We Give Kids Too Many Trophies Analysis

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying”, told by Michael Jordan. In the New York Times article, We have gone crazy as a society, bestowing trophies on children for almost everything, even just showing up. This shows that, we are giving kids trophies no specific reason except for just showing up. Kids should not be able to get trophies for participation because it teaching the kids that losing is so terrible that we can never let it happen and It is not an effective way for coaches to motivate his players. Not everyone should get a trophy for participation because it is teaching the kids that losing is so terrible that we can never let it happen. In the New York Times article ¨Do We Give Kids Too Many Trophies?¨ by Michael Gonchar says ¨If children always receive a trophy - regardless of effort or achievement - we're teaching that losing is so terrible that we can never let it happen.¨It also says that¨In study of Gold Medal Olympians, they said that a loss was key to their championships.¨ This shows that if we give kids trophies, then we are teaching kids the wrong lesson that losing is horrible even though losing is sometimes key to a victory. This makes it really hard for kids to
Giving kids trophies is totally not effective. On debate.org someone quoted,¨ Kids need to learn how to earn what they get.¨ Also in the text, ¨Should Everyone Get a Trophy¨the article says ¨Less - gifted players would spend entire games sitting on the bench.¨ This shows that even though they get a trophy, they don't even get to play in the game and have fun. When I was about five years old, I used to play little kid basketball and every year, i would get a trophy, even though I was terrible at basketball, but I did not feel like I deserved it because I did not win a championship or win