Excellence is punished
What ever happened to being the
best?
Again, when a person or groups of people excel at
what they do, they are punished for it. A school doing away with the honor roll
because it hurt he self esteem of the other students was pretty bad. I always
thought of it as a goal. I never attained that goal, but it didn't stop me from
trying.
But now there is a team of little leaguers that are "too good." All the other teams complained and refused to play, so now they have been withdrawn from the league. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BEING THE BEST? What about training and practicing more so that you could try to beat them next time? What about the time the Bulls won 4 NBA titles in a row? Or the Lakers the following 3? Were they kicked out because they were too good and swept the competition? No.
How can we as parents prepare our kids for real life if we shield them from instances where their feeling "may" be hurt, or the may feel bad for losing? Many kids see that as a challenge to succeed...why rob them of that? What happens then when they are adults and lose, or have their self esteem battered because the project they worked on failed, or the report they wrote was bad?
Kids deserve a childhood. And a childhood includes losing. Didn't YOU all turn out fine? I think that I did...
But now there is a team of little leaguers that are "too good." All the other teams complained and refused to play, so now they have been withdrawn from the league. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BEING THE BEST? What about training and practicing more so that you could try to beat them next time? What about the time the Bulls won 4 NBA titles in a row? Or the Lakers the following 3? Were they kicked out because they were too good and swept the competition? No.
How can we as parents prepare our kids for real life if we shield them from instances where their feeling "may" be hurt, or the may feel bad for losing? Many kids see that as a challenge to succeed...why rob them of that? What happens then when they are adults and lose, or have their self esteem battered because the project they worked on failed, or the report they wrote was bad?
Kids deserve a childhood. And a childhood includes losing. Didn't YOU all turn out fine? I think that I did...
