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Silicon Valley start-up will rank your sports aptitude and determine whether you could be a contender. 
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- Got Game item - recipe for disaster!
- by john_g_brooks February 10, 2006 1:26 AM PST
- Give a tool such as this to 'ambitious' parents and more Little League Warfare will break out!
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- guess
- by reedsr February 10, 2006 7:26 AM PST
- let me guess you were either
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- More possible outcomes
- by grantdavis February 10, 2006 9:51 AM PST
- 3. A child that is rated at only 'moderately' inept to sports makes it a point to practice as much as possible to overcome what they've been told is their genetic flaw. Regardless of what their parents or peers say.
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(3 Comments)Parents will test their (suffering) offspring for sport suitability with one of two outcomes:
the 'natural couch potatoes' (yes - not every kid can be a star!) will then become disappointing. Do you REALLY want fat and malco kids to add poor self-image to their other limitations?
alternatively, the kid DOES match the parameters for (say) beach volley ball but has NO wish to take up this particular sport. So - more warfare between parents and kid.
Bad idea!
A: the natural couch potato
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B: no good at sports growing up?
4. Children realize a little ealier that their fantasy of becoming a pro athlete probably is unattainable, and focus on education as our children generally should.
5. Parents realize their children aren't these natural star athletes they imagine, and do use the results to help the child focus their atheletic development in areas and manners that appropriate for the individual child as opposed to our school's P.E. teachers making every kid attempt the same exercise routines.
I agree first impression is that parents are too concerned about figuring out what their child 'should do in life' and forcing them that direction. But this machine is hardly the 'recipe for disaster'. Obviously the test 'results' from children must be portrayed as only a current assessment and that as children grow into their bodies coordination and athletic ability can continue to develop, or regress.