What a pathetic nation of entitled whiners we’ve become. When did participation in a sport or any competition deserve a trophy? Trophies are for winners. Trophies are for the people who excelled. Trophies are for the people who worked harder than their competitors and won. The bullshit about every child being a special snowflake has permeated our society and created generations of momma’s boys and girls. They think they deserve a trophy for showing up at their jobs now. They think they deserve automatic B’s for showing up at college classes. They think they deserve pay raises because they came to work.
You get ahead in life by hard work, using your brain, and refining your social skills. The free shit army mentality permeating our culture drives the participation trophy bullshit. Real free market capitalism (not the crony capitalism/socialism) has winners and losers. Losers need to work harder to become winners. Not in America today. The losers have a million excuses and think they deserve exactly what the winners have achieved.
Trophies for all. Do it for the chilrun. We must boost the self-esteem of losers so they think they are winners.
On HBO’s return of “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” Tuesday night, Bernard Goldberg looks into the current culture of handing out trophies to children just for showing up, and how this trend potentially leads to damaging psychological effects.
“We want to make each child feel special,” says Brian Sanders, president of i9 Sports, the largest youth sports franchise in the nation.
How does he make them feel special?
By giving them all trophies. At an event outside Tampa, Fla. with 650 kids in attendance all will receive trophies, there is a division champion award and everyone else receives an “All-Star” trophy, both prizes are the same size.
This isn’t just a phenomenon with his sports league. Janet Anderson is the regional commissioner in Los Angeles for AYSO Soccer and she told Goldberg for her 1,200 under-eight players, “If there name is on the roster, they get a trophy.”
This means that players who don’t even show up can receive an award. On top of that, her league doesn’t keep score, no one is a loser.
And what happened when Anderson decided to stop giving trophies to all participants for players over age eight? “Some parents went out and bought their own trophies for the whole team,” explained Anderson to Goldberg.
It isn’t just children who are winners. The trophy industry now has sales around $2 billion at the retail level, says Scott Sletten of JDS Industries, one of the world’s largest trophy wholesalers. Sletten’s parents started the South Dakota business in 1972. Then, the mom-pop shop had sales of $20,000 to $40,000 a year. JDS now has sales of over $50 million a year.
This culture arises out of a movement beginning in the late 20th Century to push the importance of self-esteem in education. “The state of California had a task force in the 1980s to study self-esteem, and we thought especially for kids in struggling communities if we just told them they were great, they would believe it, and then they could achieve more because they were certain they were great,” said researcher Ashley Merryman.
This movement has apparently spiraled out of control. “Preschoolers sometimes now sing a song to the tune of ‘Frère Jacques’ that goes like this, ‘I am special I am special look at me look at me,’” according to San Diego State University professor Jean Twenge.
This push to make every child feel special leads to problems in college. A study highlighted in Goldberg’s report shows that a third of college students say they deserve a B grade as long as they attend most classes in a course.
Dr. Robert Cloninger, professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine has been studying the effects of rewards with rats in mazes. He found that rats that received food just for working their way through the maze were lazy. “They will not be fast runners to get to the trophy, and they will quit easily the moment they are no longer getting rewarded.”
He concludes that children won’t be able to succeed if we pretend that they don’t fail. Cloninger says, “We have to get over the notion that everyone has to be a winner in the United States, it just isn’t true.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/20/hbos-real-sports-looks-into-americas-trophy-culture/#ixzz3i2otYcjW
Trophies are worthless, you acquire self satisfaction / confidence by doing the best job you can do.
I should get some kind of trophy just for showing up at this joint every day.
Many states are reporting an increase in accidental deaths, and, of course, the suicide rate has been increasing for a long time (funny how the more meds we demand for our brains, the more people seem to give up and kill themselves/others, what a freaking coincidence!) in those between 18-25.
Studies are being done and the “experts” are demanding more regulations, laws, safety, blah, blah, blah.
Obviously even our geniuses can’t figure out what an aware mommy can:
We have traded our childhood bumps, bruises, failures and struggles, for hitting adulthood without mommy/daddy/teacher there to tell us not to jump off the roof and onto a trampoline with a bike.
Those of us that started riding, and falling down, and jumping, and making ramps, at the age of five or six have pretty much figured out how easy it is to get injured and we make our choices with those pains and memories in mind.
Nope, not us, we would rather wrap them in bubblewrap right up until the day we turn them loose.
I am so glad I did not raise my son that way. And as much as currently allowed by law, I’m trying to raise my daughter that way too. Another reason to move away from future urban warzones.
For SSS ….. a Nipple Trophy
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For Admin ………… a “Blow Me” trophy
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But the problem with “every kid needs a trophy” is that the REAL WORLD does not work this way.
Kids that get a trophy for just showing up have no idea of (or appreciation for) the blood, sweat and tears it takes to “win”. They come to the work place with purple hair, total body piercing and obscene tattoos and expect to be the CEO in 2 years! We are raising a entire generation of these “Special Snowflakes” this way.
Of course when their Special Snowflake World Bubble does not align with Reality, that is when you get this “victim” mentality. You didn’t like them because of whatever (usually weirdness) thingy that made them special, therefore YOU are the hater/bigot/racist/homophobe/islamophobe/whatever.
That these Special Snowflakes haven’t the slightest CLUE about hard work, sacrifice, or delayed gratification never seems to enter into their libtard progressive/Marxist/commie propaganda saturated brains.
