How Participation Trophies Are Making Our Kids Soft

[DGUtley]

How Participation Trophies Are Making Our Kids Soft.

“There are no points for second place.” — Those words may fly at elite military institutions like. ,

in moments winning can mean the difference between life and death, but it is not the case in youth sports leagues across America, where kids get points for coming in first, last, and everyplace in-between. A product of the self-esteem movement, parents and coaches today feel obligated to heap praise on children, no matter if they deserve it or not. No matter if they hit a home run or made the error that lost the game for their team. That is, if they even keep score at all.

Studies have shown that rewarding kids just for participating can have a negative impact, producing a self-obsessed, irresponsible, and unmotivated generation of false achievers. At the far end of the spectrum, inflated self-esteem has been found in criminals, junkies, and bullies, which is supposed to have been what the self-esteem movement was trying to steer children away from.

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[waltky]

It's the influence of Democrats...

... it don't matter if ya win or not...

... just that ya played the game.

[testsubjectalpha]

Never even show up and you still get a participation trophy? Rewarding doing nothing builds self esteem, so they say.

Want a trophy, compete and earn it.

[Common]

It makes for no incentive to do better to be a winner, to strive to get better. You dont denigrate those that did their best and didnt win but you dont hail them as heroes for losing either.

Its all this grand wet dream scheme of progressives to change everything weve ever done that made us great to a different way because they "believe" its better because they say so

EVERYONE knows, there are boys and girls and not everyone is a winner. I would be mortified if I lost and they called me up to get a "LOSERS" trophy

[Standing Wolf]

That participation trophies and other awards are a recent phenomenon is a myth.

https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/pa...rld-war-i.html

[Collateral Damage]

That participation trophies and other awards are a recent phenomenon is a myth.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/pa...rld-war-i.html

So because it's not a 'new thing', we should let it continue, along with the detrimental effects?

[DGUtley]

As much as I despised James Harrison, he was a Kent State product and he did take away his kids' participation trophies:

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-awards-earned

[carolina73]

Money is the ultimate trophy. That is why the Socialist teacher's union is so focused on brainwashing kids to believe it is the root of all evil. Nothing says you are valuable like a fat paycheck.