Here is my fear with the "parents know best" theory. I think parents who think that and apply it to hothouse must feel that they have acquired a wealth of knowledge and it would be best to pass all that on to the child so that the child can stand on the shoulders of giants and see higher, achieve more. However, I can never do that because then I would feel like I am the limiting factor in how much dd can achieve. It is like I am setting the bars and every time dd jumps the bars that keep going higher and higher, dd feels like she has accomplished. But if I never set the bars, who knows how high she can jump and how quickly she can go from just jumping to soaring. So why am I setting those bars? The fear that by hot housing my child, I will limit her potential is really what's keeps me from doing it. I want to sit back and enjoy watching my dd become all she can and all she wants to.