through “Underdog” sports. My answer has been no as he has serious impulse control issues and I don’t need his dumbass losing my house on some six team parley. 
 

any of you have kids doing this?

LOL.

My reaction would have absolutely been the same as yours.  Fuck what the other kids are doing. I wouldn't let them do any kind of online gambling, well, except for fantasy football and the (extended) family March Madness pool.

For some reason the straight up online gambling just hits me wrong for a kid. 

"When you're 18, get after it, but until then, no Sir.   But let's say you WERE allowed to place a bet, who do you like in the Fins at the Eagles this weekend?"

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23 minutes ago, slorch said:

LOL.

My reaction would have absolutely been the same as yours.  Fuck what the other kids are doing. I wouldn't let them do any kind of online gambling, well, except for fantasy football and the (extended) family March Madness pool.

For some reason the straight up online gambling just hits me wrong for a kid. 

"When you're 18, get after it, but until then, no Sir.   But let's say you WERE allowed to place a bet, who do you like in the Fins at the Eagles this weekend?"

Arbitrary age is arbitrary. 

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5 minutes ago, next2naus said:

Arbitrary age is arbitrary. 

18 is not that arbitrary is it?  Society as a whole fucking loves 18 as a magic number for accountability/ consent.

 

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Daycare, Take 2 is going much better for our now 16 month-old. We made it about 2 days into the first attempt before feeling like we had to pull him due to seeming staffing and communication issues. He's almost through the first week at his new place and feeling much more at ease. Definitely worth the 3 month delay to feel better about where he's at.

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voting, smoking, and selective service at 18

Driving at 16

Drinking at 21

Arbitrary shit to some degree. I was "able" to drive at lets say 12, but not legally till 15 (hardship) and freely legally till 16. 

Should teems have access across the board to mobile or online betting? nope, but some kids can handle it and its great way to "teach" them many life lessons. Where's my pedo bear?

 

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Re: kids and money. We've been enjoying Greenlight. Prepaid Mastercard, basically. With app move money around and see every transaction. I even set up my 75 yo mom as user, in case she needs a backup card. I have my own child account, to use at shady gas stations so if I get skimmed ain't nothing to steal. The kids can use it for middle school volleyball tickets, online purchases, etc.

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9 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I don’t know if this is backwards, or what, but I’ve never enjoyed being a dad more than I have the past few days, when it’s just her and I.

I also loved the solo dad time in my daughter’s early years. It was different after having two kids and being alone with them. Enjoyable, but different than when it’s just you and your firstborn, and everything about parenthood is still so exhilaratingly new.

I could never do that again, but damn I miss those days.

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I completely relate to the enjoyment of solo dad time. We have a good relationship and everything but so much of the little stressful stuff is around keeping the wife happy with whatever is going on.

 Nice lil punkin you got there. Also good job on the sleep, if that wasn’t a difficult part of solo parenting at ~3 mo.

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I completely relate to the enjoyment of solo dad time. We have a good relationship and everything but so much of the little stressful stuff is around keeping the wife happy with whatever is going on.
 Nice lil punkin you got there. Also good job on the sleep, if that wasn’t a difficult part of solo parenting at ~3 mo.

She sleeps like a champ. I think it’s our cosmic reward for 6 years of battling infertility and then having to go down the surrogacy route. When I picked her up from day care yesterday, the lady said she’s by far the easiest of the babies there. Kid’s just happy 90% of the time and pretty low maintenance so far. Like her old man.

If she just avoids developing her mother’s affinity for lighting money on fire, we’ll be golden.
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19 hours ago, Celery Man said:

If I had a weird little plastic nail for every time my wife bought IKEA furniture, took everything out of the box and dumped the hardware everywhere, and then completed 2 steps before telling me to finish it, I’d be able to put together this fucking baby dresser.

new nickname just dropped for the kiddo

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Son called me to let me know he is coming home from deployment on 20NOV, and will finish his out-processing for the Navy.  He worked in one of the safest environments  out there, but the concern never goes away.  Training accidents and stuff just happen, so you never take things for granted. Ready for him to be stateside and starting the rest of his life.

2.5 weeks to go...  might be tougher on his mother and I than it is on him.  It is during these times I realize why my mom laughed at my dumb ass/ worried about my safety in the Marines.  Circle of life and shit...

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Son was born last week. It's wild with a second kid to just know so much more. Gets along well with daughter and she loves being around him. 2 under 20 months will be interesting but we got this!

Since he's been born Rangers won game 7 of ALCS and World Series. Hoping his luck carries over to the Longhorns...his middle name IS Texas, so fingers crossed.

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3 hours ago, NoName said:

Son was born last week. It's wild with a second kid to just know so much more. Gets along well with daughter and she loves being around him. 2 under 20 months will be interesting but we got this!

Since he's been born Rangers won game 7 of ALCS and World Series. Hoping his luck carries over to the Longhorns...his middle name IS Texas, so fingers crossed.

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He looks Scandinavian.

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10 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

Ours were 22 months apart. It is a beating in the beginning but levels out later. It was nice that they were close enough in age that they enjoyed the same things.

Ours were 18 months apart and same gender, so at some point, they were essentially the same size which made clothes, toys, etc. easy.

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On 11/4/2023 at 7:46 AM, Al_4_ISU said:


She sleeps like a champ. I think it’s our cosmic reward for 6 years of battling infertility and then having to go down the surrogacy route. When I picked her up from day care yesterday, the lady said she’s by far the easiest of the babies there. Kid’s just happy 90% of the time and pretty low maintenance so far. Like her old man.

If she just avoids developing her mother’s affinity for lighting money on fire, we’ll be golden.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but sleeping good at that age is common to be temporarily followed by a regression from 4-6 months, where it gets better again, this time for good.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, my Iowa friend.

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Sleep regression is a bitch, but at least it’s temporary. You get real cocky “oh yeah my kid sleeps like a rock, this shit is cakeeeeeee”

then…

3 months later its 3am and you’re  reading the dumbass book about the zoo (that is somehow run by animals but humans go to the zoo as well) for the 10th straight time because you think it’s the key to getting them down for the night. 

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Son was born last week. It's wild with a second kid to just know so much more. Gets along well with daughter and she loves being around him. 2 under 20 months will be interesting but we got this!
Since he's been born Rangers won game 7 of ALCS and World Series. Hoping his luck carries over to the Longhorns...his middle name IS Texas, so fingers crossed.
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Kid looks just like me. Um....

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J/k Congrats
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