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10-08-2011, 10:41 AM
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Spoons
Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Lethbridge, Alberta Posts: 7,068 Do the kids ever play an unorganized pickup game of any kind? Say, a baseball game in the schoolyard at lunch, or a weekend afternoon football game in the park? What do they do then? As I recall my own childhood, we always kept score in such games. Not that it really mattered--teams would change from day to day as the day's captains would select from the available pool of kids who showed up. But it never occurred to us not to keep score. Certainly in the organized sports I participated in during my childhood, scores were kept. Somebody won and somebody lost. We all wanted to play like the pros we watched on TV did, and that included keeping score. I think we would have refused to play if the adults told us that scores would not be kept, as to us, it would have been pointless. To more directly address the OP's question, I think scores should be kept at any age. But I don't think it should be for any reason related to "fostering the competitiveness that will be needed as an adult." Rather, I think it's because keeping score is a part of the game. If you're not keeping score, you're not playing the game. Good question: What do the organizing adults tell the kids who want to keep score? | ||
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10-08-2011, 10:44 AM
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Peremensoe
Guest Join Date: Apr 2010 If you're not keeping score, you're not really playing a game, you're just having a practice or workout. Scorekeeping should begin the very first time the kids face an opposing team. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last edited by Peremensoe; 10-16-2010 at 02:45 PM. | ||
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10-08-2011, 10:54 AM
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Diogenes the Cynic BANNED Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 58,797 We can already see it. It's part of a coddling culture that's resulting in kids still living in their parents' houses at 30, having a ridiculous sense of entitlement from being rewarded for nothing all their lives and having no preparation for life away from mommy. Not keeping score is how you create misfit, maladapted nerds who dress up like pandas and have "girlfriends" they only ever talk to on the internet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last edited by Diogenes the Cynic; 10-16-2010 at 07:51 PM. ---------------------------------- This guy knows some of you personally that are against a leaderboard. | ||
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10-08-2011, 10:56 AM
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Diogenes the Cynic
BANNED Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: St. Paul, MN Posts: 58,797 They don't have to play sports to be competitive in either ways (and to learn from losing and failure. The best thing that sports does is teach kids how to learn from failure). ----------------------------------------------------------- Learn from your failures bros. | ||
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