Hello, dear readers!
Today, I'm exploring a thought-provoking topic and I'm interested in your insights: Should we encourage our kids to participate in competitions?
On one hand, I believe that a love for competition isn't something you can easily pass on to your children. It's a feeling that comes from within, and it might not be for everyone. However, on the other hand, if we never introduce our kids to the world of competitions or discuss its benefits, they might miss out on a potentially enriching experience.
Competitions can be a great way for children to learn about setting goals, working hard, and dealing with both success and failure. These are valuable life lessons! Yet, there's a chance that the pressure and challenge of competition might not suit every child.
So, here's where I decided to ask community: What do you think about this? Should we encourage our children to take part in competitions, or should we let them discover these opportunities on their own? Is there a balance we can strike between introducing them to competitive environments and respecting their individual interests and personalities? Do you remember your experience?
I'm eager to hear your thoughts and experiences on this topic.
Competitive programming helps kids develop problem solving abilities, it can't hurt to introduce kids to competitive programming, it's a good thing to show them that it exists regardless if they like it or not. Speaking for myself I wish I knew competitions and sites like codeforces existed when I was a little younger
The "individual interests and personalities" of the average zoomer are:
So yes, I believe we must force zoomers to do math/cp.
So yes, I believe we MUST FORCE zoomers to do math/cp.
What if the child doesn't like math/cp? I would choose Encouragement over Forcing.
Jesus Christ, that's an amazing profile bud.
Yes.
One can surmise that the next generation will be in a deplorable servitude of the machines. What seems innocuous today will become pernicious in the future. It is our duty to inculcate and exalt the lofty spirit of competitive programming in the next generation and deter any indolent activities
Is my vocabulary got better that I understood ur pretentious English in one go or are u writing it in simpler English (comparing to earlier comments made by you) ? Whatever feels great to understand ur English (similar to solving 1900 rated problem).
As someone who scored 336 in the GRE as an Indian, I really must point out to anyone who is in awe of the above para, that good writing is not about throwing hard-to-pronounce words around but to convey your message in simple but powerful words. Now if he wrote it in sarcasm then yes its awesome, else...
The thing is, they might end up hating competitive programming if they're forced to do it by their parents, which would be such a shame, as they'd then never realise how rewarding it really is.
It partly depends on how we convey information to them as well. For example, when your kids first encounter competitive programming (CP), engage them with a few interesting questions like, 'Count the number of ways for a snail to go from (1, 1) to (3, 3),' which could introduce them to the amazing world of CP and math.
This is just based on my personal experience. I wasn't into CP before, but after several months of immersing myself in it, I've learned a lot of cool stuff that has strongly captivated my interest more than playing games (as I was addicted to games before that). So, introducing various cool concepts to your kids and seeing if they are interested might be a good approach :)
I believe that parents and relatives have the ability to greatly stimulate a child's intellectual ability and we should use the experiences we had to help our children have a better start in the world (for example, one of the things I remember from my earliest days was that my grandparents once bought a set of cubes with various letters and digits and the games they were showing me greatly helped me to learn how to read and do basic math years before most of the other classmates I had at least)
However I think there is no point in forcing a particular hobby, they should be allowed to explore various things such as arts, sciences, sports, math, programming etc. and be encouraged to excel and outperform in the things they really feel like doing.
In short, we must not live our lives or how we wanted our lives to be through our children.
yes
this question reminds me of the story of the Polgars
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
Who forced their 3 daughters into chess since a young age, and now they are all chess prodigies
watch this
https://youtu.be/Js4NiTFq9Pw?si=G62UWhuH_-GjbAWx
Also details in this ted talk
https://youtu.be/BQ2_BwqcFsc?si=IvrHVaF2xFq9fTXs
cp can quite effectively destroy kids self esteem, so it's not suit for everyone.
so I believe it's sufficient to mentioning there is cp.
She deserves to be born with a clean slate.
absolutely yes i think we can introduce them but the ultimate decision should be taken by them that where they want to see themselves in their future
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I would force my kids to strongly believe in one thing, always have fun and learning new stuff is fun.
An introduction to languages like Scratch or low-level languages like C should be given to a child at an early age. Competitions comes later, whether she or he likes coding or not.