There is such double standard when it comes to bragging about kids in sports, music, or just about anything other than academics. For some reason, it is okay to brag that "Junior made the all-star team and is going to be on the travel team because he is so highly advanced at baseball," but if I said "6 yo DS is being instructed by the gifted teacher at school, gets higher level math sheets and reads high school level science books for fun," I would be ostracized.
Instead I have to teach my children not to tell anyone that they are in the gifted program so as not to hurt other's feelings, and when people ask how they are doing in school I just give vague answers. The real answers are just too complicated.
