Competition

A little healthy competition helps children to do their best; however, when cheating is involved it subtracts from any positive attributes of the competition. The person cheating (knowing right from wrong) will know he/she cheated and there will be some guilt associated with the winning. A true "winner" will want to win the competition fair and square!

I always discourage my children to practice cheating even in little things that they do everyday. Clean competition should always be observed. Have a nice day!

As someone said, Life is a Race. We are competing even before we are born (I'm talking about fertilization). Well, competition is always a fun if we go through it the right way. The fact that there is always a competition motivates us to develop our skills, abilities, etc. The trick you are using to make your kids eat enough food is good and is very common. We know we all do it. So competition is always beneficial. As far as the ill effects are concerned, I think that competition ethics should also be taught. Once a person faces a competition ethically, there's no chance of him to cheat.

Well, yes, in fact I am aware that children likes to compete with their peers and with adults, trying to be always among the winners. It is a normal thing, I've been through even when I was a child. The defeat, just do not go down, I wanted to be the winner of course! Growing rather then life has taught me that there are more losses to be forfeited, rather than the victories!

Boys and men like to compete. But best to teach them not to cheat when competing. Otherwise it will become a life time habit. Nothing wrong with competing if it is honest and fair and considerate of others. But teach them the right way to compete. And also teach them to play without competing. Boys need to learn to be team players as well as competing.