As a child, I played sports. I played Baseball ( which I loved), soccer (which I hated, but have grown to love), basketball (which I sucked at), and I took karate (which I also sucked at). In each one of those sports, we never won gold, yet i have a collection of trophies perched atop my window sill commemorating my participation in those sports. The more I think about it, the more it irks me, the more it angers me. It's rather patronizing, in my opinion, to not have earned something, but have it given to you anyway. It makes the trophy relatively meaningless, so what's the point in getting one? I suppose that's where my enormous sense of pride comes from. I don't want anything handed to me if I didn't earn it. Let the kids cry, it will pass. It will build character, it will make them try harder, do better. If you shield them from that, you're failing as a parent.
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[–] Phuffu 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
I still have all my trophies from when I played baseball. I got one every year. In 3rd grade I won best sportsmanship because I was the worst on the team. It's ok though, life it what it is. We all think of ourselves as normal, even if we were raised differently from kids 30 years ago we wouldn't know. As a teenager, when an adult tells me that the way they grew up was better I just laugh. I can't possibly know how they were raised and even though they think they know what it's like to grow up in the 2000's they really don't. My generation will go on to do great things just like the ones before us, people are overly worried, it will all work out.
[–] ironhand00 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
An perhaps you believe everything will "work out" for your generation without effort exactly because you were given everything as a child. Doing great things requires effort*. Unless, of coarse, one just redefines what 'Great Things' means.
*Statement does not apply to everyone. Sorry, life isn't fair.
[–] Phuffu ago
I find it hard to be so down. I look around my high school and I see a lot of really smart kids, my GPA is in the top 40% or 50% of the class, so it's not like I'm stupid, just average. To be fair I go to a really good public school, but I just don't see how we can fail. People always criticize my generation, but we aren't that bad.