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Originally Posted by Lilly
With the weather we're having your lucky if you get a sports day.
Sports day has been cancelled this year, as it was last year, at our school.
I know my daughter's class had been practising for it but I don't know exactly what races there were going to be. I won't know now as I won't be seeing it.
I can't understand why some schools will not have winners and losers. 
As has been said, this doesn't relate to the adult world at all.
Children need to be taught to lose, to know that you win some, you lose some and to accept this with good grace.
C'est la vie. |
Good point ... it is important to discover that losses are often merely setbacks ... and unless you are the Canadian hockey team, you can't win every competition (sorry about that
) ... one of my favorite sports heroes is George Chuvalo ... I know, not a household name ... George was the Canadian heavyweight champion who fought, and lost to, all the greats: Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Patterson, .... but in his 98 (I think) fights George was never knocked off his feet, and Ali said of him that he was the toughest man he had ever fought .... losing did not stop him from being a great boxer. And in life too George lost, he lost his kids to drugs and suicide, but it didn't stop him; he took on a new career talking to young people about the dangers of drugs. Now in his 70s George is still going strong. George tried to win every time he entered the ring, but he didn't let losing hold him back