Everyone is a Winner.

Give me a break.

In today's society, I have heard asinine tales of parents removing winning and losing from Little League baseball because it "hurt their children's self esteem."

Give me a break.

Winning and losing is a part of life. Competitive sports helps teach kids how to deal with winning and losing in a mature manner and if parents can't teach their kids how to place nice and still win and lose, then they aren't very good parents.

Children first of all, are susceptible to loss. Everyone has seen a five year old cry when he loses a game. Its a part of maturity. The five year old cries because he didn't want to lose and doesn't know how to handle it. If a parent removes losing from games, where will the child learn how to handle losing? Out in the real world where losing can often mean financial disaster or worse? Is he going to cry when he's 26 and got turned down for a job position? Sports need to have competition and parents need to teach their children how to lose. Bruce Wayne's father asked him in Batman Begins, "Why do we fall Bruce?" and Bruce would answer, "So we can learn to get up again." Parents need to stop coddling their kids and teach them about loss. Loss is a part of life and children will have to mature in order to learn to deal with it properly.

Children are also often bad winners. Winning often leads to bullying when the winning team taunts the losing team and mocks them. However, again, this is a fault of parenting, not a fault of competition. The parents need to be there and not jeer along with their kids but scold them and teach them to treat their opponents with respect, whether they are winning or losing. Letting children win gives children an opportunity to boost their own self esteem and at the same time gives parents an opportunity to teach their children to win fairly and respectfully.

Competition is not a bad thing as some terrible parents claim that it is. It gives children lessons about winning and losing and maturity that they will need when they leave the house in 15-18 years.

So please, cut out the bull**** and let the kids win and lose in Little League.

In other news, Palin is a bear-hating, creationist douche.

J Kuhl Signing Off