Should children receive an award for simply participating? Or should only the kids that do something excessive receive an award? Throughout history, society has altered their trophy giving policies. In America, rewarding all younger students in activities, has become tradition. At the moment, if you show up to an event, everyone earns an award; some believe it makes it fair if every young person achieves an award. On the contrary, other individuals think if everyone is granted with an accolade, even the kids that didn't do much, it will make them assume that they don’t have to work hard. Securing an award, may feel extravagant, however, giving an award to everyone, simply because they participate, is unacceptable.
Every child should not receive an endowment for participation, being that it will result in them not doing their best. Wentworth Miller once said, in his article about success, “I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually
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Think about it, in the past, our country as a whole, was thriving, and look at us now. Day by day people are getting more and more apathetic; While drop out rates and raising as well as unemployment. Is it coincidence that we changed the trophy policy, and soon people became unmotivated? We, as a nation need to inform the younger generation to work hard for everything they want to achieve. If we just hand them an award for not doing much and not being the best they can be, it will cause lackadaisical among everyone. My great teacher Mr. Rose once said “success breeds success.” With that being said, laziness also breeds laziness, the more unmotivated people we have, it will spread like wildfire. This generation is the future of our country and we must teach them to work hard. Obviously, awards should not be presented to those who don't work for
Some people may argue that if everyone gets a trophy, everyone will be happy. That might be an understandable concern, however, according to people on blog.sportssignup.com, “By acknowledging everyone with the same award we’re actually celebrating no one and even undermining the efforts of those who really deserve to be recognized.” Similarly, it makes the kids who work really hard feel like there efforts were equal or worse than the efforts of those who do not try hard and do not work hard. On the other hand, if everyone gets a trophy than winners are no longer special. Kids should play sports because they enjoy playing them, not because they want a trophy. It is like one of those arcade games at the movie theater, you keep playing until you win. Another way to say this is, sports were made because they wanted to let people have fun and try to compete, but now sports is turning into the concept of everyone is a winner. Kids and adults feel like we are ruining what sports are supposed to be. In summary, many citizens think that kids should not get trophies for participation because only kids who work hard deserve
Children shouldn't be given participation trophies, this can cause false sense of confidence and it can make them expect to always be a winner in life. This can affect them every day not everyone will nail that job interview or win the game and it will be hard on them not being able to except that they lost or couldn't do it. You don't get paid to just show up at a job, you have to work. You don't win by showing up to the hockey
L. Hefferman’s article “ In Defense of Participation Trophies: Why they really do teach the right values?” it states “ An award is not really an award if everyone gets it.” (Today.com) In another article by Ashley Merryman called “Losing is Good For You” it says “Awards can be a powerful motivators but nonstop recognition does not inspire children to succeed. Instead, it can cause them to underachieve.” (New York Times Sept. 2013) It is clear, by not giving participation awards it make the children who do get awarded feel more special than if everyone gets one. Obviously, not giving participation awards to everyone gives more of a boost of self-esteem to the people who do get
Our society has shifted its beliefs in how we should treat competition in young people. The question is asked, should all kids get a participation trophy? As it may seem to be an unanswerable question, it honestly isn’t. Thought that the participation trophies may send the message that “coaches” value the kids’ efforts despite their abilities, trophies do not need to be given out. Your words mean just as much when you remind an athlete that you value them in more ways than one. Some may think trophies are a great idea because it shows that everyone’s a “winner.” However, I disagree with that idea. I believe that kids should know that they need to work their hardest in order to be rewarded and understand that not
Priceman states,”They were taught that these awards were placeholders in life. They were records of accomplishment.” It reminds kids of their hard work in a sport. In some cases participation awards are okay, like special needs, and if used correctly, to build a child’s self esteem. But in many cases it does not help children in real life. By giving them too many awards some kids think they cannot live up to the hype, and it brings their self esteem down. While others are the opposite, “When parents regularly overpraised their children’s performances, their children were more likely to be narcissistic two years later”
