These problems used to be associated with prodigies who were hothoused by their overbearing and ambitious parents (e.g. John Stewart Mill who had a mental breakdown)
Mill was a famous philosopher. Wikipedia cites a source saying he was "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century". If hothousing increases both the chance of eminence and failure, is it wrong?
We accelerated our eldest child and youngest child by a year so that at each age they would have a more challenging curriculum and so that they could start their careers a year earlier. The eldest is spending two weeks this summer at a full-day math camp. I know that even lots of educated upper-class parents think these decisions are weird -- they would never consider early kindergarten.
"Hothousing" is bad by definition, but it's not easy to define.
