I think the original post describing the other mom was very weird- I mean, how do they know for sure that in 7 years, your child will be the only competition for the scholarship?
Yeah. Good point. HS has a lot more smarties than Middle School. 1 or 2 per middle school means 4-10 in HS. In addition, other kids will mature in HS and become focused as well.
We are in a heavily "Tiger Mom" area. My son's best friend in third grade is Chinese and goes to Chinese school each week, one hour violin, and 2 hours piano every day! The boy seems heavily depressed all of the time. He is not a dumb kid but not as smart, probably, as his parents hope he is. I just don't think it is worth it to make your child so profoundly miserable all of the time like that.
WOW! I agree.
But I can see it.
Two parents of six year olds at Mr W's old school made comments about him as a 3 year old taking piano lessons with a 6 year old to the Piano teacher. They seemed to think their kids should be "ahead" of him and in the "advanced" group.
One mom asked DW how much we "work with him" and just did not believe that we don't do much at all. (And feel guilty that we don't..) Heck, we can't stop him from singing all the time, picking out CDs at the store, or telling us which songs he wants to listen to in the car.
