Unless you live in a cave without TV, radio, and a cell phone, you know all about the Packers/ Seahawks game on Monday night and the botched call heard round the world.  I get it, I really do.  It stinks when you try your best, do the right thing, and get penalized for it anyway.

It’s not fair.  It’s about 180 degrees from fair.  And we got to hear all about how unfair it was from anyone who had any kind of a public forum – everyone from radio and tv hosts to average folks with Twitter and Facebook accounts were talking about it.  Heck, they’re STILL talking about it.

But what no one has been talking about is the life lesson that could have been taught to the young people watching.  See, I have an eight year old son who is figuring out the very important lesson that sometimes life isn’t fair.  It’s a lesson that is not a lot of fun to learn. In fact it pretty much sucks.  But it is my job as his parent to help him navigate through learning this lesson and also help him decide how he is going to react to it.

See, this is a lesson that doesn’t ever really go away.  there will be all kinds of situations in life where things aren’t fair and you don’t get what you deserve.  Whether you apply for a job and don’t get it because someone else less qualified has the “right connections” or you buy a product and it stops working right after the warranty expires or the company you work for has a dip in sales and has to lay off people, you are going to face times when life just isn’t fair and you have no control over it.

So here’s the part I have been trying to teach my kid – you may have no control over the unfair thing that happens to you, but you do have control over how you react to it.

Let me say that again, just for emphasis: You do have control over how you react to it.

Unfortunately, several of the Packers felt that it was appropriate to voice their displeasure at the call that was made, either in person or via social media, using rather inappropriate language.