Teaching Kids Character Through Competition

The Dr. Laura Podcast

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Want to win at the game of parenting? Teach your child how to handle life. That's actually the point of parenting, so if you accomplish it, I'd say you've hit a home run! One of the best ways to help your child learn how to cope with life's ups and downs is through healthy competition. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
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0:14.0	Dr. Laura's deep dive.
0:17.0	Offering new analysis and advice on some of life's more perplexing problems.
0:25.0	Deep Life, marriage, relationships, mental health and more.
0:28.5	Deep Dive.
0:30.0	Dr Laura Laura's Deep Dive Podcast.
0:34.0	Hey, you want to win at the game of parenting?
0:38.0	Teach your child how to handle life.
0:41.0	That's actually the main point of parenting.
0:45.0	So if you accomplish it, I'll say you hit a home run.
0:50.1	One of the best ways to help your child learn how to cope with life's ups and downs is through healthy competition.
0:58.0	Whatever their interest, be it academics, music, art, sports, there's always an opportunity to build character, self-esteem, and develop valuable life skills.
1:10.0	Competing instills a sense of striving and losing can teach them humility and perseverance.
1:19.2	Unfortunately in today's every kid gets a trophy culture competition often takes a back seat to
1:27.1	making sure no one's feelings get hurt. You really should want your kids to
1:32.1	compete and learn to work hard for a goal to play fair to enjoy the process
1:37.7	To celebrate wins and learn something and be gracious from their losses.
1:43.6	You can introduce winning and losing in small ways.
1:48.0	Kids are three and a half or four.
1:49.4	You play small games that go quickly and have winners and
1:53.0	that goes back and forth.
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