Kids always know the score, even when it's not being kept.
Perhaps this is news to James Harrison, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker who wrote a recent Instagram post that said he returned his kids' "participation" trophies because they hadn't earned them. His sons, ages 8 and 6, would get real trophies when they won real championships. And, anyway, how was he to raise boys to be men when they were given trophies just for trying?
And then the world went nuts. Much of the sporting press nodded in solemn agreement, as if a football player with a history of cheap shots is now somehow a paragon of proper parenting.