#42, as long as we both recognize there is a line, but that we're not sure where it's drawn, then sanity has been achieved. What all I've criticized American schools systems for, is still true. The danger of your attitude, is still true. Despite your assertions, you really don't know where any individual child lies on the spectrum of capability, UNTIL YOU SUBJECT THEM TO ACADEMIC TRIAL. An academic trial presumes to instruct. Only after they FAIL to achieve, do you have any rational basis for claiming said child is too young for the subject matter he was exposed to.
Of course, modern ghei-Liberal thinking demonizes any hint of passing on the concept of failure to children. Again, American children handled the concept of failure perfectly OK. It remains as an obvious conclusion that the modern population is simply coddled and mis-served thereby.
Bother to challenge your children, and with your loving support and intent, they'll be better off for it. Continue instead to follow some egghead's highly restricted ideas on child development (mental note: people usually enter the field of child development since they hate children!) and you'll end up undermining what your children are capable of. It's fucking elementary and it applies to all ages of people -- challenge is GOOD, pre-judging incapability is BAD. EPIC DUH!