Some people do not allow their children to participate in games, sports and competitions unless everyone gets a prize. Others think that children must learn to deal with wining and losing in order to be fully prepared for life. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

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Although

protecting children from unfavourable outcomes arising from different forms of physical and intellectual play is a natural instinct, it is

also

equally important that they face

such

situations in order to know how to manage them. In my opinion, it is necessary that a

child

is aware of both a winning and losing situation. On one hand, parents are afraid that that

children

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child

may become upset after losing and throw a tantrum which would be

insconsequential

lacking worth or importance

inconsequential

for the parents.

Morever

in addition

Moreover

, they want to protect them from developing insecurities about themselves where a

child

may lose confidence in themselves. For

intance

an occurrence of something

instance

, if he/she works really hard and loses

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in

a game of chess. The

child

may become depressed and at times may require therapy.

On the other hand

, a

child

needs to be prepared for the corporate world where they will face situations which may or may not be in their favour. In

such

cases, their

behavior

manner of acting or controlling yourself

behaviour

show

depict

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depicts

gratitude when they win and show sportsmanship when they lose.

Such

qualities will need to be inculcated at an early age.

For instance

, allowing children to play in games

such

as cricket and

football which

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football, which

encourages team building and leadership skills results in everyone taking home a prize. The winner

also

gets the

first

prize and the runner up

also

receives a small token as well.

Furthermore

, no one goes home disappointed and parents aren't discouraged from sending their children to

such

activities. To sum up, as parents or

caregivers we

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caregivers, we

want to prevent any harm from affecting our

child

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children

.

However

, we

also

want our children to become functional adults in society who are able to cope with every situation life throws at them; one that goes in their favour and those that does not.