Your kid isn't special and neither is Kung Fu Panda

“I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.” — Bill Hicks

I hope I'm not telling you something you already don't know deep down: Kids aren't special.

They're just like everyone else.

A bit flawed, a tad frail, very naive. The only difference, they are far easier to please.

But I'm not here to take shots at your little cupcake.

Children are the picture of innocence. Children just wanna play, have fun and eat dirt. Laugh at movies about fat pandas. Play with their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They don't know any better.

No, I'm here to trash their parents.

I'm here to let them know that their specific kid isn't special.

Love your kid. Have fun with your kid. Kids are cool.

That's not the problem. The problem is an overly protective society afraid to let their kids fail.

I'm here to trash the idea that kids should always be awarded for just being there. I'm here to trash parents who implant in their kids that no one can tell them what to do.

I'm sick of watching our society celebrate mediocrity, that everyone is a winner and no one is a loser.

Well, I've got some bad news for you: All of us are losers. You, me, Michael Jordan, the New England Patriots, the Royals. (Well, the last one more so than the rest.)

Losing is important. Losing is a valuable lesson.

But we're fostering a society where that's no longer the case. Where everyone gets something. Where everyone is special.

Is it any wonder we have a generation going through a "quarter-life crisis"? It's not that they can't find a job. It's that they can't understand why no one will give them a job. Why no one will give them a chance to move out of their parents house.

You aren't just given anything in this world. But our entitled generation doesn't realize that.

Losing is part of the fabric that defines us. It creates the obstacles that we need to overcome. We need to lose to help form our drive to succeed

Let me to go Conundrum Man on you: If we have nothing to overcome, we overcome nothing.

By handing out participation trophies we are effectively allowing mediocrity to take over.

We shouldn't allow our kids this kind of entitlement. And we shouldn't allow it from Hollywood either.

I'm sick of parents allowing any animated movie a free pass to mega-millions.

I'm sick and tired of a world inundated with talking pandas, fish, turtles, dinosaurs and Billy Ray Cyrus' kid.

See, any movie that's geared for a kid — whether it be an animated comedy or a drama about a wizard — is going to make a lot of money.

A movie like "Kung Fu Panda" is guaranteed money. Slap a G or a PG rating on anything these days, and it's as good as $65 million. Just for showing up, this movie makes money.

Who cares if it's good, it's animated. It's got big stars. It's got jokes for adults.

It's familiar.

IT'S ANIMATED!

Giving money to a movie you've seen 15 times already — regardless of whether this version is good or not — is the movie-going equivalent of the participation trophy.

Adults, we aren't only to blame for this debacle in kids movies. How many romantic comedies have the same exact plot? How many superhero movies? How many movies have we made successful that didn't really deserve it?

Much like our children have to lose, Hollywood has to lose when it craps out the same movie over and over and over and over.

But, kids aren't handing out the participation trophies, they aren't driving themselves to the theaters for "Panda," "Wall-E" or "Hannah Montana."

They're just being marketed too. They're just being compelled by the flashing lights and other screaming kids.

Your kids are caught up in the hype machine. They don't care if a movie is crap. Or a show is crap. Or that Hannah Montana can't sing. Or that the Jonas Brothers are goofy and untalented. Or that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie was an abomination.

That doesn't matter to kids because they are easily entertained.

Which means it's up to the parents to say no.

No to the hype machine that is destroying our culture, no to the celebration of mediocrity, no to crappy movies, no to participation trophies

It will make us a better society. A less entitled generation.

And just might give us better movies — for kids and for adults.