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It's so annoying when jealous or ignorant people presume a child has been pressured into advanced academic subjects.

Not all of them would complain that much with a stellar athlete.

We are an academically-minded family. My son would MUCH RATHER do any kind of intellectual activity than do sports. In late elementary he was reading at a 12th grade level, and doing advanced math. Not because we pushed him,[b] but because we think topics like these are fun and interesting - we unwittingly created an environment where he could like such things.[/b]

Do you understand, OP? Please stop criticizing other families like this - it makes you seem very insecure.

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I was with you until you went there.

You can't take credit for something, and also call people who claim that you caused something ignorant and jealous.  You need to choose.[/quote]

Gosh, you really want to find fault, don't you? It's joint credit, to be perfectly truthful. 
Most parents unconsciously project a fear of higher math onto their kids. We didn't, so I think we can take some credit, thank you very much. 
We also applaud my son's efforts! Although it's not really effort when you BEG to do it, and could do it all day, is it? You sure do have a hard time understanding that these things can be a pleasure!

Predisposition (his and ours) also plays an important role, and that's not credit, it's the luck of the draw to have passed down some genes.

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