A great quote from Haim Ginott says, “Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.” If someone tells a child they are the worst at something, they will believe it. If someone tells a child they are the best at something, they will believe it. Using this knowledge, one can see how this can easily become a slippery slope. In many activities for children, the children are given an award just for participating or “trying their hardest”. Not everyone who participates in an activity should get a trophy because a trophy should be something to strive for, it makes children feel entitled, and children that win feel cheated. Not everyone who participates in an activity should get a trophy because a trophy should be something to strive for. According to, KYA football, “Life does not give you a participation job or medal, life makes you earn everything you get.” (Axelson). Furthermore, children …show more content…
In the article, “Losing is good for you” by Ashley Merryman, she says “Having studied recent increases in narcissism and entitlement among college students, she warns that when living rooms are filled with participation trophies, it’s part of a larger cultural message: to succeed, you just have to show up.” Nowadays, children believe that they deserve everything that comes to them. And as described in the previous excerpt, the feeling of entitlement among children has started to spread throughout adults as well. Men’s Journal website says, “Rewarding kids just for participating can have a negative effect resulting in a self-obsessed, irresponsible, and unmotivated generation.” In other words, if children are unable to learn that they don’t deserve everything that they get, they are going to become a, frankly, lazy generation. To summarize, not everyone who participates in an activity should get a trophy because it makes children feel