00:00Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison made huge waves on social media with his most
00:07recent Instagram post for wanting to give back his son's athletic participation trophies
00:11because they didn't earn real ones. His caption read,
00:16I came home to find out that my boys received two trophies for nothing,
00:20participation trophies. While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do
00:24and will encourage them till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until they
00:28earn a real trophy. He continues, I'm sorry. I'm not sorry for believing that everything in life
00:33should be earned. And I'm not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they
00:37are entitled to something just because they tried their best. Okay. So is this a slay? Because
00:43James is teaching his sons the fundamentals of life. You're not always going to get rewarded for
00:47behavior that is essentially expected of you. Or is this a shade? Participation awards act as
00:52positive reinforcement and there's no harm in that. All right, here we go. On the count of three,
00:56is this slate or shade? One, two, three. Oh, we have a slate, a shade, and a shade. Okay,
01:01Laura, we'll start with you. Why is this a slate? Okay, listen, this was my daddy. That's my daddy
01:04all day. That's how I was raised. My dad would be like, oh, you fell? Come over here so I can pick
01:09you up. I was like, no, he definitely was like, look, that's cute, but you have to work harder.
01:13And honestly, that's how I was raised. I always felt like, and it actually encouraged me to work
01:18harder when I saw other people win. And I'd be like, you know what? That's going to be next time.
01:21Let me learn where I failed. Let me learn from my mistakes and let me bust my butt so next time
01:26I'm going to be that winner. That's fair enough. That's fair enough. Ray?
01:30I said it was shade simply because they participate, they get up, they're on time,
01:35they go to practice. You got to spend all that money for uniforms. I might have been the best
01:39player. They might have sucked, but I did my part. I feel like the team should still get some type of
01:45recognition for participating and putting forth the effort, even though they're not the overall
01:50champion. Okay. So to take the trophy away, no. My daddy would have been like, well, you won an award for
01:55getting up and eating breakfast. You know what I mean? Your daddy sounds like my daddy.
02:00You paid your bills, that's what you're supposed to do.
02:03Abiola, you have a shade?
02:04I say shade 100%. Now, I'm from a family where if you got a 95, they said, what happened to the
02:09other five points?
02:10Uh-oh. Right.
02:10However, as a coach, as a life coach, I have to say that, you know, yes, we do get empowerment
02:17from accomplishments. However, James, the way is not to shame your children. Take it up
02:21with the school board.
02:22Oh, right.
02:23She said, take it up with the school board.
02:24Because the other kids are going to still have their participation trophy and they're not
02:27going to have anything.
02:28They're going to feel left off.
02:29But I think it's just your job as a parent to explain to them why you're doing this.
02:33You know, so I can see each his own conversation.
02:35And keep the trophies.
02:36She's like, keep the trophies.
02:38Okay.
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