The Importance Of Participation Rewards For Children

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Are people giving kids too much trophies. Lately kids are giving participation trophies for everything. Adults are giving too much trophies because It teaches that losing is bad. There's no participation trophies in the real world. It can also develop narcissistic traits.

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

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