So here we go again...maybe

So I thought I would resurrect my blog. I don't know why, I don't know if anyone reads it and not sure if I care. I just have a lot of random thoughts (ergo the title) and like to vent them from time to time. Funny, sad, dramatic, goofy, whatever. So I guess let's catch up. Ummm let's see - girls had successful dance season and a lovely recital. Waiting to find out if/when (more likely when) Connor's ginormous tonsils will come out. Hmmm..what else? I finally got a diagnosis of secondary hypothyroidism! Boo and yay! What does this mean? It means that my pituitary gland is probably telling my thyroid all the right stuff, but thyroid just says "talk to the hand" and does whatever it wants. Hopefully knowing this and treating all the weird stuff that goes with it will help me get back on track with fatigue and weight and all.

So my thought of the day is this:
Why are we so crippled by the idea of having our children not win? Sometimes you are not the best. Sometimes you are even the worst. Sometimes you are the best. Why can we not teach them to win and lose graciously. Why do children play a whole afternoon of soccer and never score a point? Everyone's a winner! If my child is not great at something, please tell me before people snicker at them, or they can't get proper instruction, maybe they hate what they're doing, there's so many reasons to tell the truth and sometimes the truth is great. Sometimes it's not. Maybe the greater lesson in life is to learn to take criticism, learn to talk about it, do something about it or not, accept it or not, but develop a skin and a coping mechanism. Someday someone important will give you criticism, constructive or not, someday you will win, someday you will lose, someday you will just go home. Learn to deal with it all. Where did all this coddling start? And at what point does it stop?