DD7 hasn't shown enough passion about anything for a long enough time to worry DW and I that she'd develop into a prodigy, though she's certainly given us reasons to worry in the short term. For a while it was gymnastics, and images of the hours of practice and horrific injuries were flashing through our heads. Then it was cheer and tumble, with the horrific injuries that entails. Somewhere in there briefly was music, but risk-avoidant perfectionism nipped that in the bud pretty early. Now it's dance, and as she free-form dances in the living room every night, we take a look at Dance Moms and all the toxicity that entails.
Honestly, I'd be very unhappy to see my DD become a prodigy at anything, because she's already dealing with perfectionism issues, and most of the prodigal skills she'd be likely to pursue would only feed that.
And of course, being a middle-class, single-income family, the resources to pursue such gifts to their maximum are beyond our means.
So count me among the rare ones who'd be delighted NOT to raise a prodigy. Multipotentiality FTW.
