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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8666299" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>We definitely got participation medals for youth soccer back when I played in the mid 80s. I can say this with certainty because my mom just handed me a box of things she had saved from when I was a kid and they were in there.</p><p></p><p>Now that I'm old and have my own kid who is almost grown up, I've come to believe that participation "trophies" are mostly for the parents rather than the kids. The kids don't care - they know who wins and who loses and what a "thanks for participating" ribbon really means. In fact the kids are some of the ones who might be the most openly hostile about the whole thing - at the end of a tournament nobody is deluded into thinking that their "participation medal" is the equivalent of the medals the winning teams get. It's the parents who want to have some kind of artifact to hang onto and put into a scrapbook or display case or even just a shoebox to have as a memento of when their kid did something. A reminder of when their kid was 8 and played teeball or 6 and played soccer and how proud you were to see them out there just running their heart out giving it their all even if their team didn't win.</p><p></p><p>I don't think my kid has looked at any of the "thanks for participating" tchotchkes they got for playing youth sports when they were in elementary school. In fact I remember them being one of the kids who was openly hostile about the whole idea after one particular losing event. Conversely, my wife has every single one of them saved in her memento box, and as the kid is now a surly teenager instead of a surly elementary school student I can kind of see the appeal of saving those memories like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8666299, member: 19857"] We definitely got participation medals for youth soccer back when I played in the mid 80s. I can say this with certainty because my mom just handed me a box of things she had saved from when I was a kid and they were in there. Now that I'm old and have my own kid who is almost grown up, I've come to believe that participation "trophies" are mostly for the parents rather than the kids. The kids don't care - they know who wins and who loses and what a "thanks for participating" ribbon really means. In fact the kids are some of the ones who might be the most openly hostile about the whole thing - at the end of a tournament nobody is deluded into thinking that their "participation medal" is the equivalent of the medals the winning teams get. It's the parents who want to have some kind of artifact to hang onto and put into a scrapbook or display case or even just a shoebox to have as a memento of when their kid did something. A reminder of when their kid was 8 and played teeball or 6 and played soccer and how proud you were to see them out there just running their heart out giving it their all even if their team didn't win. I don't think my kid has looked at any of the "thanks for participating" tchotchkes they got for playing youth sports when they were in elementary school. In fact I remember them being one of the kids who was openly hostile about the whole idea after one particular losing event. Conversely, my wife has every single one of them saved in her memento box, and as the kid is now a surly teenager instead of a surly elementary school student I can kind of see the appeal of saving those memories like that. [/QUOTE]
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