Christie JungeA Plus Solutions Inc. · CEO | Profit First Professional

#MUIYB Audio Short, LaVonna Roth-The Mindset To Achieve

11 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief audio interview, the hosts discuss the impact of modern parental practices that shield children from failure, such as giving trophies to all participants regardless of performance. Speaker A argues that this “trophy culture” eliminates the experience of loss, creating a mismatch where children face intense performance pressure without having learned how to cope with setbacks. The conversation links this dynamic to rising rates of depression, suicide, and other negative mental‑health outcomes. Speaker B concurs, emphasizing that avoiding failure deprives kids of the opportunity to build resilience, and that learning to recover from mistakes is essential for healthy development.

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there's all these parental mechanisms set up so that kids don't feel the pain of loss or losing. Like, you know, everyone gets the trophy, uh, including the losing team. On the flip side, there's so much pressure on kids that there is a— at least according to this book, at least in this is my interpretation— is there's an increasing rate of depression and, uh, and suicides and, and other horrible consequences of this lack of stress and this disproportionate stress in this category of performance. Have you— what's your sense around that?
I believe wholeheartedly that we have done some harm. Uh, you know, it's because what happens is when you make a mistake and you mess up, right, or you lose, for example, you actually have to figure out some resiliency there. So you're