I don't. I support giving them a nice certificate thanking them for their participation and send their losing ass home. #WinnersANDLosers
Do you support the idea every child should get a trophy and be celebrated even though they lost the competition?
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My daughter won an art contest that a local car dealership had every Christmas. They use the student's art work to use for their Christmas cards. The art teacher was fair and sent in the artwork and my daughter won. The prize was a $500 savings bond.
During her school lunch the principal and the car dealership owner made the announcement and took the 3 winners 1st, 2nd and 3rd on stage to receive their prizes. She was pretty happy. It was a surprise for her.
When I walked with her back to her classroom in the student line that is when it got ugly. Kids pouting and making remarks. They thought it was a cash reward.
There were a lot of other things she didn't win during her school years so this was nice.
When she went to college she worked hard from the very beginning. She had never been academic and she's been pulling off 100s in her classes. She went from the so so student to a really good student.
As soon as she was doing well other students started accusing her of cheating, etc. She studied/went to classed 8 to 12 hours 6 days a week and sometimes studied on the 7th day. It irked me that working hard to play catch up for what she missed in public was then something to bully her about.
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Short answer no but they can receive words of encouragement and advice how to do better.
Teaching a child to celebrate their peers' successes, feel the sting of failure for themselves, and retain sportsmanship are vital.
No one gives trophies for doing your job.
I don't even support "participation ribbons". You participated. You did the minimum. Congratulations. You have memories, you have what you learned, you have the fun you had.
No, handing out trophies that are not earned is bullshit because its fake. Its what is happening the USA.
Every child gets a trophy, so why does the child need to try harder or practice? Whine and complain and the government pays your way.. how about getting a job? Some states in the USA are giving undocumented illegals drivers license, WTF why do I as a citizen have to get prove who I am where I live etc.. Man up and if the kid is good he is good and if he is not then practice and try harder.
It's a tough idea... I'd rather a certificate of participation showing they were in the competition, for example beauty pageant or chess tournament would be cool to see in later adult years, not that you won but you were apart of it. Not an award but something showing you were there. Even at a car show something showing that your car was there
Hell NO! I think that crap has destroyed our society, and made at least one generation and "Entitled Set of Babies" that have no idea of reality, and how life really is! There are winners, and losers, and when you LOSE, TRY HARDER, and be a WINNER!! Everyone is special, piss off!! Read Chapter 3, of the "Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*CK!" by Mark Manson!
No. Kids need to learn an important lesson: You can't always win, and you will lose, and often so; learn from your experiences. Get back up, and try harder.
Another important lesson: Better win no trophies, than win any trophy you didn't earn.
I think we're doing our children a disservice when we coddle them too much.
i dont beleive everybody should get a throphy... the reason behind it is: it teaches the child about winning and losing and if they didn't win what they could done to win or if they did win how proud their parents are of them. how can you teach lose if nobody loses?
If everybody is special, they are the same, and being the same is not special. lol
Participation trophies are counterproductive. It teaches them that they will get the same as everyone else no matter how hard or how little they try. Then when they become adults they are screwed and get confused why they can't achieve what others can.
Absolutely not! We are social animals, which implies developing an awareness of our ranking in society. If kids don't learn where and how to fit in they will get a real shock on going out into the real world where their over protective mummies have no control. That will destroy their self worth, leading to depression, anxiety, whatever.
Nope. In the real world, you don't get participation trophies, just for having a go. Giving everyone who takes part a medal or trophy demeans the effort and achievement of those who win. The most that anyone gives is award for 2nd and 3rd place. 4th onwards shouldn't really get anything because they didn't achieve anything.
No, it makes the trophy meaningless in the eyes of the kids (and frankly everyone else). If a child worked hard to be the best at something and they get the same trophy as everyone else, what incentive do they have to continue wanting to be the best? What about the child's friend who wasn't the best, what incentive does he have to do better than he did? We should teach kids that if you work harder than everyone else you get rewarded, which is a valuable lesson for life.
No they shouldn't. Spoken as a person who never got higher than 5th place in anything. It encouraged me to be the best I could be. Life is full of failures and knock backs children need to learn to accept that. It's part of growing up
They should be encouraged and supported for their work, time and effort, but not receive a trophy, if they lost. Unless it was something like second place or honorable mention, etc.
No because we should encourage their fighting spirit. My niece is in Kindergarden and not even her Kindergarden group does this. If someone wins the whole group simply celebrates them
Sure why not, the trophy is irrelevant. You should be instilling the right values into your kids as a parent. So you're kid getting a $10 trophy is going to undo that? It's probably more traumatic to your kid that you can't be bothered to show up and see him compete. Look if you're kid stinks he's going to know the sting of failure soon enough. People put too much positive/negative worth in a cheesy plastic statue.
No... I wasn't and as a result built a business and am heading towards my second... partipation medals are a liberalisation and just like everything else with liberals... utterly useless or even degenerative to society
No. Winners deserve trophies. Competition motivates people to be better more effectively than the idiotic "everybody is special" mentality.
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The winner is the best at whatever is being done. It is the same at school as in adult life. There are winners and losers. Just have to do your best and try to be a winner.
I have to disgaree with that. I think trying to be a winner at life isn't what makes someone truly happy. And there isn't any reason to try to strive to be a winner. If you notice the ones that win at everything and have nice lifes aren't the people that are happy. I guess I think this way because I define success as being happy and others would like to think of it as having it all
@Apple1996 It depends on the person. I will NEVER sit on my bum doing very little. I will always strive to do MY best. In memory of my father, who advised me, "Never stop learning".
So many people are content to shuffle through life getting nowhere. I intend to use my 7 years at uni as best as I can.
Yeah I think sports and all that is a complete waste of time. Great for the exercise and working as a team but trying to win and be the best isn't cool. And it's not about shuffling through life. It's about being happy and making the best of your life because we are all only given one. In my eyes people going to school and playing sports are the ones wasting there days away not living
@Apple1996 It is just a matter of what you want out of life. Some people are content just shuffling along, as I say. Others, like me, are striving to make the internet a safer place for all of us.
Pathetic, when you're an adult and you go for a job, if you dont get the job do they offer you a consolation job? No! Life doesn't work that way and children should be taught that, otherwise they will go through life expecting something for nothing.
No cause it teaches them to be losers and get rewarded for it? That’s not right is it. They should hate the feeling of losing and use it as fuel and love the feeling of hard earned work when they actually manage to win.
Meritocracy is the Natural Order. Let muscle force be pitted against muscle force, brain power against brain power. And let the winner wear the crown and the loser wear the rasping sackcloth.
But every participants should get some kinda reward. They must understand their efforts were great. They simply wasn't good enough. This at least gives them motivation to try again and work harder.
Damn yea, there is that guy i forgot his name, the smartest serial killer ever, an iq of an intellectual, he chose killing because of the way he was raised, so a little appreciation would change the future
no that would "unprepare" them for the real world even more than school already does to begin with. competitions, sports or other talents, are pretty much the best things that teach children about how the world works
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