Competitive children make me cuckoo  Published: Thursday, August
22, 2013 at 5:02 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, August 22, 2013
at 5:02 p.m.  I have to admit that although I am not a super
competitive person, there is something to be said about healthy
competition. It builds character and teaches us to be humble in
victory and gracious in defeat.  Competition is a mainstay of
sports, unless you count those ridiculous mamby-pamby, everybody
wins kind. I believe it builds character and teaches a valuable
lesson when taught correctly. But there is one kind that I am
not a fan of, and that is over competitiveness between siblings.
Maybe it is because they are growing bored with the endless days
of summer (thank goodness school starts next week), but my
children have developed a nerve-racking habit of making
everything into a competition. Now I know a lot of you are
saying that it is normal for a brother and a sister to squabble
over who sits in the front seat or who eats the last of the
cereal, but these two hav