Originally Posted by indigo
Painting with the brush provided by information in the links to articles on hot-housing, by experts.

I suggest you read your own sources again, then, because this clear-cut statement from your first one says nothing about intrinsic reward:

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Definition: Hothouse children are children whose parents push them into learning more quickly and earlier than is appropriate for the cognitive age of the children.

You're putting too much emphasis on this statement, which is poorly written, and I suspect, based on the examples given, the author intended it to be directed towards toddler and pre-K age groups:

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Gifted children are not generally hothouse children even though they are learning material more quickly and earlier than most children their age. However, the learning is child-centered, which means the desire to learn comes from the child, not the parent.

The above is true for the years prior to 1st grade. Once they start pursuing a formal education, every child, no matter how intrinsically motivated, is going to find something they'd rather not learn. Making them learn it anyway is not hothousing.

Finally, the appeal to authority is a fallacy, and the term "experts" loses some of its authority in reference to About.com.