"is your child happy at school" - advertisement at yahoo
an apparatus to make a child happy at school as well as afterschool
Parents have kids wear a thing that meeps a every few hours then collects data rather like with published experience sample monitoring psychology procedures [link] that use(d)
electronics
the kid tells or keypads the computer how they feel, the parents compare how their kid feels to a database of all the kids at school with a graph, parents then use parenting to guide kids to new activities, negative peer avoidance, a different school or medication to create a being a kid gestalt that is way above average
I like the form factor of a springy drawstring terminator ----(((((O-)--- that you squeeze when it buzzes
or the sympa thizzer might look like a pocket tamogotchi, it should have a fingerprint reader to measure that it was the actual person plus it should do visual recognition of mood like the Dr anbar ccd digital emotion imaging to detect mood otherwise people could just tell the kid to act happy verifying the kid is happy is the thing
if I found out that my child was at the upper third of positive mood at school I would be thrilled then parent towards guidance to the upper tenth of happiness
technically I think I would have to have children first