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Join Date: Mar 2006Age: 5Posts: 2,721BodyPoints: 9381Rep Power: 0
wtf....
For the vast majority of children who play these sports, the aspect of greatest value provided is character development. Accepting winning and accepting losing are important parts of life, but the winning or losing, in of itself, has no value. OK, your kid misses a perfect scoring opportunity at the end of the game that would have tied it up. As a parent, what do you say?
You should help your kid learn and grow from these experiences. Especially the negative experiences. That you get better at things by learning from people who are better than you - in sports, that involves playing with, or better yet, playing against, people at a higher skill level. And that you can't win every time - nothing works that way.
Learning these lessons in the context of a GAME, where the ramifications of failure are nil (unless a dumbass parent is somehow involved), is ideal. The score itself will not harm children. The reaction of some parents to the score is what does that.
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Learn and grow from your negative experiences. Learn from those who are better than you.
You won't beat me. It doesn't work that way, but you can hold your head high because you didn't quit and you kept score.
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