  I hesitate to diss urlLink this guy's kids' school right now because I just asked him about his Christmas as below, but in reading through his blog I almost coughed up my frosty beer when urlLink I stumbled on this ! The football (I think he means soccer, he's in the UK) program his 9-year-old is in is redesigning the rules so each team is only partially scored based on the actual goals they scored, and the remainder of the score is based on the amount of goals the coach thinks they should have scored.
It's supposed to be more fair . Right. I'm the person who wouldn't buy my son velcro shoes because I felt it was dumbing down his world too much. What's next? Raise them in padded rooms? Because that's the physical equivalent of this mental coddling. Part of the reason you put your kid in sports is so they'll learn about winning and losing, about better teams from richer districts or worse teams with bad collective genes. In the end, we parents hope it fosters critical thinking skills as well as navigation skills for the adult RW. To be honest, if my kid was having a problem because he lost all the time, I would sooner consider moving him to a better team! 
