Sorry to clarify - I am sure any parent of a gifted child may get accused of hothousing, and that this may happen more often the more gifted and more overt their child's skills are. But if your child does learn very independently and is a leaper then at least you can be very comfortable that it IS all your child. Where as if your child is more of the thinks-great-thoughts-but-needs-help-with-the-basic-facts type, then you may actually need to do work with them to enable the progress they want to make - which might then leave you wondering if those hot housing accusations are justified.