Sore loser

Usually play a board game with my daughter before bed and I swear I never let her win, she just wins a lot of the time, tonight however I finally won a game and she’s going to bed upset because she didn’t win, she’s 5 years old. Should I let her win games just to keep her happy or let her be sad she lost and learn that she can’t always win?
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My opinion is at her age now is a good time to start teaching her that you win some & you lose some i think it’s a good thing to learn early on!

She can’t always win - you need to have your achievements too 😅👍🏻💕

Probably a good age to start learning about winning and losing , when it comes to school and friends she will be in the same situations when it comes to games and who knows how she may react in those situations too , this way she will learn about winning and losing and managing her emotions

We play lots of board games as a family, initially when we started doing it 2 years ago both my kids were such sore losers. My daughter would cry every time she lost, my son would strop off upstairs and sometimes also angry cry. We continued to play together and reminded them that we play for fun, bonding and memories not to win but also a bit of ambition is good! Now when we play games we can all laugh at each other when someone loses *really* badly, we have so much fun and it brings us so close. Also I am the current undefeated champ in Monopoly, Scrabble, Articulate and Bowling and they actually praise me for it, it's very cute

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