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Kids’ competition: The good, the bad and the ugly
Dr Priscilla J S Selvaraj 10 Mins Read Are you unsure whether competitions are good or bad for your child? Well, in a fiercely competitive world, we certainly can’t do away with competitions. However, what we need is healthy competition.
Competitions – are they good or bad for children? This topic has been debated upon quite hotly on various platforms. While some may argue that competition is definitely healthy, others would stubbornly take the opposite stand as the famous author Alfie Kohn did, in his book, ‘No Contest: The Case Against Competition’. However, most researchers have come up with a neutral stand. For, just as there are two sides to a coin, competition too has its both ‘better’ as well as ‘bitter’ side.So, here’s the good, the bad and the ugly of competition -The good...1. Offers a taste of both success and loss: Those famous lines from the poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling – ‘If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same’, say it all. Participating in competitions enables children to both enjoy success as well as learn to face a loss...
