Originally Posted by Ashley
Hothousing parents tend to know that they are doing it - because it is harder to get the same results out of their kids than it is for the parents of kids who are excelling at something.

Not necessarily. Zen Scanner made a point about an effort spectrum earlier that I agree with. A gifted hothoused child might still learn a skill more easily than a NT talented child [ETA: or another gifted child, even]. It can be tricky to disentangle the fast learning and intrinsic motivation of giftedness from hothousing on the output side of the equation. To my thinking, the relevant comparator is the child's ability to learn relative to his own best performance when not pushed, not an external comparator.


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