Should Every Kid Get A Trophy?
Congrats! You read this line you now receive a trophy. What? Isn't that how it works now a days? No matter if you do good or bad you still get a prize for “participation”. According to a recent poll more than 80 percent of people say that not every kid should receive a prize for participation. They say that if you win you deserve a trophy but if you just stand there and do nothing that you shouldn't receive one because that's not fair to the people who try their butts off for that trophy. All that's going to teach them is that they can be lazy and that everything is going to be handed to them which is going to really hurt them in the future.
I have experienced this myself when I go to my sister's soccer games
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Also a lot of the comments say that they're not trying to be mean they're just trying to do what's best for there kid. All of these things are going to add up in the future, and it may not seem like a lot now, but just think in the future if your kid is not expected to work hard at their job, and that's going to have them fired, and then they won't have money, and then they’re back to square one, and it's not easy to get out of that cycle.
I mean, it feels good to give all the little kids a trophy, but sometimes if you give a kid a trophy they might even work harder, but there's a small chance that's going to happen. Lets just think about this, if you got the chance to sit at home all day and make millions rather than going to work and making millions which one are you most likely going to do? Former NFL Super Bowl champ Kurt Warner once said “teachers don't let kids pass just for showing up” which I think means a lot because if I could go to school and get all A’s by doing nothing I would never try in