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Do Our Kids Get Too Many Trophies?
momversation.com - 10/9/2009
Do Our Kids Get Too Many Trophies?
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When is an award not really an award?  When everyone gets one.  Sure, we don't want our kids to feel bad because they didn't receive a trophy at the end-of-the-year softball banquet.  But is the solution really to give out pity prizes?  Because let's face it, kids are ...

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Momversation: Do our kids get too many trophies?
Parent Hacks — Do our kids get too many trophies? Guess what my answer is? Alicia Ybarbo and Mary Ann Zoellner, authors of Today's Moms, kick off the conversation. I'm not sure if the autoplay issue has been resolved yet, so rather than embed the video here, I invite you to watch and comment at Momversation.com. Related: My past Momversations

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