Of course-- and Tallulah, it's my experience that the behavior is mostly dominated (locally) by not the parents who are first-generation immigrants (though we know a few of them who do), but that it is disproportionately parents who would be considered-- white, advantaged, upper SES, etc. etc. who are doing this sort of thing.


I tend to recognize them by their sheer avidness when they discover that DD is so radically accelerated. I often use that as a filter, in fact-- anyone that gets that over-zealous gleam in their eye and is more interested in ME than in HER at that point... well, in pumping me for the recipe for the secret sauce, I mean-- I tend to know.

They aren't the least bit conflicted about it, as you note. They just see it as The Way to WIN.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.