...No one!
When Participation trophies are passed out to everyone, then no one wins. If a team wins a game shouldn't they get the reward? Does the losing team actually deserve a trophy? I don't think so. Disappointment is part of life.
Anyone who always gets what they want, when they want it, never learns how to handle disappointment. Participation trophies teach us to feel entitled and that effort isn't necessary. It also fails to give us the tools needed to handle hardships.
If we are willing to learn from adversity then we will become better people for it. Learning from our problems helps us handle life when things get tough. So, in an effort to make a child’s life easier, participation trophies have done the opposite. It may be easier for them at the moment, at least ones who lose, but will be worse for them in the future.
I’m not advocating to deliberately invoke problems on a child (or anyone for that matter), Life will do that without any effort from us. None of us enjoy adversity but that is how we grow. If we want to be the best we can be then we need to learn how to cope and move forward and we need to teach our children the same. We need to allow for disappointments in life and help each other work through them.
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