Abstract
What is required to produce a 6-year-old beauty queen. a 7year-old pilo t. a I4-year-old Olympic gold medalist gymnast. a l S-year-old champion ice hockey player. a 16-year-old Rachmaninoff virtuoso. a 12-year-old movie actor, or a 15year-old university student? We may admire, envy. or even attempt to emulate these children and their parents. Nevertheless. medical and mental health professionals should also consider the realistic dangers and potential costs children may incur in the process of fostering their precociousness and exceptional talents. In this article, we review the potential problems these children face by conceptualizing a spectrum of achievement by proxy (ABP) behavior. (Ogilvie et al., 1998; Tofler et al., 1998).
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