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Parent’s Guide to Prediction Markets
How families can keep kids off financial exchanges built for users 18 and older.
Free PDF · 12 pages · Includes a parent checklist
FALL 2026 EDITIONParent’s Guide To
Prediction Markets
How families can keep kids off financial exchanges built for users 18 and older.
- Understand the Risks
- Recognize the Signs
- Take Action at Home
Video overview
What prediction markets are, and how to keep kids safe.
A short overview of what prediction markets are, how kids come across them, and the practical steps families can take at home to keep them off these platforms.
Chapters
What’s inside
Three parts. One clear boundary: prediction markets are for users 18 and older.
Understand the risks, recognize the signs, and take action at home. You don’t need to be an expert. Start the conversation.
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- Event contracts
- How prices and payouts work
- CFTC plain-language guide
- Financial exchanges for users 18+
- Where kids see them
- “It’s only $5”
- Regulated vs. unregistered
- Money at stake
- Notifications
- FOMO
- Endless events
- 18+ requirements
- Varies by state
- Responsible trading protections
- A parent’s account or device
- Social media
- Sports talk
- News: “35% chance”
- Online & devices
- Conversations & emotions
- Money
- Conversation starters
- Prediction or fact?
- What am I not seeing?
- What happens if I lose?
- Today
- This week & ongoing
- Printable
Parent checklist
A few simple steps to keep financial exchanges out of reach.
You don’t need to do everything at once. Start with today, then keep checking in.
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TODAY
THIS WEEK & ONGOING
A letter from our founder
“Let me be clear about where Parent ProTech stands: kids should not be on prediction markets.”
Whether you follow financial news or watch Sunday night football, you’ve likely seen ads or headlines about prediction markets like Kalshi. As the industry grows, we created this guide to show you what your kids may be seeing, explain it in plain language, and give you practical steps to keep them off these platforms.
So read the guide. Use the checklist. Have the conversation, even if it feels early. Then pass it along to another parent, teacher, or coach. That’s how we protect kids: one conversation at a time.
Brock Murphy
Co-Founder & CEO, Parent ProTech
FAQ’s
Questions parents are asking.
Yes. The guide and overview video are free for every family, school, and community organization.
Kalshi is built for users 18 and older and wants it to stay that way. Rather than look the other way, they chose to help parents set boundaries and keep kids off prediction markets from the start.
No. Parent ProTech has sole editorial control over all educational content. Founding Supporters may only flag objectively verifiable factual errors about their own platform.
No. This guide is not an endorsement of Kalshi or any other prediction market. It is an effort to put more resources into the hands of families. Our position is simple: kids should not be on prediction markets.
No tool is foolproof. The guide shows how to layer protections, secure your own accounts, and stay involved, which makes access much harder.
Never. We don’t share parent, student, or school information with Founding Supporters, and there are no third-party tracking pixels on this page.
Founding Supporter
Kalshi is built for users 18 and older, and wants it to stay that way.
This guide was made possible in part through the support of Kalshi, a Founding Supporter of Parent ProTech’s efforts to help families understand prediction markets, digital literacy, and online safety. Kalshi had no editorial input into or control over the educational content. This support is not an endorsement by Parent ProTech of Kalshi, its products, or prediction-market trading, and no school or organization distributing these materials endorses any platform.
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