Hothousing would be you pushing the child to do the work, right? You'd have to bribe, convince, and the child doesn't really want to, but will because you have to push them to do it.

Where as for gifted/talented kids, they practically drive you crazy if you don't give them some challenging things to do -- they pull you along. They want to do the math, or write stories after stories, etc etc etc etc

smile I suppose the above is a simple black/white version. There are many shades of grey.