Originally Posted by eema
I also wonder whether we, as parents, start our kids too young on many activities.

Good point. It can be easy when kids are young to get stuck in a fearful place which can lead to unfairly labeling kids with character traits like too lazy to try and then imagining a terrible future where they never grow up to be responsible people. Even if we only do that silently in our heads it can be damaging because it can guide us to pushing unnecessarily and whether we speak our thoughts or not kids, especially gifted ones, can be very good at picking up on that. I'd be much less worried about a six year old not working hard then I would about them believing they were a disappointment to their parents because they don't work hard.