Participation awards; Should we protect kids with Participation awards?
Nancy starts of the passage with a strong quote, “Life isn’t always fair.” That’s straight up the truth. Kids shouldn’t get a participation trophy or awards for sports or competitions. For anything at all. It sends the opposite message to the kids who did try their absolute top game, unlike the participators, mopping around. Like James Harrison says, “I'm not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best.” Harrison’s parenting perspective on trophies is exactly how we should think about this argument.
James Harrison says we shouldn’t protect kids. If we keep giving out participation trophies, kids will soon learn that that no matter how little they try if they just by show up, they deserve to be given as much …show more content…
What does Nancy mean by this? It’s that we are actually harming the kids in the long run. How? Well, I learned this the hard way in preschool. I used to get an A for every single thing I did and that translated very badly to elementary school. I learned that you don’t get an award or in this instance an A, if you try your hardest on a math test. You have to study hard, come on time and overall make an effort to be the best at what you do As I grow older, it's the same for life. You don't get an A for just coming to school anymore and you don’t get a pay raise for just showing up to work. In conclusion, Participation awards aren’t helpful to kids. They don’t teach the main focus of what first place trophies show to the hard-workers. That you tried your best and you should keep up the work. However, if everyone got an award we would still be stuck at where you are now, forever not improving or striving to achieve excellence. Overall, kids shouldn’t be taught the life lesson that they are entitled to anything for just showing
Nancy starts of the passage with a strong quote, “Life isn’t always fair.” That’s straight up the truth. Kids shouldn’t get a participation trophy or awards for sports or competitions. For anything at all. It sends the opposite message to the kids who did try their absolute top game, unlike the participators, mopping around. Like James Harrison says, “I'm not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best.” Harrison’s parenting perspective on trophies is exactly how we should think about this argument.
James Harrison says we shouldn’t protect kids. If we keep giving out participation trophies, kids will soon learn that that no matter how little they try if they just by show up, they deserve to be given as much …show more content…
What does Nancy mean by this? It’s that we are actually harming the kids in the long run. How? Well, I learned this the hard way in preschool. I used to get an A for every single thing I did and that translated very badly to elementary school. I learned that you don’t get an award or in this instance an A, if you try your hardest on a math test. You have to study hard, come on time and overall make an effort to be the best at what you do As I grow older, it's the same for life. You don't get an A for just coming to school anymore and you don’t get a pay raise for just showing up to work. In conclusion, Participation awards aren’t helpful to kids. They don’t teach the main focus of what first place trophies show to the hard-workers. That you tried your best and you should keep up the work. However, if everyone got an award we would still be stuck at where you are now, forever not improving or striving to achieve excellence. Overall, kids shouldn’t be taught the life lesson that they are entitled to anything for just showing