THANK YOU for bringing this up ... the mindset you are talking about has been one of my all time bugbears. Not only from a parenting perspective but also from a corporate training point of view. The current education system seems to be dominated by a policy that dramatically overplays individual performance and totally undervalues collaborative efforts - e.g. problem solving being one of them. If parents don't work against this mindset at home we end up with highly competitive young adults entering the workforce. Great - so what is the one skill that is almost found in every job description ... "excellent team player". So companies spend millions on putting graduates and employees through training programmes to re-learn how to actually get a long and achieve results in teams (and by then the effort is lost on quite a few). Given that the education system is unlikely to change in a hurry parents play an important role to encourage other ways of problem solving and decision making.
-Stef
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THANK YOU for bringing this
THANK YOU for bringing this up ... the mindset you are talking about has been one of my all time bugbears. Not only from a parenting perspective but also from a corporate training point of view. The current education system seems to be dominated by a policy that dramatically overplays individual performance and totally undervalues collaborative efforts - e.g. problem solving being one of them. If parents don't work against this mindset at home we end up with highly competitive young adults entering the workforce. Great - so what is the one skill that is almost found in every job description ... "excellent team player". So companies spend millions on putting graduates and employees through training programmes to re-learn how to actually get a long and achieve results in teams (and by then the effort is lost on quite a few). Given that the education system is unlikely to change in a hurry parents play an important role to encourage other ways of problem solving and decision making.
-Stef