This topic has been under debate for quite some time now. There are many people who would say that giving kids participation trophies is a great way to keep them motivated and interested in sports. These people think that by rewarding kids just for showing up will in the future allow them to have the passion and motivation to be successful, but in reality “participation trophies can stunt our children’s internal motivation” (“K2 Awards and Apparel “).
Kids today are entitled, thinking that everything should just be handed to them. I’m not saying that participation trophies are the cause of this but they sure aren’t helping with the situation. “The feeling of losing and moving on are particular skills children need to develop in order to deal with negative experiences in life when they become older”(Anne Steinhoff, 2016). If kids aren’t taught that losing is a part of life they will never be able to develop the skills are logical thinking of how to overcome these loses and what needs to be done to prevent it from happening again.
When kids are always handed things in life and never have to work for them they aren’t learning any valuable life lessons. Learning what it actually takes to be a winner and the hard work that you have to put in would be more beneficial towards their development. Teaching kids how to take a loss and that its not the end of the world should be what we are trying to teach our kids, not that they are going to be winners all the time.
Citations:
Are Participation Trophies Good Or Bad? (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.k2awards.com/informationcenter/resources/participation-trophy-debate
N. (2016, August 23). Why Winning and Losing Is Important for Children. Retrieved from https://novakdjokovicfoundation.org/winning-losing-important-children/
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