The boy and his teammates got their trophies last night. Great job, thanks for playing and all that sort of thing.
Afterwards, the boy was wondering if he could use the trophy like money. The parents all had a good laugh from that one. The realization that all he could do with it was set it on his dresser just wasn’t satisfying apparently.
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Hopefully he does not get presented with a ceremonial “Key to the City” any time soon…it will take years for him to be consoled.
Hilarious!
After he’d moved on, a bunch of us were wisecracking like that- stuff like:
“Is this a Transformer or something?”
and
“When and where can I hock this, Mom”
Well … the real lesson is learning that the value of an award is NOT the tangible symbol of the medal or trophy … how do you teach him that ??
You attach that “award” to victory in real competition that required painstaking work to achieve. Once the “award” is associated with that type of an achievement, it will always serve as a reminder of what it took to earn it. Just another reason why baseball, in all its forms, is simply a nice activity for the backyard, he is already well aware that achievement in baseball is not really an achievement. I can’t blame him for wanted to disassociate with the trophy.
Before he went to bed last night, I talked to him a little about the trophy. I tried to explain that it was a reward for making a commitment to something and then seeing it through. That he went to all the practices and games that he could and that’s what he should remember about his t-ball.
He is already starting to understand the concept of victory- I don’t think he’ll need trophies to affirm that.