Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Is this kind of push parenting COMMONPLACE?? I shudder to think that maybe it is much more common than I'd thought.

Well, my DW is pretty insistent that we get both our children into the "gifted" program so that we don't have to pull them out and send them to private schools.

However, that's so that they avoid things that will lead to deviance, social dysfunction, and laziness more than proving that they're "really smart".

But to answer your question,

Yes.

As in Push Parenting -----> Gifted = Winning!