An Essay On Trophie Failure And Loss

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty.” A quote from Theodore Roosevelt that is not getting installed into the youth of this and last generation’s minds. Participation trophies demolished this belief and many others. We need to completely demolish the “everybody gets a trophy” idea. It has demoralized awards, neglected to teach children about failure and loss, abused their self-esteem, and not ready them for life ahead.

Trophies. A universal sign of “congratulations you worked hard towards your goal,” or, at least, it used to be. Trophies used to be something rare, something you received because it was earned through hard work and practice, made from gold with your name personalized on it. (Merryman) Now, …show more content…
If you constantly praise a child and give them a trophy for standing, they will not be ready for what is ahead and collapse at the first experience of difficulty. Merryman also said that children “demoralized by failure say they would rather cheat than risk failing again.” Children should not be scared of failure because losing hurts, but it happens. To succeed you need to fail at least once or twice, but children have the idea that if they do not win, they will still be rewarded as the winners, which does not happen. By protecting a child from defeat at a young age, you are weakening their competitive edge and to preparing them for the hardships and struggles they will face as they grow up.(Grosman)

When children are young, they learn lessons and skills essential to them later in life. If they grow up expecting everything to be given to them, life is going to be very hard. The biggest lesson in sports is that you face defeat and still return, but getting rewarded even if you lost does not teach that.(Grossman) So, when these children grow up expecting life to be easy and now realize it actually is not, they will experience a colossal culture