@RichLowry column on kids receiving participation trophies. Teaching youth how to deal with failure is key to their development #MikeOnline
Tue, Aug 18, 2015
Rich Lowry writes, “Participation — and effort — should be its own reward. No one gave us trophies when my Little League team scuffled to a pathetic losing season on the dusty neighborhood ballfield. We participated, we got humiliated, and we moved on, having indubitably established what James Harrison said of his sons’ unearned trophies: “Sometimes your best is not enough.”










