If this is the sort of thing people are worried about and this actually goes to the schools, this generation will be raised a bunch of pussies, you gotta learn that you can't always win, kids need to learn that sometimes you just can't win and they need to live and learn, if you protect them too much, when they get older they'll be a bunch of sissies

#8: - Stupid 

 A bunch of sissies? Really? I believe contests should wait until atleast jr high. It's not all jut up to the parents: you can teach and preach at home as much as possible, but the environment t school and such will have a different affect on them either way. Use as example, all the children who've commuted suicide in the last few years due to bullying. You can express how great your child is, and that some kids are just mean or whatever you want to tell them. But it obviously didn't make all of them feel better when they're still bein put down at school. I guess those kids who's confidence was ruined and took their own lives were a bunch of sissies too huh? Try telling their parents they weren't doing their job as a parent, and it's not the schools responsibility to educate on such matters and that's why they took their own life. See how far that gets you.