Why do you deserve to get a trophy just because you showed up some place? Its doesnt make you feel better about yourself. It doesn’t stand for the efforts that you showed. A popular issue today has been about should kids get a participation trophies or not. I believe that you shouldn’t get a trophy because you showed up.
I believe that kids shouldn’t get participation trophies for the following reasons. First of all, they don’t try their best. According to US Today, the children already know that they are going to get a trophy, so they don’t necessarily try their hardest. They don’t really care how they play or help out their team in the event that they are participating in. Also, they need to learn to lose. Not always are you going to win or get a trophy at everything that you do. Life isn’t going to be fair all the time. They need to start learning that at an early age. Children have to learn that they don’t need to be mad at themselves, because they lost (Website #1). The final reason is, that the trophies that they get doesn’t boost their self esteem and make them feel better. “Children don’t need to be getting their self esteem from a trophy that they got for participating in an event,” says Carol Dweck at Stanford University. They should be getting their
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According to US Today, some coaches and parents want the kids to still like the sport, and come back the next year, by just giving them a trophy. However, they don’t need to get a trophy to be able to feel like their skills are good enough, and that they should keep on playing that sport. They should get that feeling from their teammates and coaches. Also according to US Today, some people say that they need to value their kids effort more. In reality, not everyone is going to value your skills or efforts, so you have to learn that the world isn’t perfect, and you have to start learning early (Website