SOME PEOPLE DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN TO PARTICIPATE IN GAMES’ SPORTS OR COMPETITIN

In recent times, observations have been made about parents believing in restraining their children from participating in activities, sports and competitions

to keep

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keep

them away from the sense of loosing and allow only to compete where everyone gets a prize.

On the contrary

, some people prepare children from a

younger

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young

age to participate without the fear of losing or winning. In my opinion, for the

first

argument where people don't appreciate the participation without prizes could be out of fear of the child to become depressed or lose its self-confidence. Generally, children tend to undermine themselves after a loss which leads to these conditions.

Also

, peer shamming adds on top of

this

. I

also

believe parents thing it as a waste of time to let children in participating in something where no achievement is given. They would think

this

time could be utilised somewhere productive. I favour parents who irrespective of the consequences, win or lose encourage their children to participate in all activities.

This

allows

child

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children

the child

a child

to explore multiple horizons and choose the field of interest to excel in the future. My inclination towards it

also

dates back to my experiences where I saw many failures in life, and due to my upbringing where I was taught to learn from my mistakes and failures.

This

helped me achieve my goals afterwards. Parents should motivate their offsprings and teach

them failures

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them as failures

not being the end of the road. They should help them learn the art of analysing their failures and find ways to improve on them. To conclude, I believe if children in childhood learn to accept losing, simultaneously learn from it and

then

bounce back, it makes them prepared for the challenges that lie ahead in their life.