child genius

tigger2 · Post by **tigger2** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:13 pm

anybody watching this?

just seen a 6yr old wee boy do a test and come out with an IQ of about 170

MRpunchinella · Post by **MRpunchinella** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:27 am

Saw some of that, the small chinese girl who should be growing like any other kid doing kid stuff - fantastic that she is so talented, but any child that speaks like that at her age is heading for serious problems later.

unless she lives in a bubble speaking and living with adults....or other gifted kids.

Skyenet · Post by **Skyenet** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:19 pm

Through working with young children at Nursery and Primary School, I found the programme interesting. I agree that many are going to have problems later in life.

The chinese girl went through a powerpoint presentation to introduce herself and I thought a funny comment was when she said this is my life so far, becuase I am not dead yet. Maybe she said it just in case any stupid people were listening and didn't know what "life so far" meant

I found the young boy who was good at chess quite funny and more down to earth. Just a shame that his teacher is a computer and that he hardly has any contact with children anymore.

Another boy was into philosophy and had many a view on life

I thought he was good in some of his definition and interpretation of perfection with the Mensa tester. His parents were really finding the constant battle of wits with his views and attitude hard going.

The family of four young child geniuses were certainly different. One shot showed them all sitting straight, reading books in a sitting room. One was reading the Bible , another Shakespeare, and one a UK Atlas (maybe visions of becomming a routemaster). They seemed like perfect model children with not a hair out of place, well spoken and very good all round manners, yet they just didn't seem natural at all. Of all the chld genius parents on the programme, their mother was quite a pain I thought with her expectations of them.

The young boy who had published a book was quite a character. He loved talking and certainly had some command of the English language. He also loved creating culinary dishes and I thought it was quite funny when he put down some fancy Duck dish to his young sister who took one look at it and burst out crying.

After watching the programme and the issues in having a Genius child I am glad that I have a reasonably normal child who may not be very good at anything in particular, but is fun to live with.

r055 · Post by **r055** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:52 pm

Its a strange one... I didnt watch it, but these things do sadden me as the parents tend to be really pushy.

I know its a bit different, but the Michael JAckson scenario of not having a normal childhood just encourages people to grow up to be loonies!

Its one thing to be proud of your child and their achievements, but farming them to be superkids is a bit much.

The BBC Child of our time programme was really interesting in the early years where you seen how the family background and interaction with other children affected their development.

Jeesus! this is a bit deep for a Friday afternoon!

cla5h · Post by **cla5h** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:08 pm

"The family of four young child geniuses were certainly different...their mother was quite a pain..."
Aye, yer no kiddin, but did you see the faither? Jeez.

There was something funny going on with them; did you notice they were the only ones to refuse the mensa test?

Reminded me of that wee boy who was on Wogan years ago, with the plummy voive. He was into antiques and whatever. Anyroad he grew up to be a transgender (and I think he even topped himself recently) but it came out that all the stuff about him being a genius was made up; it was all a sham, where his abilities had been talked up well above what he was actually capable of.

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:58 pm

scottydog wrote:"The family of four young child geniuses were certainly different...their mother was quite a pain..."
Aye, yer no kiddin, but did you see the faither? Jeez.

There was something funny going on with them; did you notice they were the only ones to refuse the mensa test?

You're tellin' me!

Faither looked like he was only good for catching flies "Oi Loiks armadillos" sprung to mind....

And the Mum was a f**kwit extraordinaire - weird family, not unlike recluses in the quaker sense

I found the prog a bit disturbing - seemed to me the kids were verging on serious autism - utter brilliance in some areas, but zero social skills, a serious inability to interact with other humans in a normal fashion

I saw what they had as not a gift, but a disability - as Iain Skynet said "I am glad that I have a reasonably normal child who may not be very good at anything in particular, but is fun to live with." - my thoughts exactly