Fill in the Blanks Too much, too soonOnline version Read and complete the missing the words. by MaNuel Btz 1 Educational children exhausted Saturday talented Maths four tutorials Newcastle been thinking Very intelligent children can find life difficult . When Jonas White , a seven - year - old boy from , achieved the top grade in a GCSE * Maths exam recently , ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ; his parents were delighted . But when it was revealed that Jonas had had hours of intensive teaching every morning for nine months , 'hothousing' suddenly became a hot topic again . An increase in the number of intensive tutoring centres in the UK reflects this growing trend to push to take exams early . professionals warn of the dangers of hothousing . They all agree that there are some children who are born extremely gifted and , but that parents should not put too much pressure on their children to be the best at everything . Recent research suggests that this stops children for themselves , and such children can end up going off the rails because they have been pushed too hard . Jenni Halliday left school with top grades at the age of 12 and went to university to do a degree . Her father stayed with her there and accompanied her to all her lectures and . By the time she started her second year , Jenni claims she hadn't made any friends . She worked all the time and she was . 'The pressure got to me in the end and I couldn't go on' , she said . 'It suddenly dawned on me that everyone around me was seven or eight years older , and that they were all having a great time going out and enjoying their courses . I wasn't doing either , so I left' . Jenni has doing a bit of tutoring part - time since she left and is trying to decide whether to go back to university or not .
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