Persuasive Essay On Why Kids Get A Trophy

When you look at those trophies sitting in your room on your shelf, do you really feel that you deserved all of them? Many kids get trophies all the time and some can even be earned by just showing up. If you are just showing up you really aren’t working hard. This is a big controversy for kids who plays sports right now. Let's be real, not everyone deserves a trophy. Do you really think you earn every trophy you get? First of all, if everyone gets a trophy there isn't a game going on, you have to learn how to lose, it’s an important life lesson, and you have to really earn a trophy or it takes away the point of the game

If you always get a trophy is there really a game going on? When each team gets a trophy there really isn’t a loser

and a winner. There isn’t a real game going on. To put it simply, kids can’t always win because then they will think they need to win everything. In addition, they can become spoiled and think they need to win at everything. Some people argue that kids should get trophies because they say it will make them feel more confident or show them that they are earning things for what they are doing, but others strongly disagree. You shouldn’t get a trophy for gracing people with your presence! For example, Dr. Phil, a PhD and forensic psychology in his article, “Stop Spoiling Your Kids” states, “Your primary job as a parent is to prepare your child for how the world really works. In the real world, you don’t always get what you want.” What I mean by this is if they are spoiled they won't be prepared for the real world and will have a hard time accepting failure. Besides that, what fun is playing a sport that you work really hard at while others do nothing but everyone still gets a trophy anyway! That is just so unfair to the people who put in the hard work. The people who aren’t doing the work think they are getting away with it, so they will try to always take the easy way out.
Correspondingly, kids have to learn how to lose.

I understand the feeling of always wanting to win, sometimes I feel it myself, but we also have to take in the understanding of losing. “Kids respond positively to praise; they enjoy hearing that they’re talented, smart and so on. But after such praise of their innate abilities, they collapse at the first experience of difficulty. Demoralized by their failure, they say they’d rather cheat than risk failing again.” (Merryman) It can be hard to lose or be criticized for not doing a good job at something but if you’re always getting a pat on the back even when you aren’t doing a good job, what do we have to strive for? Kids who work hard learn a good work ethic and that their hard work pays off. It makes the reward that much better when you know you earned it. Adding on to that, if you take the easy way out and don’t put the hard work into sports or anything that you do, you have to be prepared to face failure. Being able to lose and show that you are going to try harder next time is a fantastic characteristic to have as a kid. All in all, you shouldn't be down on yourself if you lose, because it will happen many times in life and you just have to learn how to accept it, learn from it, and get back out there and try harder the next

time.
Equally important, not only do you have to truly earn that trophy, you have to know from within yourself that you did something to earn it. Just participating and not really putting in the work isn't enough you shouldn't just stop there, you actually have to put in the time and effort for those awards. It’s just as much about what you physically do as it is what you do mentally. Your mindset going into playing a game or participating in an event when there’s a true winner and loser will be much different then it would when all participants are awarded. Your sense of accomplishment when you truly win an award is one of the best feelings you can have. On the flip side when you lose, you know you need to work harder and that’s a good thing. When you just get an award for being on the team, does that award really mean anything? Well, let me tell you it doesn't! An RN working on a psych unit in the article, What Really Happens When We Give Kids Everything They Want” states, “ I see adults in their 20’s and 30’s who always had everything they ever wanted given to them while growing up, and now they just don't get it...Having been given everything they ever wanted without working for it while growing up, they don't feel that they should work for anything now.” The evidence, however, overwhelmingly supports the argument that kids really need to start earning what they are given, just like the trophies they need to earn them because it might have major effects on them later in life. When they grow up they might try and take the easy way out or make someone else do all that hard work for them, but in reality they need to learn to earn it or they are not going anywhere in life.
In brief, kids throughout the country and all over the globe should most definitely not receive awards for everything they do. They should learn how to earn them, work for them and ultimately feel pride in them. Basically when everyone gets a trophy there are no winners and losers. If children get everything they ever want it could have effects on them later in life. They would end up never working for anything they want because they would believe that they don’t have to. In addition, they have to learn how to lose because if they win at everything then they will think they can't lose and will risk cheating instead of failure. Lastly, they might become spoiled and think they should get everything they want in the world handed to them instead of them working hard to get it. In final analysis, everyone can’t get a trophy!