Originally Posted by cdfox
Still, I feel bad for the daughter and other children like her. Their overbearing parents and pressure put on them will doom them if they're not careful.

Yep, my son made it very clear to me a few years ago that he was not a trained monkey for me to show off. So I fight off the temptation whenever it comes up.

It's made it a lot easier to introduce accelerations when I learned to follow his lead and his enthusiasm for life.

I ask people if I can ask how much they weigh or for their Social Security number when they ask how much Native American I am. It does make people realize that they are in fact asking a very personal question and one fraught with big issues of identity in a vein similar to trying to compare gifted children.