Allow kids to Lose?

Great article here: http://theweek.com/article/index/242542/want-to-raise-winners-give-your-kids-a-chance-to-lose.

Our little league culture is changing.  Some no longer keep score.  Some give everyone a trophy just for participating.  I believe this creates a dangerous atmosphere and sets kids up for failure in life.  The hardest thing for a parent is to see their child suffering.  Sometimes its the best thing for them though.  At some point we have to learn how to respond to failure.  Its unrealistic to think we are going to win and succeed at every thing we try in life 100% of the time.  Is it better to delay learning from a loss to later in life or learn the process early?  Our actions will make this choice for our youth. 

In our program we talk early in the preseason about embracing failure and how to deal with it.  We want our players to know we are going to try our best to win every single game we play, but its also unrealistic to think we are going to go undefeated and waltz our way to a championship.  Basketball is a very long season and will have some challenges.  Teams must learn from mistakes, losses and disappointments throughout the season to reach our ultimate goal of maximizing our potential come tournament time.  Every successful team I have been a part of can look back at a loss at some point during the season and say that's where we turned it around.  That's where we handled adversity, came together as a team and turned the corner.

Will you allow your kid to fail?