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Does competition help or hurt young people?
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| Help | 79% | 1117 votes | Total: 1406 votes | |
| Hurt | 21% | 289 votes |
Help
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Created on: March 04, 2009
Too often, we try to shield the brutalities of the world from young people, and in our attempt to save
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Created on: March 22, 2009
Children and Competition.
Competitiveness , whether we are aware of it or not surrounds our everyday lives. -
by Dee Cain
Created on: January 09, 2008
Competition is indeed good for our adolescents. It builds character and prepares them for life. It teaches
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Created on: December 08, 2007 Last Updated: July 14, 2011
Discouraging competition among our young people is discouraging the very best that is America. Discouraging
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Created on: November 17, 2008
Win or lose, it seems everyone these days gets a trophy. There used to a time when kids were allowed
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by Kimberly Ann
Created on: December 13, 2010
Healthy competition can be beneficial to young people. Rather than focusing on the typical “win
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Created on: September 08, 2009
The term adolescence is the first stage of becoming and adult. Once an adolescent reaches adulthood
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by Rachel Black
Created on: April 28, 2009
Life is a competition. From the day you graduate high school, you enter that competition and strive
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by Sean Curtis
Created on: February 12, 2008
Whether we like to admit it or not, life is a competition. We are all striving to get better at something.
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by Jerry Curtis
Created on: December 08, 2007 Last Updated: December 10, 2007
Competition, within reasonable limits, is not only healthy, but vital for a young person's readiness
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by Christine G.
Created on: March 11, 2008
If you ask me how I feel about competition, I will probably tell you that I hate it. But it doesn't
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by Sean Rees
Created on: December 09, 2007
Without exposing children to competition, without educating a child about the importance of success,
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by Zack Hurd
Created on: February 17, 2009
Today's youth do not know how to muddle through failure. The increasing absence of competition in sports
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Created on: December 09, 2007
Goal! Touchdown! Home run! These timeless words echo through the generations. When did they become a
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Created on: February 28, 2009
Does competition help or hurt young people? I believe competition is one of the better things to get
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by John Bogan
Created on: December 08, 2007
Sure there is going to be disappointment in competition, but that does not mean competition hurts children.
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Created on: November 13, 2008
The playing-fields of childhood are about building - building the citizens of tomorrow, building tomorrow's
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Created on: March 29, 2009
As everybody knows, life is all about competition. Just look at this article you're viewing right now.
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Created on: May 14, 2009
Almighty Allah has endowed man with immense abilities, capabilities
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by Chris Cannon
Created on: June 16, 2011 Last Updated: June 18, 2011
Hearing everyone moan about how this world should be politically correct and that everyone is equal,
Hurt
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by Randy Browne
Created on: January 07, 2008
Ancient China has a number of sayings about competition. To name just a few (from memory; not claimed
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by Lateralus
Created on: February 16, 2009
Competition hurts young people for a vast array of reasons. Our parents, teachers and even peers sets
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Created on: May 29, 2009 Last Updated: June 03, 2009
When the question comes about asking if I would support a competition; I find myself not wanting
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by cyberborgz
Created on: March 29, 2009
Competition in large scale helps everyone, but when it is fragmented to different age groups I have
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by Roger Crain
Created on: January 27, 2009 Last Updated: March 05, 2011
Competition fosters an unfair advantage for academically-challenged students. Such students will have
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by G E Barr
Created on: August 22, 2008
THE EXTREME OF AMERICANA
"When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition."
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Created on: December 09, 2007 Last Updated: February 16, 2009
"Why, when ahh wuzzh a boy, I had to fight for everything! I had to work, by golly! Nothing was handed
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by Elle Kamino
Created on: June 15, 2008
A-Parent Success?
We've all been at a table-conversation where every parent is loudly talking over the
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Created on: July 29, 2008
Competition. Where would we be without it? That is a question worthy of serious consideration.
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by Amelia Love
Created on: December 08, 2007 Last Updated: June 16, 2008
One of my favorite childhood stories is of a society that strives to make everyone average. Ballerina
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by Swan Herbert
Created on: December 08, 2007
While it is a course of wisdom to study the contributions of others as well as their approaches used
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Created on: November 26, 2007 Last Updated: March 21, 2009
Competition not only harms the young it harms society.
I recently had to decide between 2 software suppliers. -
by Sana Fatima
Created on: January 21, 2008
The beliefs and views of modern society and the people living in it varies greatly from person to person.
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Created on: December 08, 2007 Last Updated: December 27, 2007
Let's face the facts, competition can be both good and bad. It all depends on the character of an individual
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Created on: December 09, 2007
I take it by the title that competition with others is what is being discussed here. Competition with
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Created on: January 18, 2008
Encouraging children to be competitive so they can deal with the reality of life sends the message that
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by Melba Dagan
Created on: December 08, 2007
Competition is the underlying theme in all school activities, whether academic or athletic. But is this
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