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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No child is "really into classical music" at age 4.  The truly gifted ones do learn quickly how to please their parents.  I do find it's often helpful to remind fellow parents of this.  [/quote]

Well, he was 3 and annoyed me for a year to take lessons in his instrument of choice, declaring that he didn't like any music apart from classical (and not all classical, baroque is apparently not in favor, romantic and Russian is everything).
Also, he loves the history of music CDs we have at home, and can spend hours listening to opera arias on Youtube.

Please recognize that many children know what they want really early. It may be correlated with a high IQ, which is probably why you're being all weird about it, but that's neither here not there. What parents notice is that they're being hounded for something. It wouldn't have occurred to me to pay good money for serious instrument lessons for a preschooler, for goodness' sake.[/quote]

While my preschooler wasn't particularly into classical music, she was into math.  She played with numbers in her head like a favorite toy.   Before she started K, she had figured out multiplication, even though she didn't know that's what it was called.

She learned basically nothing in math at school K-2, but she was happy playing math games in class and that was fine with me.  By third grade the repetition of doing essentially the same thing she'd already done K-2 in the spiraling curriculum got to be too much for her and she needed the opportunity to learn more.  When she approached her teacher and was turned away, I had to come up with something to spark her interest.  My child, who had been so ravenous to learn new things on every subject before K that I'd had to pry her out of the library with promises that we could always come back and get more books, was shutting down.

It was really hard to keep up with her, although sometimes she felt like coasting and just doing her schoolwork, which was fine with me, because it gave me a break.  I'm not a math person.  I wish she'd been happy doing her class work.  I had originally envisioned my role as answering the occasional homework question.  I know everybody's heard of pushy parents and I'm not arguing.  However, not every advanced kid has been pushed there.  Some have gotten there pulling their parents behind them.
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