August 25, 2011
Welcome to our GSW 1110-162L Course Blog! I hope you will find this an easy and useful tool during the semester. This blog belongs to all of us, so please be respectfully interactive on by sharing your own posts and commenting on other posts. You will have assignments to post responses to your readings on the blog, and to read and comment on your colleagues response posts. But feel free to post on your own if the mood strikes you! Please share posts that are relevant to what we are doing in the course and what you are working on for the course. I hope you use this as a prewriting, brainstorming, question answering/asking space. And PS–it IS writing!
August 27th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
Greg O’Connor
The article “Children should play,not compete” really spoke to me.I was never really involved with sports as a child and I do believe part of the reason was because of the competitive nature.I’m not saying that little leagues should adopt games of “everyone wins” but I do believe their is a fine line between developing a competitive spirit and just treating children as professionals.It’s physically and emotionally damaging.Children can learn the competitive experience elsewhere.I found it during my theatre auditions where I was trying to beat others (and myself to a certain extent) to get a part.That carried over to the tennis when I was in high school.