Nobody, the OP seems like recipe for disaster, things needs their balance. We can’t just roll around and say that all kids are amazing, great, perfect and their accomplishments are the best thing in the world all the time. If we do that we end up with a society of dull, inept. unable to collaborate, deal with hardship people.
I’m not saying you should psychologically obliterate children, I’m just saying they also need to be given bad feedback in honest ways and learn that the world isn’t all pink and participation medals.
Y’know, I keep hearing about these participation awards messing up kids but no one I talk to is able to demonstrate a single person that grew up with them and how the trophies messed them up. I feel it’s a condescending view of children that they don’t understand the implications of a ‘participation trophy’ when they get one. It’s not like they aren’t expected to do their work in school and their grading is an extension of how hard they work.
Who hurt you?
Nobody, the OP seems like recipe for disaster, things needs their balance. We can’t just roll around and say that all kids are amazing, great, perfect and their accomplishments are the best thing in the world all the time. If we do that we end up with a society of dull, inept. unable to collaborate, deal with hardship people.
I’m not saying you should psychologically obliterate children, I’m just saying they also need to be given bad feedback in honest ways and learn that the world isn’t all pink and participation medals.
This image says it all:
This is a pessimistic, almost nihilistic view of human nature and development.
Agreed. That participation rewards being handed out right and left it is not even funny.
Y’know, I keep hearing about these participation awards messing up kids but no one I talk to is able to demonstrate a single person that grew up with them and how the trophies messed them up. I feel it’s a condescending view of children that they don’t understand the implications of a ‘participation trophy’ when they get one. It’s not like they aren’t expected to do their work in school and their grading is an extension of how hard they work.