Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Youth

In a message dated 10/30/02 2:22:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, reshan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> What on earth is wrong with riding for its own sake?
> Do you believe that only people who compete work hard at perfecting their 
> riding skills?
> Is *that* a good thing to teach a kid--that being good at something for the 
> pure joy of it doesn't count, unless they can enter a competition?
> One does not have to be training for some specific end in order to 
> thoroughly enjoy an activity and be devoted to it.
> Or for that matter, playing games of various sorts with one's friends 
> *without* some damned organized league and point standings and all that rot?
> Whatever happened to just being a kid?
>                           --CMNewell


I have just one thing to say to that.  I never said that children have to compete if they are interested in something.  I said that children should be able to compete if they choose when they are interested in something!

Ginger