Question:
Does it do harm to kids if you don't teach them how to lose?
Tringle
2013-01-08 12:56:06 UTC
For years now schools and parents have decided to not keep score and give everyone a ribbon. Has this done harm to kids who are now in college and don't know how to deal with losing?

Everyone talks about guns and bullying but how about looking at the way kids are being raised.
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Hob
2013-01-08 12:58:27 UTC
Agreed. Those kids grow up getting praise and rewards for nothing and then get out into the real world and expect that kind of treatment from everyone else. That's a big reason why big daddy government has made so much progress in the last few decades.
2013-01-08 13:01:23 UTC
I think it does a lot of harm. By making everyone a "winner" children don't learn to lose with grace, or even with pride.



Letting children lose brings about many teaching moments such as good sportsmanship, learning to try harder next time and the all important it doesn't matter if you win or lose it's how you play the game.



It's very evident today that many people have never learned what it's like to lose or even be told no.



Having no winner or loser is not real life and give kids a false sense of self.
moline
2016-12-02 12:00:54 UTC
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2013-01-08 13:03:00 UTC
I once attended a weekend Little League Inc coaches and umpires clinic in San Bernardino

When we got down to work on Saturday morning the first thing that their roving instructors -Big Al and Little Al told us was that kids don't care about winning and losing ; kids care about playing ....and it's true

Eventually we will all figure out how to win and lose graciously But childhood is not the time to learn that
2013-01-08 13:06:02 UTC
first step on the way to communism, we are equal.... until someone actual succeeds we end up with many jealous people looking on however i don't see this as the cause for the psychopathy as seen in Connecticut more like the trigger
2013-01-08 13:01:43 UTC
Damn right it's a bad idea. Think the majority of us feel entitled now...just wait until these kids grow up.
Robert T
2013-01-08 15:26:26 UTC
And 'Our" educators don't want to give grades. Ca. schools just received an "F" in failing to educate.
?
2013-01-08 12:58:22 UTC
The GOP is good at teaching kids how to lose.
Jay
2013-01-08 12:57:56 UTC
And this is why we still have conservatives contesting the election. And why we have conservatives saying that, just because they lost, doesn't mean anything.
2013-01-08 12:56:55 UTC
We have proof of that all over.


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