{"id":1736,"date":"2011-07-13T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79.170.44.80\/livingwithkids.co.uk\/the-case-for-competitive-sports-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:06:49","slug":"the-case-for-competitive-sports-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/the-case-for-competitive-sports-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case For Competitive Sports In Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  After posting a blog about free sports lessons for kids yesterday, it was interesting to hear from some mums that they think sports classes and lessons are too competitive for kids.   <\/p>\n<p>  I don&rsquo;t know about you but surely the chance to compete is part of the reason why sports are good for kids. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong I&rsquo;m no sports champion in fact I was rubbish at PE. Not only was I the last to be chosen for teams, but also I was completely hopeless at gym, and appalling at athletics.   <\/p>\n<p>  However, even though I never won a medal being a sports loser didn&rsquo;t crush me, or stop me from enjoying sports both as a child and as an adult. So I am bemused at why so many people think participating in competitive sports is such a bad thing.   <\/p>\n<p>  It&rsquo;s a subject that&rsquo;s currently irking me because I&rsquo;ve just come back from a meeting at my daughter&rsquo;s new school where I&rsquo;ve been told there is a non-competitive sports policy. Translated this means during PE there are no winners and no losers and it seems no sporting enthusiasm whatsoever.   <\/p>\n<p>              <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/7\/Sports-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"151\" \/><br \/>     http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dullhunk\/\n<td width=\"15\">&nbsp;     This is reflected in the curriculum where instead of football and baseball and a variety of heart pumping sports there is country dancing. Call me old school but surely as the government are calling for all under 5&rsquo;s to get three hours of exercise a day, schools should be encouraging kids to love sport for what it is. That&rsquo;s the chance to try something sporty, get better at it, compete and maybe even excel at it? <br \/>     Doesn&rsquo;t that in turn help prepare our kids for the real world?&nbsp;           <br \/>  It&rsquo;s a theory backed up in a new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Rush-Why-Need-Love-Race\/dp\/1594630771\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310475474&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Rush: Why You Need To Love The Rat Race <\/a>by Todd Buchholz. Buchholz believes competition is good and patting children on the head without expecting them to achieve is a dangerous way to bring up kids. Embrace competition is his message and I for one whole-heartedly agree.   <\/p>\n<p>  What about you? Are competitive sports in school a good or bad thing?&nbsp;   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are sports at schools too competitive?","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3503],"tags":[2261,74,836],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-family-life-tips","category-parenting-advice-from-parents","tag-competitive","tag-school","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>The Case For Competitive Sports In Schools - KidStart Magazine<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/the-case-for-competitive-sports-in-schools\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Case For Competitive Sports In Schools - 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