• Sports Day : Competitive Or Non Competitive

    May 20, 2019

    It’s that time of the year when primary and junior schools will be holding their sports day, and as per usual it will bring up the subject of whether they should be competitive or non-competitive. It of course is entirely up to schools how they wish to approach sports day. The school our seven year…

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  • Should We Encourage The Competitive Edge

    February 9, 2018

    We live in a world today that is very much dog eat dog, and in the business, sport or in fact any path we take in our lives, it has a competitive edge to get ahead or finish first, or top of the pile. This is the way the world has evolved. There was a…

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  • Why Don’t We Ever Hear Stories of ‘Dads Who Won the Lottery’?

    January 11, 2018

    When Beverly Doran, a mother of four from Shipley, West Yorkshire, won £14.5 million in a EuroMillions draw in February 2017, it came just when she really needed the money. Ms. Doran, who separated from her husband a short time before, had quit her job in order to care fulltime for her children, two of…

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  • Sports Day: Are You A Competitive Parent? 

    June 2, 2017

    Sports day at your children’s school can bring out the best and worst in parents. Some parents will say it’s all about taking part and trying your best and that’s perfectly fine and ok, but in my humble opinion this doesn’t teach our children a winning mentality and let’s be honest life is very competitive…

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  • Is the Desire to Win, Born or Taught?

    November 18, 2016

    I have often wondered if we teach our children the desire and will to win at sports or academic achievements. Or it is something that we are born to do? Is it part of our character and DNA? Looking back at my own childhood I was never encouraged, let alone taught to be first in…

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  • Teaching our children a winning mentality

    June 4, 2015

    It’s interesting that there two completely different sides to this, on the one side we have some schools that having sports days with winners and I am sure some schools teaching exactly the opposite that on sports day there are no winners just those that take part. Today I suppose it is not politically correct…

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