LaVonna Roth discusses how protecting kids from failure and pain—through participation trophies and constant praise—backfires. Without healthy struggles, children miss chances to build resilience, and rates of depression and suicide among youth keep climbing.
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, 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, and this is my interpretation, is there's an increasing rate of depression and suicides 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. 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.
