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Indian two-year-old sets national archery record

bbc.co.uk

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> Dolly was conceived through surrogacy after the death of her brother, international archer and coach Cherukuri Lenin, in a road accident in 2010 reports said.

> Her father, Cherukuri Satyanarayana, said she had been trained since birth to be a champion.

> "You can't put too much pressure on children, they can be trained for a maximum of two or three hours a day," he said. "But Dolly comes from a family of archers so she's capable of a lot."

eeks. :(

Especially the third quote is almost unbelievable.

It sounds like how I'd raise a pokemon...

Just wait until she reaches her next evolution!

> My daughter achieved the feat we have been dreaming

Well you should be the ones to do it then.

What a sad story.

Oh come on. It's not THAT bad.

I don't even remember what I was doing at 2 (in fact most studies indicate this is impossible). This girl has the potential to live a pretty awesome life, and no one will F_k with her as well. She could even end up as this guy's prodigy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zGnxeSbb3g

It is that bad. Kids should not be used like this. It should be 100% obvious that this is the adults driving it, not the child. She's just being used to act out their dreams.

Not even dreams. It's PR. Daddy runs an "archery academy".

don't know why, but this reminded me of brave-new-world :(

she looks like 4 year old child.

Is this another India-vs-Pakistan dick size contest?

"A kid from our country got his MCSE at five years old!"

"Oh yeah? Well, a kid from our country got his MCSE, Cisco certification, and developed his first iPhone app at four and a half years old!"

Etc.

I do not think this is the case. The competition is intense in India and most often than not Indians compete with each other than Pakistanis. Relatively speaking the dick sizing between India and Pakistan is North-NorthWestren India vs Punjab (Paksitan) since they do share a border. For South India, Andhra Pradesh in this case, Pakistan is an abstract and most of the time, other Cricket matches do not care about Pakistan or its existence. So this is resounding NO. You can congratulate the Kid or you can diss the parenting but to oversimplify things that fit your simplistic mental models is unworthy of HN forum.

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