Losing is definitely not a bad thing at all. Like you said, it teaches us a lot of things and yes, you are right that teaching kids that there is no winner or loser isn't too healthy either. A couple of months back, I read a great post on how teaching kids that everyone is a winner and that there is no loser or winner makes them more vulnerable to heartaches and depression because when they don't learn to take a loss in a healthy way, they become too used to having it their way and the problem arises when they do go through actual and harsh losses such as heartaches, losing a job, financial struggles and so on. It is then when depression kicks in hard and they often succumb to it. So yeah, teaching kids how to accept a loss happily and use it to move towards a victory is very important. I had this talk with my husband last night too and he understood it. There have been a lot of unhealthy experiences in his life that made his nurture a judgmental attitude towards the word loss, but now he is willing to improve his take on it because he knows his attitude will influence his son in a biased way and he too does not want that.

Thank you so much Jay for stopping by and leaving this beautiful comment. :)