Recently I witnessed on social media a video of a children’s soccer game but a key object was missing, the ball. It was pitiful and the reasoning for it was it made sure every kid go to experience to score or have the quote-unquote ball to make them all feel important. In sports, there is supposed to be winners and losers and they're giving out participation awards to everyone and even the kids that worked hard get the same thing as the kids that were forced to play and this takes the drive to work hard out of the game. These parents modify the art of the game to fit their children's kids needs and they end up never having to face adversity or have to fight back when things get hard. So the question is today are kids sports taken too seriously in America and I believe that is not. Now I’m not saying parents need to overwork these children or get over competitive and make these kids feel ashamed of their parents or hate the sport as they grow older but the actual organization of how the game is played and how the kids are treated needs to be taken seriously. First off, kids are all given participation award no matter how many games they won or lost. Second parents are modifying the rules sport to make …show more content…
In the result, the kids that work hard soon feel there is no reason to work hard if they are going to get the same reward as the kids that don’t even want to be there. This effect causes kids to get a sense of entitlement for a reward which could roll into adulthood. Research from the Washington Post shows "65% of Americans Say Millennials Are 'Entitled, and ' 58% of Millennials Agree".This is a problem when in adulthood because you become reliant on that entitlement and that is having them become unemployed, Pew Research States that more Millennials than any other generation of people. And is it a coincidence that they are the beginning of the participation award