WHEN EVERYBODY WINS - DOES EVERYONE LOSE?



". . . how would you like it if at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?” -Jacques Plante. Goalie. Montreal Canadians.

I think everyone has now heard of the everyone wins sports tournaments?  And with summer sports and camps approaching, it's a good time to consider the wisdom of the everybody wins ideal.

Now that my son's hockey season has drawn to a close, his league not subscribing to the everybody wins ideal, I realized while watching his last playoff game (they didn't make the finals) how far he has come in terms of dealing with that oh so painful loss of a game.

Keep in mind it's been a good ten year span of time; he played his first game at five, and in between there been many bouts of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; I still cringe with the pain of watching him, as the last shoot out player in a tie game miss the shot … completely – which net was he aiming at anyway!?

However, these years have taught him how to deal with the mixed bag of emotions that come with winning and losing (gracefully) in sports and life.

Would these lessons have been learned as well through the everybody wins a trophy ideal?


 How do you feel, ECE about the everybody wins ideal?

• When do children learn how to lose, if everyone wins?
• Where is the motivation to achieve something extra if no matter how you perform, you win?
• And is there something lost when you win no matter the effort put in?

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