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Helping a child lose

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5amclub5 · 10/11/2024 10:58

My DS is 6 and is a terrible loser. He plays on a grass roots football team, and he’s good, but he gets very upset if his team are losing. He starts sobbing, will stop playing and refuse to join back in. He is very competitive by nature and has a short fuse naturally so it’s not surprising, but I’m finding it so hard to help him cope. I often do role play with his teddies, where they’ll race or play a football match and one will lose, I model gracious losing, we’ve read lots of feelings books (he has big feelings anyway).

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GrumpyCactus · 10/11/2024 11:00

If you're doing all the right things like role playing, talking through scenarios, reading book and modelling the situation and yet he is still acting like this then honestly I'd say the next logical consequence is he can't take part in the football games.

TeenToTwenties · 10/11/2024 11:01

Games like pop up pirates where if you lose there is a positive payoff and you get lots of goes?

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