My mum was teaching Alycia and Sherilyn the concept of addition and subtraction through playing cards when Alycia lost the game. She was so upset with losing the game that she cried and wouldn’t accept being a loser, though my mum explained to her that it’s ok to lose.
When I tried to snap a picture of her, she ran away from the camera.
and was really angry with me and with granny for making her lose in the game.
She cried and cried non-stop and couldn’t accept the fact that she had lost. After about half an hour of meltdown, she calmed down a little. I gave her a hug and told her it’s ok to lose. I told her that sometimes she has to lose and sometimes she wins. We then had dinner and she was all smiles again.
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haha..I just finished a round of card games with the kids, and WH lost. He is a bad looser, crying and said why jie jie always win (which is not true) and we took out a bad spot book to show him, he refused to look at the book as he knows he’s exactly like what the book said.
That was such a great and truthful post. Kids are so cute when they poot. 🙂
no kids can accept being a loser. my eldest now, everything wants to win, even wearing pjs, meaning she must be the first to get dress. if she “loose” she will cry.
Isn’t it cute? but I guess that is the nature of kids.
All kids are like that. Same with my two.
Interesting teaching method.
Well, not only small kids like this, even adults also tend to be like this…never wan to be a loser…
my son also same. his principal told me that if the teacher said someone good in study then he will be unhappy, he always feel he is the best. and he don’t want to friend with his classmate. but teacher have tell them there is win & lost, not every time you must win…he seems like cant accept also.
my mum told me I was the same when I was in kindy, I cried because I get No.2 in the class and not No.1…haha:-)
Most children do not want to loose. My children too. So, one day, I showed them a slide on “It’s nice to win but is it really important?” and I guess, I would use this story to remind them every now and then.
Do you want the slides, Shireen? I can email to you if you want. Let me know through email, ok?