I want to talk a minute about what I call the Big Fish in the Small Pond syndrome.  I am sure that most of our listeners have heard of this.  Sometimes it can be a cute thing.  Do you notice that babies, no matter how small or young they may be, always want to mother a child smaller or younger than themselves?  I guess it is a natural thing for anyone to want to be the dominant one.  The one in charge.  The one in control.

Sometimes this can be less cute.  When my oldest son was a junior, their basketball team (a team that was not very good, by the way), entered a holiday tournament filled mainly with teams from small private schools.  Early in the tournament our team, which had only won a couple of games all year, played a team that consisted mainly of beginners.  Some of these kids could barely even dribble.  As the game progressed, and our kids got out to a large lead, some of them started to talk trash, and ridicule the other team.  They were acting like they were the best team to ever step on a basketball court, even though a week earlier they were the ones that were being demolished on the court. (more…)