Jessica Duchen writes in today's The Independent about Faryl Smith, child prodigies, and the parents who push them:
Boys can seem more resilient than girls, perhaps because they aren’t generally exploited for their looks. Nobody took Daniel Barenboim’s photograph walking out of the sea in a wet t-shirt when he was 14, unlike Vanessa-Mae, nor draped him suggestively over a couch, unlike Harnoy.
Ew.