Two years ago, I played in my first ever basketball championship. We were going up against Evan’s basketball team. The game went back and forth, but our team eventually won. Later I realized we didn’t get a championship trophy, just a participation trophy. I believed this was unfair and needed to be changed. I wanted to be rewarded for our team’s success. I have always been against participation trophies and being babied. My parents taught me from a young age to be competitive but accept failure because that is the way life works. By sugar-coating and praising failure adults are not properly preparing their youth for the unforgiving future that awaits them in their upcoming years. "It's child abuse to give a kid a trophy that he has not earned. If a parent's responsibility is to teach a kid how to deal with the real world, then that is child abuse. Because that's not the real world", says news anchor, Jim Vance. As children grow, so does their eagerness to win. What about the kids who can’t keep up with the competition? Simple. They quit. An article …show more content…
Some kids who are forced to play sports may not try their hardest because they don’t want to be there. Exercise is essential to our youth today, especially because of the growing obesity rate in America. That’s not what I’m here to talk to you about though. It’s not fair to the kids that work hard, try their best, and succeed to get a participation trophy that is the same as the kid who didn’t give a darn. Here’s another quote i found that is from NFL star, James Harrison: “While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do and will encourage them till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until they EARN a real trophy. I’m sorry I’m not sorry for believing that everything in life should be earned and I’m not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their