Thanks for the warm welcome and the reassuring words. I appreciate both very much.

On this topic, I just finished reading an interesting book some of you might have see, Hothouse Kids. The author is a former GT kid and she seems to have a bit of a complex about it. Although some of her conclusions are sound (the need for expanding gifted identification to minority students), the overall tone of the book was that overbearing parents were pushing their kids due to their own warped motivations and ruining these kids childhoods.