Who designed this schedule?

So many parents freak out about trying to make sure their kids 'keep up with the Joneses.' You even read stories about parents paying Ivy League amounts to send their kids to the 'right' pre-school for crying out loud. Parents are told to play Mozart to their fetuses. If a kid's not reading War and Peace by 1st grade, he's slapped (and it's a 'he' more often that not) with ADD or some other learning disability and pressured to get up to speed.

Now, a study shows that parents ought to just relax.

Truly smart children, despite their reputation for being ahead of their peers mentally, actually lag behind other kids in development of the "thinking" part of the brain, a new study reports.

The brain's outer mantle, or cortex, gets thicker, then thins during childhood and the teen years. The study said that in kids with superior intelligence, the cortex reaches its thickest stage a few years later than in other children.

So this begs the question: if smarter kids lag 'behind schedule' developmentally, maybe the 'schedule' of expectations needs to be revised.