To Be Illegal Persuasive Speech

Tittle You are a hunter and you have been for the last ten years. You have been sitting on your treestand all day just waiting for that perfect shot. Then, you see it, that beauty of a white tail walking right past you. You line up your scope with your target, just behind the front leg. The situation is perfectly ethical and nothing is holding you back from pulling the trigger. You feel a cough swelling in your throat but you must stay silent or you will spook the dough. Releasing the safety you breath in, hold your breath, count to three, pull. As you pull the trigger that dang cough bursts from your throat making you miss the target and hit the dirt right in front of her making her sprint away. You hear a branch snap below you and as you look down you see a man holding a small trophy. He says,”Good work, at least you tried your best!” Is this what you want to happen to your kids? I don’t think it is a good idea to give kids participation trophies because they shouldn’t be trained at a young age that all you have to do is show up.

There is many reasons why participation trophies are a minus in the world today. Adults in the world today know for sure that if you want something you are not just going to receive it you must try and work for it. At the snap of their little fingers, kids today can get anything they want. Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University, research shows that kids like hearing good things about what they can do but,

Parents say that not giving the losing team trophies would encourage them to quit. But, this is where they must encourage the child to practice harder and work for that winning trophy. Equally important is the argument of, “give them the trophy to make them feel better about losing.” Well, giving them a trophy in spite of losing makes them also feel like all they have to do is show up. (Website