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Originally Posted by ma-skis.com
What about 10 year olds who aren't mature enough to deal with winning and losing highly competitive games. Some kids aren't at that age. A lot of kids quit sports for this reason exactly.
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Kids who are not mature enough will deal with it and grow more mature because of it. If kids quit because they can't handle losing then I'd lay the blame right on the parents. It's just a game and obviously the parents have not spent the proper time teaching them about the nature of sports.
I remember being 7-8 years old and playing street hockey with everyone around the neighborhood and winning was everything. It was the whole point. Sure we played for fun, sure we goofed off - but in the end if we lost then we would just deal with it.
My goal in life is to raise my kids with the same values and knowledge I was raised with. It's too bad I'm in the minority.