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Participation Backwards

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A large debate about participation trophies is raging, whether kids should or shouldn’t receive participation trophies. I personally think they shouldn’t get participation trophies.

Is it possible for participation trophies to help your kid in the real world? No. “Kids don’t get passed in class just for showing up,” says Kurt Warner. A news reporter from CNN named Kelly Wallace stated “I asked my kid if getting a participation trophy ever stopped her from participating and she told me “It didn’t.”(Website #1). Giving your kid a participation trophy is basically lying to your kid. Participation trophies can spoil your kid rotten and make them think very highly of themselves. The Psychology Professor from Stanford University said, her daughter

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