Comments on: Are You A Competitive Parent? Part 3 https://www.graywolfproductions.com/parenting201/are-you-a-competitive-parent-part-3 parenting - beyond the basics Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lynn Dorman, Ph.D. https://www.graywolfproductions.com/parenting201/are-you-a-competitive-parent-part-3#comments/119 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:32:12 +0000 http://www.graywolfproductions.com/parenting201/?p=1210#comment-119 In reply to Julia Neiman.

Hi Julia and thanks.. there is competition and installing a love of sports in one’s kids and then there is the worst of parental competing – and that is NOT really about the kids in nay sense I can think of.

I played competitive sports as did my son, and when I was an attorney I went for a “win” in each case, but I would never attack other people the way some of these people do…

As in most “things human” moderation and thinking ahead tend to be the best course 🙂

Lynn

]]> By: Julia Neiman https://www.graywolfproductions.com/parenting201/are-you-a-competitive-parent-part-3#comments/118 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:21:43 +0000 http://www.graywolfproductions.com/parenting201/?p=1210#comment-118 I think there are a variety of reasons. Some parents are living vicariously through their kids, perhaps because they weren’t able to participate in sports as a child. Or because the parents think they are doing their kids a favor by instilling a competitive spirit in them. Some just because they are projecting their own love of the sport onto the child who in reality may have no interest in that sport or any sports.

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