What BS. There are as many styles of parenting and educating 'gifted' kids as there are 'non-gifted' kids. If anything, the parenting paradigm I see most frequently (as the parent of a 'gifted' 9-year-old) trends towards pushing their kids harder.

Whoops... I missed the context entirely. I've recently been immersed in a project requiring Java & .NET interop, so I've had it on the brain.