I think one of the best lessons that wrestling teaches children is not only how to win gracefully, but to lose gracefully also. Sports teach children discipline and individual sports like wrestling teach children to be responsible for their successes and in turn failures. It also teaches us that sometimes life is not fair. Some children are blessed with some natural abilities that others are not. Some kids work three times as hard just to be average wrestlers. There's no magic formula that says you can beat the lazy kid as long as you work harder. It is a proven fact though that if you work hard, you will get better. Sometimes that's all you can hope for. I've been there myself with my two boys. One of them is just more naturally talented. Everything comes easy for him and the other has to work really hard. You
You can't NOT be happy for the one who is winning just because the other is not but I sometimes still feel guilty. For me the key has been realizing that they are two very different kids with different strengths and weaknesses and that's what makes them special. They are still really young and as they grow and mature, so many things will change.
This problem is an age old problem that no one has solved yet. No easy answer for this.
