Ruin A Child Analysis

How to ruin a child In the article it’s told that “the theory that praise, self-esteem and accomplishment increase in tandem is false” (George F. Will). Which is why some children soccer teams stopped counting goals and shower trophies on everyone, or that they even in physical education classes’ students are jump roping without rope. He says children are jumping rope without ropes because of self-esteem obsession and the list goes on, such as opening lunchboxes to find handwritten notes telling how amazing they are can lead to encountering academic difficulties. That overpraised children are prone to cheating because they have not developed strategies for coping with failure all because we put them in “high-pressure environments” such as …show more content…
Children should be praised for their hard work. It encourages them to take a step further in whatever they are doing. I know as a child I was always delighted when my parents praised me for my work. A good example is I love to play chess, I have played chess since the second grade and my special interest supervisor always came to our school on Friday and we usually do many things but one thing I enjoyed was when we played chess. So, later on she told us of a tournament for chess that had all surrounding counties for special interest groups participating and it was to be held at Troy University. Our supervisor decided to bring two of the students from our school to participate. The students voted, they chose me and another to represent us. There was to be sixteen rounds out of a lot of students. At the end I won first with fifteen wins, one tie, and zero losses (I always like to say I had the sixteenth wins because it was deemed a tie by a judge just by a glance, didn’t even use the rules. As the rules for a tie are if it is a stalemate which is he cannot make a move which the opponent did have, or threefold repetition which is making the same move three times which never happened, or not enough pieces which I had plentiful to go around. Yes I tend to get upset about this because I like chess and I don’t like to get cheated out of things that was certainly going to happen but I couldn’t do much so I had to just let it go. I still joke about it when my friends ask about it sometimes because they know I am really into chess and I was upset about it around the time). Later on to my senior year in high school I even formed a chess club because I enjoy playing it and wanted others to try it out, but to wrap up this story, I was delighted when my parents told me they were proud of me, because I did my best at something I love and the results