This is a must watch for any parent involved in youth sports.I have heard some good things about the segment and it promises to be very enlightening.How much is too much,can it every be to much for your child to get the edge?
Tomorrow on HBO’s Real Sports Frank Deford takes a look at the lengths to which parents are going trying to produce athletic wunderkinder.
From HBO’s website ( http://www.hbo.com/realsports/stories/2009/episode.146.s3.html )
“In today’s ultra-competitive sports landscape, parents are going farther than ever to produce athletes with the ability to excel at the next level. Whether through private coaching, practicing almost nonstop, DNA testing to predict which sports a child is best suited to play or even selecting sperm donations from top athletes, parents seem willing to go as far as possible to produce children who obtain college scholarships or lucrative professional contracts. Are these parents pushing their kids to extremes, living vicariously through them or just doing everything within their power to help their children succeed? Correspondent Frank Deford investigates.”
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