Argumentative Analysis

Researchers Bradley Morris and Shannon Zentall performed on experiment on children asking them to illustrate pictures. The children that had been praised during the experiment had begun to focus on errors or mistakes they had made or were making in their drawings. The kids ranging from 4 to 5 surprisingly were not tricked by trophies. The kids shockingly were correct in figuring out which kids were skillful and those who had a hard time.(Merryman)

Meaningful awards, the opposite of participation awards, help them to learn things like how...competition can encourage them more than hurt them, trying their best is all that matters even if they do not get a trophy, and that their mistakes are the best teaching tool for their improvement.
Competition

Kelly Wallace, author of Does sports participation deserve a trophy? Let the parental debate begin!, reports that participation trophies are not to make everyone a winner but, instead to recognize the child’s hard work put towards the competition and to give them a memory of the experience they have had says Honea on Facebook.(Wallace) While, that may be the case in some situation why can’t the child’s hard work be enough if they know they tried their hardest why can’t that be the experience for them they don’t need a trophy for it . Also children cutting down on competition because they’re “too young” and competition contributes to low self-esteem affecting a child’s motivation and their overall performance “Kohn made his case that competition is not an inevitable part of human nature, that it causes anxiety and shame, that it creates disabling stress that inhibits performance, and that it fosters aggression and hostility”