Yes or No, Why?

To a degree..yes. Kids need to strive to do their best. To set goals and do the work it takes to achieve those goals. Team sports teaches them some very important lessons about cooperating with others to achieve a goal as a team, but it's important that every one on the team is doing their best and trying their hardest. Healthy competitions makes them stretch and not become complacent.

I'm not sure that it is good for siblings to be competitive with each other. Maybe some is OK if not carried to the extreme. An example: my siblings and I attended a very small school. The band director also taught music theory. He taught the exact same course to both junior high and high school kids (in separate classes). My younger brother was in the 8th grade and I was a senior. We both were enrolled in music theory. Although I had no musical talent, I worked like the dickens in that class and had a 97 average. I wasn't going to let my little brother do better than me. Had he not been studying the same material, I wouldn't have worked nearly so hard. We did drill each other on some things, so we weren't out for blood.

Children should be taught to cooperate! There are places in life where a competition is useful, but in most cases cooperation is the road to success. A competition uses a single brain to succeed, whereas cooperation makes use of every brain to find success. This world needs more Cooperation, and less competition. Nothing succeeds like success, and a successful operation is usually preceded by the co-operation of all members working together, rather than a competition that challenges each individual member individually.Teach your kids to cooperate and pave the way for their success in life.

Children will be our pride as parents. So if your children have talent or even good in different way, it's good that we parents should encourage and support our children to be competitive. Parents are the support of our children, without our support, children cannot move. But for me, i am always supportive to my children even if they are not in competitive level. There are children also that their talent could not be distinguish unless they have their support.Anyway best support that we can give to our children, support them how to be successful in life and stand in the midst of trials in life.

Hi mawong! You have used the wordencourage but not force,so my answer is yes. In such a competitive world, our children have to face a lot of pressure. They should be competitive so that they can stand out in millions. Have a nice one!

Hi I think parents should teach kids to be competitive in a healthy way without being rude or offensive If they see any offensive behaviour thwy should STOP is straightaway because this means this kind of serious behaviour

I think so. That is life. You need to have a winning attitude to progress in life.

Yes I will encourage my children to competitive in a way to maximize their talents, skills, intelligence so that they can make use of it in a good way. And also that they can build up their self esteem.