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Originally posted by Riddil
(oh, and OT, I also discourage some parents instilling the idea that losing is OK. They preach, "if you happen to win, great! If not... *shrug*." We're breeding a nation of losers... children who aren't willing to work for their goals because they've learned, "Hey, it's ok if I fail all the time! Pass the bong!" But that's a discussion for another thread.)
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I think that the main thing is to teach children to lose and not think it's the end of the world, or to win and think that it's everything. I *really* don't think that suddenly a child is going to become some kind of loser drug addict if a parent tells them that its ok to lose.
I also think it's important to teach that it's ok to lose in
SOME things and not take it
TOO hard, and to maybe try another way to achieve that goal in order to win.