Shown repeatedly throughout both articles ‘You Are Not Special’ by David McCullough and ‘You Shouldn’t Get a Prize for Showing Up” by Nancy Armour, a common central idea of overused admiration and parents over-sheltering their children is apparent in both texts. While both of the writers show compelling arguments, parents and children act completely different ways than what is assumed of them. Parents do not always show excessive pride for their children nor do they keep them cut off from the outside world out of fear ‘the real world’.
Many adults have a different perception of Millennials, describing “No wonder study after study has shown that Millennials, the first of the trophy generations, are stressed out and depressed. They were sold …show more content…
Because you’re not” (McCullough, 8-9).Of course every parent is going to dote on their child and act like they’re special and shelter them, it’s simply what parents do. Of course, there’s also the probability of having parents that just don’t care, and they never make an attempt to connect with their children. By the time most people are graduating high school, they get the idea that they aren’t as different as the person sitting next to them in Geometry class, and they’ve come to terms with their, most likely, basic future filled with working endless hours to pay off student loans. When their parents were younger, things were different, and as a result they usually come to the incorrect conclusion that young adults all must on a high horse because they had a better upbringing than they themselves did, of course nobody is the same, contrary to popular …show more content…
It’s affirmation that our kids are as wonderful as we think they are.“(Armour 14).It’s widely known that the reason children receive trophies for showing up is so nobody feels left out from the crowd, and while according to the article ‘You Shouldn’t Get a Prize for Showing Up’ we shouldn’t let them have little victories out of fear of sheltering them, They’re just children, and leaving them out could be just as damaging. If we show them at a young age that life isn’t fair, how will they be any better off then thinking they deserve a trophy all the time? This isn’t including the fact that after children grow out of their trophy stage they figure out for themselves how unfair life really is, and it has little to do with getting participation trophies as
Many adults have a different perception of Millennials, describing “No wonder study after study has shown that Millennials, the first of the trophy generations, are stressed out and depressed. They were sold …show more content…
Because you’re not” (McCullough, 8-9).Of course every parent is going to dote on their child and act like they’re special and shelter them, it’s simply what parents do. Of course, there’s also the probability of having parents that just don’t care, and they never make an attempt to connect with their children. By the time most people are graduating high school, they get the idea that they aren’t as different as the person sitting next to them in Geometry class, and they’ve come to terms with their, most likely, basic future filled with working endless hours to pay off student loans. When their parents were younger, things were different, and as a result they usually come to the incorrect conclusion that young adults all must on a high horse because they had a better upbringing than they themselves did, of course nobody is the same, contrary to popular …show more content…
It’s affirmation that our kids are as wonderful as we think they are.“(Armour 14).It’s widely known that the reason children receive trophies for showing up is so nobody feels left out from the crowd, and while according to the article ‘You Shouldn’t Get a Prize for Showing Up’ we shouldn’t let them have little victories out of fear of sheltering them, They’re just children, and leaving them out could be just as damaging. If we show them at a young age that life isn’t fair, how will they be any better off then thinking they deserve a trophy all the time? This isn’t including the fact that after children grow out of their trophy stage they figure out for themselves how unfair life really is, and it has little to do with getting participation trophies as