In most cases, this is going to go in the opposite direction. Someone is going to say, 'Why didn't my child get a trophy?' and they don't want the kids to be upset, they want people to come back ... and so it just sort of becomes part of what's expected.

Hilary Levey Friedman

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I had one child who would say to me about several of them. 'Well, I kind of purposely played in this easier one because I knew I would win and now I don't really count that as a real victory because I went in and I knew it was below my level,' and so kids know. They definitely know and so that's a dangerous thing to just think, 'Oh, you are going to get something all the time and everybody has to be a winner' because then how do you exist later on in life?

Hilary Levey Friedman