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The Progressive movement What’s wrong with winning? I keep hearing from everywhere how young kids should learn to play games, but avoid keeping score. To me the whole idea of learning to play a game is to learn to win and also to learn to accept losing now and then, it’s just part of growing up. How do you prepare someone for the real world if they have never won at anything? I really don’t know who they’re trying to fool with this, because ask my grandson who won the soccer game and he’ll tell to the point what the score was. To me this is about as stupid as it can get. What are we raising, a generation of losers instead of champions. I have never seen a loser on a box of wheaties? Am I wrong or hasn’t always been the goal of parents to prepare their children for life, liberty and happiness?

I’m sorry if I offend anyone, but we have let a few self-promoting, so-called child psychologists possibly ruin a whole generation of great kids. It started with Dr. Benjamin Spock in the 60’s, and has spread throughout the education system. I do not advocate child beating or any type of child abuse, but a child who throws a tantrum, needs to be punished and a quick smack on the hynie never hurt any ones psyche. It may have caused some embarrassment, but I bet they thought twice about doing it again. Parents have become afraid of their children; you seldom see them chastise them when they are misbehaving in a public place. I have seen little girls go completely out of control in a mall, while their mothers just sit and wait for their tantrum to end. My folks would have boxed my ears in if I ever showed that type of disrespect.

When I pick up a magazine and read how a child psychiatrist or psychologist is advocating not keeping score in a game or not giving anyone a failing grade because it will effect their self confidence, it makes me want to shout. What gave these people the right to destroy the very fiber of American life? We are winners, we always have been and hopefully always will be. Teaching kids that it’s okay to lose offers no incentive for them to succeed in what ever they choose to do. Is that what has happened to our glorious Legislators? Were they taught that there should be no reward for winning? I can hear it now, don’t worry son, if you get into trouble someone will be there to bail you out. It is so sad to think that some of my greatest memories, football or baseball games that were won with an outstanding play, will possibly never be in my great grandsons future. Will he be taught that no matter what, someone will be there to take care of him, instead of conditioning him to be self-sufficient.

What will be next, will they decide for him that fishing or hunting is cruel, and not to be practiced? Will he even have the right to own a gun for his own protection, as he grows older? How will he even know right from wrong, if he is never allowed to fail or win? Now I’m not really worried about my great grandson, actually he’ll do just fine, his parents are well centered, and will give him the proper direction in his life to succeed. It’s the other kids I really worry about, the ones that will have to look life eyeball to eyeball someday, and really will have no idea what’s in store for them.

And that’s my opinion,
Don

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