Mozart's Childhood

I was suprised to read that Mozart had a good family and a good childhood. Usually when you read the history of famous artists, especially those from so long ago, you read that they were abused, either mentally or physically, or they had some form of torn home. However, for Mozart this wasn't true.
His father, a composer, was very devoted to his mother. Both were kind and loved their children very much. His mother gave birth to seven children, only two of which survived to adulthood. Maria Anna, born in 1751, and Wolfgang, born five years later. Leopold, Wolfgang's father, wrote a letter to his friend in Augsburg to inform him gleefully of his son's birth.
From the time the children were very young Leopold wrote music for them. When Maria Anna was seven Leopold was very glad to find that she had a large amount of talent for the piano. Wolfgang was also very good, and starting at age three he often would sit at the piano by himself, carefully choosing chords that were pleasing to him.
Wolfgang and Maria Anna both continued to be taught by their father, and the boy was always glad to please him.
By the time Mozart was 6 he could play five pieces, plus one small six measure piece that he himself had composed. Leopold let his court career fall apart, instead devoting his time to teaching his children the music that they so apparently loved. When Wolfgang was six years old, his father took he and Maria Anna on a small European tour, in which they played before the Elector of Bavaria.
It wasn't long before Leopold decided to take his family to Vienna, at that point considered to be the most cultural city in Europe.