People are giving to many trophies to children. There now participation trophies for everything, only mildly ridiculous. I understand why they do it, giving them self confidence. Doing it in moderation is fine, but doing too much leads to side effects. Like lowered self confidence later in life, teaching them that losing is bad and should never happen, and it can develop narcissistic traits.
Participation trophies makes it worse when they fail. Society is teaching children