mine doesn't pull much either. He puts a lot of effort into soccer and mine craft and reads a lot of non fiction as well as fiction but he doesn't sit down and do hard maths without assistance (though he does wish maths was harder at school). But I didn't either, I just suffered school in silence and read lots of historical fiction. Even gifted 7/8 year olds can't be expected to run their own education. Some do, yes but I don't believe most do. I push a little but I don't think 15 minutes a day maths when it took you 3 minutes to do your homework is unreasinable or unusual.
