Competitive Children

     Children should always play competitive sports. They need to learn to lose before they could possibly learn to win. They can’t go through life thinking they’re going to win at everything they do, and if you think about it, life is a competition. Competition should be introduced as soon as possible. It is in our nature for being competitive. If it’s a new sport or activity, just let them have fun and do their thing, but if it’s a sport that you know they are good at or that they are very passionate about let them be competitive and try to succeed.

     I disagree with this passage for many reasons. They bring up some valid points, but I still do not agree with their statements. I’ve grown up always being competitive. If I don’t win or come close to winning, I usually didn’t have fun. Back to my point life is a competition. If your child is not competitive he will not succeed as soon as others. For example, after graduating college, you need to be competitive to get a job because your opponents are all of your classmates you just graduated with as long as all of the other colleges. You are not applying just for fun, you need to be competitive and want the job you desire.

     In conclusion completion in sports as a child will teach them later on in life that life is a competition.  Therefore raising them like this their whole life that they would know how to lose so that they can become winners down the road.