[old and tired]

For me one of the most interesting elements of child prodigies is how very few of them ever grow up to be extraordinary adults.

Yup. And they've had their childhoods stolen from them by pushy adults.

I feel sorry for this kid.

[ilovesarah2012]

“But Esther isn’t all schoolwork all the time. “She is a normal 10-year-old girl,” Efe says. “She loves going to the park and playing with her friends. And she absolutely loves Frozen.”

[mom of young patriots]

That was my first thought. What happened to Sesame Street and Barbie and Legos and stuffed toys and the time to progress through the stages of childhood. College is brutal and so is the world and you need the intervening years to learn how to adjust mentally and emotionally.

This mother is awfully smug in thinking that any child can do this, too. That is no more true than saying every adult is capable of writing a thesis in engineering. She has no grasp on reality.