Of course, our educational system is filled with Special Snowflakes educators as well, thus perpetuating this farce,
And here is where it gets really tragic/funny/farcical: These kids are paying $100K for these useless social studies Special Snowflake degrees and are told by their “professors” that all this Special Snowflake behavior is reasonable – while their “professors” that spout this crap are laughing all the way to the bank.
Truly, liberalism is a mental disorder.
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Trophy for dickfuks who think it’s OK for a copfuk to put a child with mental issues in handcuffs for being difficult
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Eh, I think ya’ll are making too big of deal out of the trophies. Everybody got a trophy while I was a kid, but the kids didn’t value them. I certainly didn’t care if I got a trophy. I always got the impression the trophies were for the parents in compensation for paying for their kids to be in these leagues in the first place.
Fucking a I hate participation trophies
They had them in soccer when I was a kid (80s), I hated it and hate soccer to this day largely because of this and the other faggot ass (no homo) bullshit from the coach’s and other faggot ass (no homo) adults in charge. I found it insulting beyond belief to receive these pieces of shit and could never wait to throw them in the trash where they belonged.
Fuck just thinking about this makes me want to go tell off those now old ass loosers
Stephanie you hit the nail on the head they weren’t for us they were for our parents and the other adults
I had a coach in soccer I would seriously like to piss on to this day
And just how else to you propose to create, nurture, and develop the next Kim Kardashian?
She is special, look at her, look at her…
I’m with Clam on this one, they started this bullshit while I was in school, and we didn’t give a damn about our trophies.
Kids want to win, its that easy.
I think the stupid fucking things are just so useless boomer parents can feel like their child is better than they actually are.
Gotta bring it up since nobody has yet……what about “Special” Olympics?
“Gotta bring it up since nobody has yet……what about “Special” Olympics?” —– Westcoaster
Pretty sure YOU would win multiple gold medals.
To all Meathead trophy haters now you’re the whiney pussies boys like Norman. What up Norman ? Psychologically frustrated from birth.?Not enough of mama titty ?
Before I played high school football I played in the little league of football.7th + 8th grade. Everyone of us on every little team got a trophy .I still have mine as well as my FORD punt .pass and kick trophies Iwon for being such a great player…..To all especially Norman : blow me
“Kids want to win, its that easy.”-TPC
Exactly. You win some, you lose some. Leave it to boomer parents to make everything about consumerism and materialism. My trophies got thrown away many, many years ago. It is just a waste of money. I prefer playing sports sandlot style. Just the kids getting together and keeping score themselves. The boomers greatly lived vicariously through their kids. Oh, the egos…
bb – lol, your kept your participation shit from 7th and 8th grade, lol you stupid fucking faggot ass simp
I was approximately 6 years old in my story about the faggot soccer coach above, by the time I was in 7th or 8th grade I would have called him a faggot to his face and your talking about how great it was to get the loser award
Stephanie,
I understand you didn’t value the participation trophies, but what was the reward for winning? What was the incentive for practicing and striving to go beyond your previous best? Doesn’t this sort of thing undermine the whole idea of striving to achieve excellence? Maybe that was another goal of the “self-esteem” psychologists who put this idea into our schools and our society.
AP: “but what was the reward for winning? What was the incentive for practicing and striving to go beyond your previous best?”
Uh, winning is the reward for winning. Winning is the incentive for practicing and striving. Setting goals and accomplishing those goals is more rewarding than buying a child a cheap trophy.
Stucky should get a trophy for showing up…personally I look forward to his posts and comments. I don’t always agree, but he does make one think about a position. As for trophies, winners get em, losers can go home and try again.
Stucky….you are awesome today; must be smoking some real good shit.
I want a Trophy from you !!!!
I’ll be waiting.
Agree with the ‘Trophy for Everybody’ BS, for the reasons cited in above comments.
In schools, in early grades, everybody gets a ‘Star’ – pisses me off.
Steph,
Playing sandlot sports for the fun of it is great, but the point I was clumsily trying to make is that relatively few people have the inner drive to achieve world-class excellence at something without some kind of external recognition. If everyone gets a trophy, if everyone is special, nobody is special. Fewer stars arise to challenge the elites. The leveling of the proletariat is enhanced.
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Even the Nobel Prize Committee is giving them away (Hussein, Gore, etc).
AP: I do understand what you are saying, but the general popular opinion of getting a prize is what I am mocking. There are several instances in a child’s life where they will get no reward for hard work or an accomplishment. It would be ridiculous to give a kid a trophy for winning a game of checkers or a game of go-fish, but we give them a trophy for organized sports?
There were many things I never got rewarded for growing up because the reward was the accomplishment itself. I didn’t get a reward for cleaning my room or getting good grades. I think the problem is not just participation trophies but the mentality that you will get something for anything as well as something for nothing.
have to teach kids all the time that to earn their paycheck they gotta actually produce a profit , if they expect a paycheck for just showing up , ummmm they get the memo via reduced hours/pay. yeah I teach em how to make a profit and my turnover rate is low but goddammit the entitlement mentality is wearing the crap outta me , im aware everyone is indeed a special little snowflake but a s a great friend said to me , there is more to it than that
My wife has a Down’s Syndrome child. They engage in a lot of competitions and they all get a medal/ribbon. It makes him feel great! So, trophies for everyone only if you have Special Needs. Self esteem is not a Special Needs.