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Contest Mania Committee encourages all parents to read this article to understand the benefits of participating in competitions.
Why youth and kid contests are important and nothing to do with winning? – Top 10 reasons
- Competition teaches us to bring our best effort. It gives us extra motivation to do our best. We pursue excellence when we compete.
- Competition teaches us to manage our nerves. When something is out of our comfort zone or pushes us to perform, it’s normal to feel fluttery within. Competition brings those butterflies out, so we can work on managing them. A trait that we can carry with us in taking exams, interviewing for jobs and giving presentations.
- Competition does not have to be feared. Often kids fear competition, making it into something scarier or more important than it needs to be. When they compete, they realize that it wasn’t so scary after all.
- Competition teaches us to take risks. Once we realize that competition is not a terrifying thing, we can take risks. We can develop our confidence to do things that are hard or uncomfortable.
- Competition helps us with goal setting. While setting goals and making a plan to reach them can be done outside of competition, competition helps provide deadlines and progress checks on our goals.
- Competition teaches us to play by rules. Learning to operate within rules and developing strategies to use those rules to our advantage are great things competition teaches.
- Competition helps us to learn to win and lose with grace. Nobody likes a boastful person, and nobody likes are a pouter. Competition gives us opportunities to cope with feelings of pride and disappointment and to learn to process them in healthy ways.
- Competition can build self-esteem. Self-esteem cannot be handed to kids; they have to earn it. Competition is one-way kids earn self-esteem. When you develop talent and work hard for a result, it feels great. When you fail and learn that can bounce back, you feel more confident in yourself because you understand that you have resilience.
- Competition teaches commitment. There is a saying that says “Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people don’t want to do. That is why they are successful.” Building the habit of commitment is a wonderful by-product of being involved in any competitions.
- Competition gives us another community. When you are part of a team, you are in a network of peers and adults who have interests and values similar to yours. It is always great to have another village in your life or that of your child’s.
We hope to see you all on March 26, Sunday with your children!!