There is a lot of opinions out about participation trophies. However, opinions don’t help me much. Participation trophies are highly controversial and really depend a lot of parenting style. Thus, I feel a lot of my sources contain too much opinion. I would like to dig deeper and find more legit studies about what giving kids trophies for showing up actually does to them later in their life, as well as what it does at an early age. The era of trophies for breathing is fairly new which makes these elongated studies difficult to find. My sister is a fourth grade teacher, though, and I am going to ask her to record responses from her students when only the “winning” team receives an award.