Hypersensitivity...

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Parents push their kids to be the best from an insanely young age. I just don't get it.

But that's what I'm talking about. It's not the competition, it's the parental attitude. And that's where this all started. Yes, I agree that pushing competition, and specifically pushing a "win, win, win!" attitude is bad. But I just don't believe that the remedy to that is to remove competition, or redefine competition to "everyone's a winner". I believe the remedy is to encourage personal accomplishment within the framwork of competition with winning and losing being merely part of a set of factors to guage progress and success. I don't suppose our ideal are as far apart as this discussion is making it seem. I don't plan on signing my proginy up for AYSO as soon as they squirt out. I just don't feel a need to put as much stock in actively avoiding competition as you appear to.

And for the record, I hated musical chairs growing up. It's a stupid game. But I think that's mostly because no one seemed to ever be able to agree on a decent set of rules (oh yeah, learning how rules can make order out of chaos, another good lesson to be learned from competition).