It Does Not Matter...

How competitive are your kids? Adi, for one, is fiercely competitive. He makes a contest of practically anything and everything. The first to finish his food. The first to be born. I don't know how we managed to raise such a kid (though I think my husband can venture an explanation) but lately, we've been trying to teach him that being first, or winning isn't everything.

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We play dominoes, snakes and ladders, and other age-appropriate board games. In all these games, Adi enjoys playing when he wins. When he loses, it's another story. This has led me to use that over-used, corny line which goes: "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it's how you played the game." Or in another version: "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, what's important is that you enjoyed the game."

I guess I've repeated the line often enough that the other day, when I was on the verge of losing in a game of dominoes, Adi stated: "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose..." Then he stopped. I could venture a guess at what he wanted to say after. It was probably: "...what's important is that I win..." (mwa-ha-ha-ha).

[By Angelica Viloria | Thursday, April 11, 2002] [an error occurred while processing this directive]


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