It is all agreed that the world is changing rapidly. Everyone has to equip themselves in order to compete with others. In this society, competition is unavoidable even is our daily lives. Many people feel that competition is an important part of adult life and so children should be exposed to competitive activities at an early age. To me, I strongly agree that children should be involved in competitions. Competitions benefit children with no harm.
Competitions motivate children to improve themselves. Imagine you were in a one-man island, will you study hard in the island and improve your knowledge? The answer is obviously “no”. If there is no competition is the world, I am sure that every one of us will not work hard. In reality, all of us have to compete with others to gain more benefits, for example, we have to compete with others to gain more benefits. For example, we have to study hard and become more talented to get a well paid job. Once again, children will be motivated by competitive activities and to improve and equip themselves, they will do better or try their best to do better to become the winners in competitions. In a 100-meter race, children will try their very best to run faster to win the game. According to a research conducted by the Hong Kong University, most people run faster in races as they are motivated by other competitors. In short, competitions help children to do better, and to become more skillful by improving themselves.
Children can learn from failures. No one always succeed. The world champion of 110-meter hurdles Liu Xiang also faced a lot of difficulties and failures before his success. In most of the competitions, there is only one winner at the end; does it mean that competitions are only meaningful to the winner? Competitions can provide chances to children to lean from failures. After the failure, children understand their mistakes and weaknesses, so that their weaknesses become guidelines to them to do better in the next time. On the other hand children learn from other people’s successes. They can evaluate themselves and try to learn from others. Day by day, they may learn how to tackle difficulties and failures in their future lives. They will never give up to become better.
Being the champion is not the most important, children can learn through the processes. During the processes of competition, children can learn a lot. In a football competition, children learn how to co-operate with their team members to get better results. In a story sharing competition, children learn to be calm and speak confidently, no matter whether they win or not, children gain benefits from the processes. If children do not participate in competitions, they will miss a lot of useful knowledge that cannot be found and learned from a traditional textbook. Therefore, competitions improve children’s abilities.
In our competitive society, everything is changing quickly and people have to tackle different problems day by day. Competitions will surely improve our abilities no matter how old we are. Involving in competitive activities at an early age means children can learn more from competitions. Last but not least, as children may not be mature enough, parents should encourage their children whenever they fail. Competitions will benefit children with zero harm.