Here's how to teach your kids to lose gracefully ... !!!

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Here's how to teach your kids to lose gracefully.!!!

Dr. Michelle Golland: It was the sucker punch heard around the world. University of Oregon football player LeGarrette Blount hit Boise State player Byron Hout last week after their game.

With such examples in the news, how do we teach our kids to be better sports than Blount was?

Teaching our children good sportsmanship is key to their emotional connections with peers. Social and emotional skills are an essential part of navigating school, from preschool and beyond. Being a good sport is not just about never cheating or never trash-talking the other team; it is truly about self-esteem and learning from adversity. Even if your score is not the highest, you can still be a winner

• Want to win but don't hate to lose: Teach your kids that it is healthy to desire to win, but that all athletes have to learn to lose too. Teach them to accept defeat with grace and dignity. It is great to win, and of course it feels good, but glow about your efforts, don't gloat.

• Be your child's role model: Offer praise for your child and encourage all the other kids too, including the opponents. Never berate, tease, or demean any child athlete or referee in front of your child.

• Check out your own agenda about sports: Your child's desire to play sports should come from them, not you. If you have some vision of being the coach but your kid doesn't really enjoy it, you may need to reconsider the activities your child really wants to experience.

• Family game night: Use game nights to instill the fun and joy of game playing, whether you win or lose. Board games, chess, or Wii are quick tools that can help develop the "good sport" muscle in your kids.

• Focus on efforts, not mistakes: Be proud of them for trying their best. Mistakes will happen and games will be lost. Teach your kids to offer praise to the losing team or opponent by shaking the other team's hand or saying "great game" or "that was a good try."

The goal of good sportsmanship is teaching our children the values of a positive attitude, respect for others, leadership, and empathy.

Some of the comments I've read

 

Blount's a shit talker; Hout's a shit talker. It ain't classy, but it's a fact of football.

Players should know better than to talk shit before a game. They should also know not to talk shit to a guy after a bad loss. Everyone should know better than to punch someone over trash talk. And finally if you decide to talk shit to an angry athlete, don't be a pussy and try to turn away. You'd better be prepared to square up.

Blount's punishment is fair. I think Hout got what he deserved.

Obviously you've never played highschool or college football b4! There's shit talkin with every play on the sidelines & on the field clearly, but the refs cant catch all the little yo moma jokes & trash talk off the field & during a pile up on a tackle but when a payer scores a TD and clearly taunts the other team then he gets penalized or punished some how, true the game was over but still he taunted the guy "AND EVERYONE SEEN" so since no one's gonna punish him then POW! Lagarrette did Lmao!

 He deserved to get punched in the face he prob sayed something racist or something i dont think blount be suspended 4 the season he should've been suspended for 3 weeks

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