Sesame Street Values - (Winning is Secondary) (1 Viewer)

[TenTimes]

If your competing in a hurdle race and your competition falls. You finish the race then see if he is OK after you complete your goal. Which is to win (Would anyone in the Olympics ever stop and do this? Of course not).

That is sportsmanship.

After you win or lose you congratulate your competition. That is sportsmanship.

Not everyone get's a trophy. You gotta earn it. We teach our boys (I coach a highly competitive travel baseball team) win with humility and lose gracefully. No show boating, no hot-dogging and no sore loser antics. Otherwise your gone. You win some you lose some. Act like you have been there before. If you win it all...then celebrate like it's 1999. You earned that right.

Children are not Olympians.

Work on teaching your children correct grammar, the competitiveness part comes naturally.

Oh here come the grammar nazi's. Got to love them on public message boards.

Putz.

I thought it was clever, and it worked

 

[Guest]

Totally agree, which is why I sing to my four year old, to Row Row Row Your Boat every night,

Win win,

Kill if you must,

If you lose you,

You can't come home.

That is how you get,

The hot,

Cheerleader to bone.

Then I finish it off with "#### you, Elmo".

I also routinely make him drag a tire for a mile, followed by rabid pit bulls.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Winning can be secondary in certain contexts, like regular-season MLB games. But not in hot potato! In hot potato, one must win at all costs!

If you let someone make you their ##### in hot potato they own you for life. 80 years later they will be stealing your steamed prunes at the home. Pecking orders once established rarely change. Get rid of that toasty tuber tuit suite or suffer the consequences.

 

[Guest]

Winning can be secondary in certain contexts, like regular-season MLB games. But not in hot potato! In hot potato, one must win at all costs!

If you let someone make you their ##### in hot potato they own you for life. 80 years later they will be stealing your steamed prunes at the home. Pecking orders once established rarely change. Get rid of that toasty tuber tuit suite or suffer the consequences.

Hippies don't remember how the potato famine started anymore.

 

[cstu]

http://static.mybs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/katy-perry-elmo.gif

I wish that shirt was less competitive.

 

[Henry Ford]

Totally agree, which is why I sing to my four year old, to Row Row Row Your Boat every night,

Win win,

Kill if you must,

If you lose you,

You can't come home.

That is how you get,

The hot,

Cheerleader to bone.

Then I finish it off with "#### you, Elmo".

I also routinely make him drag a tire for a mile, followed by rabid pit bulls.

I don't think the audience will believe it. Who do you envision playing the kid?

 

[Guest]

Totally agree, which is why I sing to my four year old, to Row Row Row Your Boat every night,

Win win,

Kill if you must,

If you lose you,

You can't come home.

That is how you get,

The hot,

Cheerleader to bone.

Then I finish it off with "#### you, Elmo".

I also routinely make him drag a tire for a mile, followed by rabid pit bulls.

I don't think the audience will believe it. Who do you envision playing the kid?

Roy Jones Jr.

 

[Lutherman2112]

I've seen two programs over the last week with my son. Both were of Elmo competing in some type of sporting event, one was an Olympics like thing and the other was an all world hot potato match.

Here is what I kind of disagree with:

Elmo has the opportunity to win the Olympics when his competition falls down over a hurdle. He stops, goes back and helps his competition who then goes on to beat Elmo. The premise of this was obviously that sportsmanship is above and all number one.

On the other episode of hot potato, Elmo bothers his friends because he is too competitive after becoming the best at hot potato.

The key take away is that winning is secondary. While I appreciate the thought, winning still takes precedent to me. I want my son and any other potential children I have to be good sports who enjoy playing, but they should strive to be the best at what they do, not just participants. I think it is kinda odd that we are breeding kids with the mentality that being the best isn't as important as just being a participant.

If Sesame Street has more influence over your child even when you watch together, you have no chance.

 

[pantagrapher]

"Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. Winning or losing is all one organic mechanism, from which one extracts what one needs."—Gloria Clemente

 

[Vike Me]

I think a strong secondary is essential for winning.

So yes, winning is secondary.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I bet fantasycurse hates it when the kid with down syndrome gets to score a basket or a TD.

That's where I was going with this. Besides children with Down Syndrome, I also hate the blind and deaf.

 

[SacramentoBob]

I thought this was going to be a hot stock tip from Eminence.