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I believe it's due to the type of people who live in wealthy, intellectual, competitive areas like ours. Once they have kids, the competitive mindset takes over, and they believe their kids have to be brilliant at something, if not everything.

My friend's husband was convinced his gymnast daughter would get a scholarship. Then she was dropped from the team, [b]started ballet, and now he's convinced she's going to be a ballet star.[/b]

We try to avoid those subjects when he's around. He'll look you straight in the eye, and say in an awed voice: "she's REALLY talented". Oh God.

My kids are talented in some areas, but it has never occurred to me to elevate them on a pedestal and *tell other people*. If they really are, it will show, and there is no need for words!
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It could happen! I know a girl who was a gymnast and now dances with a professional ballet company. She loved the ballet they had to take to be on the gymnastics team and switched over to just ballet, and now she does that for a living. A lot of the skills that make a good gymnast translate well to ballet. 
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That's exactly what's throwing this father off. His daughter came into ballet with all the skills of a gymnast, and has progressed quickly in the basic classes. But ballet starts its own special level of hell en pointe, and that's when reality will sink in. Oh well.
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