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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now that my boys are getting older and we are carpooling frequently and spending weekends at various games, I am a bit disturbed by how bad the trash talking culture is with kids this young. When the dehumanization of another child is fueled by fierce competitiveness, why do we let it slide? The message our kids take in is that “in order for me to succeed, I need to make that other kid smaller. That’s the only way I’ll get bigger. Better. Be the best.” If a child is competing against other teams, and even his own teammates, why must he diminish them in order to enlarge himself? The attitude I get from most parents of boys is they want their kid to engage so he's not a target or bullied himself and it's just a right of passage but I wonder why? Shouldn't we as parents be encouraging less[b] toxic behaviors[/b]? [/quote] Who says it is toxic? Seriously. [/quote]
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