I personally don’t think competition is healthy for young children. It teaches children to turn against each other rather than cooperating with one another to reach a similar goal. The studies mentioned in the article talk about how competition distracts children from actually doing their best or focusing on task at hand. It also discusses the difference between competition and cooperation in a team like setting and how working together brings the children together where as making children work against each other will make them have a common enemy, and once again they’re forced to fight against the other teams and one team is forced to be the loser and the other team the winner. Competition teaches them that someone always loses, and that they should strive to not be considered the “loser”. Because of competition, victory is seen as something that a child must achieve in order to successful, therefore children get their self worth depending on whether they succeed in competitions or not. With competition, each child becomes an obstacle to each other in order to reach success or happiness. I think competition should be understood by children but not necessarily forced onto children like it is in this day and age. I don’t really think I would ever encourage my children to be competitive. I’d rather just teach them about competition but let them know that regardless of if someone or their team says they win or lose, they’re always be winning because they’re trying and playing the sport or doing the activity the best of their abilities.