in terms of our entire generation being ~ showered with participation trophies ~ 1) i don't actually remember that being the rule. 2) when i *was* given a participation trophy i don't remember ever thinking "wow, i won!" and finally 3) you idiots gave them to us, blame yourselves
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That's always been my thought as well. We didn't construct those gold plastic statutes ourselves, boomer.
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Participation trophies are rewards parents give themselves.
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yes, it's more for the parental signaling value than anything.
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Lol, blah haha. Very true, my generation started that crap
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My hot take is that participation trophies are good—literature on child psychology shows that rewarding kids for effort is the most important thing to generate long term good habits, rather than praising them based on outcome
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The biggest conceptual mistake of the participation trophy critique is that it assumes everyone gets a participation trophy—but you don’t! Most people don’t participate! The distinction is between participants and non-participants
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participation trophies, to me, were shameful, awards for losing
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now do elementary & middle school “graduation”
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It’s almost always a crituque of the parents who demanded them. Or the parents that couldn’t handle different outcomes, because they feared correctly they were based on merit.
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