Be a competitive child. Advantages and disadvantages

Competitiveness helps us to improve ourselves, to improve in certain areas, but only if it is not lived as something obsessive. Therefore, is being a competitive child good or bad? The answer is that it is good in its proper measure, as long as it is not obsessive for the child. It is important to d

Competitiveness helps us to improve ourselves, to improve in certain areas, but only if it is not lived as something obsessive. Therefore, is being a competitive child good or bad? The answer is that it is good in its proper measure, as long as it is not obsessive for the child.

It is important to develop in children the ability to overcome difficulties, overcome themselves, and solve problems, as well as learn from their own mistakes. But you also have to teach them to enjoy what they do, that you can not always win or be the best in everything.

Competitive children: disadvantages

Competitive feelings in children, we can see them clearly in their games and the sports they practice, but also in school tasks (jobs, exams ...) Children who get angry for not winning a game or a career or for not having taken an outstanding, are extremely competitive children, in which this feeling can come to bring problems.

Excessively competitive children evaluate their results in terms of all or nothing, or win or lose, and this can bring serious problems to the child, such as: B -Low self-esteem.

-Stress.

-Low tolerance to frustration.

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Extreme concern for perfection. For example, they need to always get good grades, (a good is not enough for them), or they can reject tasks in which they feel that they will not succeed, and thus avoid failure.Competitive children: advantages

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positive competitiveness is one in which the child assumes that mistakes are not bad, but that they teach us to improve ourselves, and that we should not strive to always win, but to improve and for trying to do things. It is necessary to educate the children in the effort and to enjoy what they do, and not so much in always winning or in being the best in everything. It would be important to develop a positive competitiveness in the child through:

-Compare with yourself and not with others. There will always be someone better than you, but the important thing is to surpass yourself.

-Value the effort and not just the result. F -To encourage attitudes of cooperation and help to others.

-Teach him to

learn from mistakes

, and not to be 'punished' for them. D -To enjoy what they do, regardless of the result. Jimena Ocampo LozanoCollegiate Pedagogue

Expert in Early Care