Joe Rogan and Mike Baker on the importance of kids learning healthy competition.
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Too many parents talk a whole lot of bullshit but lets be real here. Give it to them straight or else your kid will have an issue
these things are good learning lessons. I can relay an experience. I was better than people playing soccer in hs. played varsity as a sophomore. then my junior year we got a new coach and he cut me and all but one of the other football players. another kid a year ahead of me got cut after two years on varsity. life isn't fair and some times even if you are better you still lose due to politics. that's just how life goes some times. suck it up and move on.
It’s fine to teach your kid about the reality of life which is that it is full of competition and people that don’t give a shit where your life is headed. However, I think it can be dangerous to tell your kid that they should be doing better. One has to remember that a child is in a highly exploratory phase and maybe they just aren’t genetically cut out to be the star athlete, maybe they don’t even want to be. Maybe the current activity isn’t right for them. Maybe they are more inclined to solo sports like skateboarding or skiing over team sports. Maybe they are more in tune with making music, writing, painting, math, etc. If a child has a passion for one activity then by all means you can push them (or more importantly teach them to want to push themselves rather than you cracking the whip) but if a child doesn’t seem to be putting their all into what they are doing or getting overly discouraged with their performance; then perhaps they just need to try something else that resonants with them more and that their natural abilities better align with. Some of the early low self esteem can come from trying to match peers in ways that you aren’t going to match rather than find the abilities that you can outclass them in. So teach your kids competition but don’t pigeon hole them and make them try to achieve a level of success in an activity that may have not been right for them to begin with.
This guest is pretentious and annoying
That's why we play games genius.