But this is the Lakers, and they’re still below .500, with a complicated dynamic of their win-now team being filled with young players that fans have been told are future stars even while they’re still developing, which means that Walton can’t win with his decisions.

After reading the article, “Greek Mythology: Sources,”

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Showing up to work, attending class, completing homework and trying my best at sports practice are expected of me, not worthy of an award.

I believe that we should change how we reward children. Trophies should be given out for first, second and third; participation should be recognized, but celebrated with words and a pat on the back rather than a trophy.

If every soccer player receives a trophy for merely showing up to practice and playing in games, the truly exceptional players are slighted.

Trophies used to be awarded only to winners, but are now little more than party favors: reminders of an experience, not tokens of true achievement.

Trophies for all convey an inaccurate and potentially dangerous life message to children: We are all winners.

These are the foundations of a long path to potential success, a success that is not guaranteed no matter how much effort I put in.

We begin to expect awards and praise for just showing up — to class, practice, after-school jobs — leaving us woefully unprepared for reality.

Today the dozens of trophies, ribbons and medals sit in a corner of my room, collecting dust. They do not mean much to me because I know that identical awards sit in other children’s rooms all over town and probably in millions of other homes across the country.

And for kids with low self-esteem, undeserved praise doesn’t help them, either. Research has found that kids with low self-esteem believe they can’t live up to their own hype, so they withdraw even further.

In a longitudinal study, when parents regularly overpraised their children’s performances, their children were more likely to be narcissistic two years later.

We must focus on process and progress, not results and rewards.

(In a study of Gold Medal Olympians, they said a previous loss was key to their championships.)

Thus letting kids lose, or not take home the trophy, isn’t about embarrassing children. It’s about teaching them it can take a long time to get good at something, and that’s all right.

This is a destructive message

If children always receive a trophy – regardless of effort or achievement – we’re teaching kids that losing is so terrible that we can never let it happen.

Therefore, instead of blowing a team’s budget on participation trophies, spend that money on kids’ and coaches’ skill development. Or donate the money to kids who can’t afford the basic equipment they need to develop their own skills.

Some claim that constant awards improve children’s self-esteem, and, once kids have high self-esteem, they’ll achieve more.

A recent study found if parents thought failure was debilitating, their kids adopted that perspective. If parents believed overcoming failure and mistakes made you stronger, then their children believed it, too.

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We say to girls, you should aim to be successful, but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten The Man."

"Because I am a female, I am expected to aspire to marriage," Adichie says. "I am expected to make my choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Marriage can be... a source of joy and love and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?"

Now it seems the writer's words have themselves inspired an uptempo feminist anthem from one of the biggest names in pop music.