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It's hard to watch your favorite team lose (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dunno man. We do travel soccer and it’s fun. Soccer is a physical sport and some grit is needed to be successful as you get older. Making sports less competitive is bogus.

I did coach baseball with my other kid for 11 seasons and it’s the same thing there. Participation trophies are killing sports and making it acceptable that it’s okay not to try and succeed. To me it’s a huge disservice to the kids.

Competitive sports isn’t for everyone, and that’s okay. There’s plenty of other hobbies out there for kids to get involved in.

[–] zalgotext 2 points 6 months ago

There's a huge difference between encouraging your kid to be competitive and give it their all, vs. encouraging your kid to be violent and hurt players on the other team to satisfy some weird desire to win at all costs though. The comment you replied to was talking about the latter.