Perhaps it's just the group of people I'm around, but we often brag about how smart our kids are to each other. I suppose it's mostly just luck, but I'm friends with two women (we were all pregnant at the same time) and our 3 boys (all 9, 3rd grade) are all amazing readers! We often chat with each other about what books to get them, about how the school is basically failing to teach them anything when it comes to english... Their kids are also good at math.. I don't think they've had their 2 tested, though.

(What's extra funny is all 3 of us happened to get pregnant with our 2nd at the same time and all 3 of the younger kids are like crazy people, and couldn't give two craps about school work, lol.)

~amy