By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com

Donald Trump’s relentless petulance in the wake of his smashing re-election loss as president of the United States brings to mind what we have taught our children.

We teach  them to accept losses with a modicum of dignity and humility. We don’t want them to gloat when they win; nor do we want them to pout when they lose. Society has winners and losers. You win some, you lose some.

When you lose you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, congratulate the person who beat you and then you move on. When we played Little League baseball, we all cheered our opponent in victory and defeat with that quaint cheer when we yelled, “Two, four, six, eight … who do we appreciate?”

Donald Trump has become the Sore Loser in Chief, the antithesis of what we have taught our children, what our own parents have taught us. I have no clue how it was in the Trump household when young Donald was a boy. For all I know he is behaving today precisely the way he was taught to behave by his mother and father.

Which makes me think his folks would be proud of the way he has been undermining the democratic process. How he has endangered us by holding up the transition to a new administration and denying the president-elect access to the intelligence briefings he needs to establish a strategy for protecting Americans.

Well, the good news is out there just ahead of us. It will arrive in about, oh, 46 days when President Joe Biden takes the oath and restores adult behavior to the West Wing of the White House.