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I have heard about "the pressure cooker" environment of NOVA and now seeing also MD parents from a very, very young age.  It is important to set the positive atmosphere and rules for learning in your home right from the start when children are young.  However, it is also very key NOT  to put the child's self-worth in a parent's eye so focused on the grades earned.  Here I am seeing folks who watch for a trend between even two or three assignments...really sad.  A child "learns labels" ever so early.  A friend has young twins turning five and one already is saying "She does not do XXX as well as or as fast as her sister."  And it is true the innate intuitiveness and perception of one is ahead of her peers.  BUT, the parent is very careful right from the start asking how to maintain the self-esteem of both.

Be sure to keep an eye out for what "distractions" might be in their studying environment at home such as in-room tvs, cds, phone, computers whatever that are natural distractions. Also, consider how your child can handle any outside activities that "you" may have them in or let them sign up for.  Some kids can't be out and running to and from this and that before and after dinner all year long.  Maybe have a talk right from the start in the early years about what is sensible to try considering closely a young child's need for sleep, time to chill after school, time to explore interests - arts, music, sports balanced against your focus on All A's every day.  And most importantly, time to just be a child........

Otherwise, two things might happen - they will close your voice out on grades and/or on even other more important aspects/pressures of their lives.  Or they will come to depend so much on Mommie and Daddy that they will never learn to be independent and be on your doorstep forever  emotionally or otherwise.  And children within a household can vary in their abilities and needs to reach goals AND this also needs to be balanced out as best as one can.  
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