Originally Posted by Bostonian
The title has two possible meanings:

(1) Given that your child is a prodigy, how should you raise him?
(2) How should you raise your child so that he will be a prodigy?

I wonder if the ambiguity was intentional.

I'm thinking that it may well have been, as this was my exact initial thoughts on the title, as well.

We're like ultramarina around here. While I'm a fair advocate of push-parenting with kids who lack well-developed self-motivation...

well, I think that I've just watched Searching for Bobby Fischer one time too many to really get properly into the spirit of these things.

Oh, and we lack a certain amount of the requisite opportunity and means to be Amy Chua clones. That too, I suppose. LOL.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.