They wanted to play the game for fun and camaraderie, not to “slaughter the other team,” (para.7). Nowadays, every kid has been taught that you must be the best and it has made them into little machines. When I was a young child, my father always told me that knowledge is power and that I needed to always strive for greatness. This turned me into a competitive thinker, always looking for ways to be the greatest at everything I pursued. But it also made me socially awkward because I did not know how to make friends. I just wanted to be the best, friends or not. Strick’s son was picked on by other children for not being excellent at soccer. Strick states, “I overheard a ten-year old boy sneer the other day, ‘He doesn’t know a goal kick from a head shot,” (para.7). This bullying should not be part of everyday life, but sadly this is not the case. Bullying is becoming more prevalent in the younger generation than ever before and this is because we are teaching our children to judge based on the skill of a person rather than their personality and character. Competition seems to invade even the most simplest of tasks in today’s
They wanted to play the game for fun and camaraderie, not to “slaughter the other team,” (para.7). Nowadays, every kid has been taught that you must be the best and it has made them into little machines. When I was a young child, my father always told me that knowledge is power and that I needed to always strive for greatness. This turned me into a competitive thinker, always looking for ways to be the greatest at everything I pursued. But it also made me socially awkward because I did not know how to make friends. I just wanted to be the best, friends or not. Strick’s son was picked on by other children for not being excellent at soccer. Strick states, “I overheard a ten-year old boy sneer the other day, ‘He doesn’t know a goal kick from a head shot,” (para.7). This bullying should not be part of everyday life, but sadly this is not the case. Bullying is becoming more prevalent in the younger generation than ever before and this is because we are teaching our children to judge based on the skill of a person rather than their personality and character. Competition seems to invade even the most simplest of tasks in today’s