An Elon English 110 Project
If everyone’s a winner, is anyone really a winner? Participation trophies tells children that you get rewarded for doing things to the best of your ability, even though your best isn’t always enough in society. There have been many studies showing that kids get used to being pampered and will begin to expect to be […]
Read More →http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/races-sports/how-participation-trophies-are-making-our-kids-soft-20150725 This article talks about how rewarding kids just for participating can have a negative impact, producing a self-obsessed, irresponsible, and unmotivated generation of false achievers. It also claims that parents are part of the problem. http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/17/health/participation-trophies-parenting-debate/ In this article, it discusses the big debate that talks about if sports participation deserves a […]
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You win some and you lose some. Everyone knows that there is a first, second and third place in any competition. Losing is a part of life and is a skill that kids today are not learning or experiencing. Everyone must learn how to deal with losing and it is something that you cannot teach […]
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The prominence of youth sports in the United States has proven to have an effect on the way that children have been treated. In youth sports, it is a common act to reward children with a trophy even when they don’t place in first, and therefore, they would be rewarded with a participation trophy. Too […]
Read More →My life as an athlete started when I was four years old with the fall soccer season of 2002. Shortly after my first three months as a youth athlete I had another two skills under my belt. My first tri-season athletic year followed soccer with basketball in the winter, which then concluded with baseball in […]
Read More →Many believe that acknowledging a child’s participation with an award is a good thing, but not necessarily realistic. Typically, giving children a trophy isn’t representative of them making it to all the practices and games or giving effort or improving, but rewarding them for having a parent capable of registering them. However, I believe […]
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