Competition is the basis of any comparison, the push to assert itself, an irrepressible instinct, but which must be well dosed and controlled
The desire to be assertedto excel, is it just a natural desire? We really believe yes. The desire, indeed the need to take on a role within society, pushes all the animals of the pack to the comparison and the choice of qualities suitable to take on a suitable role in the society of the equal. Suitable does not necessarily mean above the others; indeed we can say that in our society There is no absolute above: There is a sufficient amount of roles to allow, perhaps not everyone, but in principle, yes, a life that makes sense.
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The push is however to be asserted and thecompetitiveness is the basis of comparison: It is irrepressible, but it must be known, controlled, even sublimated. Even from the defeats you learn, the defeats give the measure of oneself; But defeat and victory have, as necessary, thecommitment and comparison. The little one learns to confront the game; Sport for children is a rittered game. As always, it may happen that the competitive thrust exacerbally the boy’s commitment, up to push him to depression, to isolation, to abandonment, if ambition and his opposite, frustration, are too hard to support.
The team sports Save a little (but only a little, there is always the need for recognition, of a place on the pitch, not to stay too much on the bench) from these breaks of balance. Parents must accept but do not exasperate competitiveness; If they do the fans, they have to do it with joy, and they must know how to support and guide the child in the difficulties that from agricultural, success and failure derive, not differently from what they do for school difficulties. In sport, as in school, as in life, thebalance is essentialto the winners as to the losers.
