Raising children to be competitive or cooperative?

There are two ways the parents can raise their own children to make them successful in their future life and set their own place in the society. The two ways are competition and co-operation. In my opinion, raising the children in a co-operative way is better, but competition is also needed.

First I will begin with the arguments which are with the competition’s way. The first argument is that encouraging children to be competitive is good because they need it to get higher marks in school and get a good job and promotion in the future. Another argument is that our country needs leaders who must be competitive to lead us onwards. Some jobs need creative and competitive people especially in industrial companies and these companies are always in competition. Yet another argument is that in areas like sports competitiveness is normal and healthy and without it there is no joy in sports.

Now I will talk about the reasons why I prefer raising children in a co-operative way. The first reason is that in the real world, at school and afterwords, people need to co-operate with others; especially teamwork is very important in many jobs these days. Yet another reason is that teaching children to co-operate with others will make them be helpful and will increase their self-esteem.

In conclusion, although I prefer the children to be raised in a co-operative way I would add that competition is needed also. This is because when people can be competitive and co-operative at the same time they will have a very successful life.

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