According to researcher and author of “Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing,” Ashley Merryman says “having studied recent increases in narcissism and entitlement among college students, (she) warns that when living rooms are filled with participation trophies, it’s part of a larger cultural message: to succeed, you just have to show up.” She also says “if children know they will automatically get an award, what is the impetus for improvement? Why bother learning problem-solving skills, when there are never obstacles to begin with?” She goes on to say handing out trophies undermines kids’ success: “The benefit of competition isn’t actually winning”. Another author says “when you’re constantly giving a kid a trophy for everything they’re doing, you’re saying, ‘I don’t care about improvement. I don’t care that you’re learning from your mistakes. All we expect is that you’re always a winner’” (Ross). These particiation trophies have many negative effects that can make these children less succesful in competitive enviornments: such as college or in the work force. It will also make them less prepared for an independent life after leaving
Todays generation of kids have been crafted to expect praise for everyday tasks and have become entitled all because of something many people thought was harmless, participation trophies. If you ask anyone, they have probably recieved a participation trophy at least once in their life and some will think it was a good thing, but others may beg to differ. In my opinion participation trophies are a bad tool in life because it goes along and is a big part of the we are all winners concept. Trophies should be a symbol of accomplishing something not a symbol of participation in an activity and a few people have written about their opinion about this situation varying from critical writers, to college athletes from around the country here are
But by doing this, it can also send a wrong message to kids who get them for not winning. They could think that these trophies are given for everyone. One quote from the article called “Should Everyone Get a Trophy” by Lauren Tarshis say’s,”But some experts suggest that giving trophies to everyone sends the wrong message. In life, most people are not awarded for simply doing what’s required.” So this tells that giving trophies for every child can tell them something other than what others want them to know. Another quote from the same article states,”An employee doesn’t get a raise just to arriving to work on time. Shouldn’t only the hardest working or the highest performing athletes get the accolades.”This message is what trophies try to tell kids but they can’t because people keep giving these awards to everyone just for
Many people believe that the money generated from the sports played by these kids should be given back to them as they are the ones drawing the fans to these events. However few realize how little schools actually gain money by participating in the National Colligate Athletics Association. A recent study conducted by USA today showed that there are only 40 schools that consistently turn profits from the sports that they host. (Whiteside, USAtoday.com) This means that out of approximately 200 schools who participate in division one sports, only 1/5 actually would have money available to give back to the student athletes. Furthermore, it would be unfair to provide the students who play the sports, the money that is generated from their events, rather then putting the money back into the schools. Although these students participate and spend much of their time playing, they are no more special then the average student who attends the school. Putting the money back into the school itself allows everyone a better education, rather then just a few students, some spending money.
Have you ever have a kid on your team miss half of the practices, and games? If so, then why should kids get a trophy for showing up? In society, many people are arguing whether or not kids should get trophies for participation. Not everyone should get a trophy for participation. First, if kids want something in life they have to work for it. Second, trophies are only for winners. Lastly, giving kids trophies could send them the wrong message.
The society we live in makes it normal to give out awards that have not been earned. Why should we give awards to people that haven’t earned them? People will say that we do give out unearned awards to encourage children and make sure they don’t feel left out or feel like they aren’t good enough. In reality, studies have shown that awarding children for only participation has a negative impact. Kids know when they have earned
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Imagine that you see a sports team of kids getting trophies just for participation. Then, you see another team getting trophies, but instead of all the kids getting trophies, only one kid got one. Which side would you be on: the one with all of the kids getting trophies, or the one with only one kid having a trophy? Recently many sports teams have been giving young athletes trophies just for participating games. Trophies should only be given to the top three winners because coaches spend too much money on trophies, having too many trophies increase selfishness and narcissism, and awards can make athletes underachieve.
Kids who are being motivated by getting paid or reward is lazy because kids are only doing good to get something. Money should be used to reward your kid for getting good grades because it's their job to go to school and do go for himself not for that reward. Kids should be motivated by seeing that if they but in that good work and getting good grades there is a reward after all but it may not be money or something like that it is graduating either 8th and going into high school or graduating highschool and going to college for a good job that is what kids should be motivated by.This article I read Why parent should never give kids money for good grades at school say It’s not what ultimately motivates me though and I don’t want it to be what motivates my kids. They need to be motivated to learn for the learning itself and striving hard based on desires that are deeper than
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