Primary Schoolers Learning To Lose
Primary Schoolers Learning To Lose
- Losing is hard. Everyone wants to win.
- Losing again and again is hard on children's self esteem.
- Children should feel
successful even if they haven't won. This can be done by:
- playing down the need to win
- noticing when they are getting better at something
- being a 'good sport' ourselves
- commenting on effort rather than results
- encouraging team like behaviour
- catching children doing something right
- showing children easy to learn skills, one at a time
- giving children time to practice
- being light hearted about winning
- reminding children how much they've learnt since last month/season
- helping children find different activities if they don't like the sport they are doing.
- achieving their own goals - such as practising a skill that has been learned or achieving one more goal than last week.
- If a child feels bad
about losing:
- show that you understand their feelings
- help them find something positive in the situation, eg 'You ran really well'
- give encouragement for the next time
- help them practice games where winning and losing doesn't matter like catching the ball
- take the pressure off and find something fun to do
- tell them you love them whether they win or lose
- think of lots of different ways to practice a skill.
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