Child Genius anyone??

[Allthingspretty]

should be interesting

[lovecookingmum]

New member. Oops...missed all the fun. But, has anyone seen this one, .

And this one, Child Genius 2 is coming!!! (according to the producer), twitter.com/Sabresonic10

[fuzzpig]

Oh and I really hope she gets her books published. It reminded me of Michael somethingorother who was in the first few series of Child Genius - he wrote some fantasy books (with his mum) under the name Tobias Druitt.

[fuzzpig]

Finally got round to watching the final! I'd accidentally seen on Threads I'm On that Shrinidhi won, but enjoyed watching it anyway.

I LOVE Team Geek, I hope their friendship continues into adulthood, they seemed so right for each other and it's a shame we didn't see more of them.

Ben seemed lovely - very well rounded and passionate (although his hair did remind me my DS really needs a haircut :o) - interesting as the couple of clips they'd shown of him in previous episodes made him appear quite cocky, but that's down to editing/showing "I'm going to win" type quotes in isolation. He didn't seem arrogant at all in this episode.

I was at Lara doing 13 activities a week. Bloody hell, I wonder if my DD is doing too many (3 - she has only just turned 6 though).

I am glad I'm not the only one who was at "let children be children" - I wondered when that MP (who was helping Connor practise) said it was the best part of his speech, he was actually having a subtle dig at Connor's mum...

I am really pleased for Shrinidhi, she seems really lovely and I'm sure she will get her dream career of (IIRC) working for the OED, possibly with a sideline in Countdown appearances :o

[Xenia]

Yes, their hair was so long it impedes how they can see. My children don't want that look. Perhaps it's only certainly parts of the country where it's popular.
The little girl who won reminded me of a couple of girls (both Indian) at my daughter's school years ago (Haberdashers). Really lovely, very very bright, eccentric in a way that does not matter too much at that age. Leagues ahead of everyone else even in a very selective school.

I think she is so lovely because her mother is. You can tell sometimes by how they look at the child and how they react to it.

The debating is a bit pointless for children that age and I think they just )some of them) learned words off by heart. I particularly did not like the jokes memorised to make the audience laugh by some of the boys - just too staged and made the children look like people with good memories, rather than people who are intelligent which is not necessarily the same thing. Perhaps they should have had a maths winner and a words/general knowledge winner so be fair to children who are in one or other category

[alreadytaken]

Yes I meant the residential trip. I thought the spelling test had been staged to get his father off his back but looked at it again and it might be a genuine friendship. Poor child will struggle when physically he's at a very different level and it will be worse when the other boys start to go through puberty.

It was probably good for Hugo that he didn't win.

[Xenia]

I just watched it and am delighted with the winner as she's lovely and not pushed by her parents and a girl won which is nice.

Some of those boys need a hair cut. They can hardly use their eyes as all the hair is over one side.

Miaow's experience is interesting. I felt a bit isolated at school not because I was a year young but just that there were not many bright children in the class. however I had huge ambition and a major work ethic in life so that obviously lucky - to have that plus the supposedly high IQ as well, not that success and money make you happy of course but they are quite nice to have.

[noblegiraffe]

When Longyin was trying to keep up with the other kids (I think you mean during the residential trip when they were doing orienteering?) the Voiceover explained that he had been put up a year at school so physically struggled to keep up. Later they showed the group discussing the orienteering with him, and one of his friends practising spellings with him

[alreadytaken]

Some other gifted children probably do have friendship issues, moggymum. The child whose father timetabled their evenings was shown running after other children saying wait for me, friends would normally have waited. Could have been editing again but I did wonder with some of the children what time they had to maintain friendships, most children would sometimes be sharing things with their friends after school.

[ouryve]

Moggy - team geek are fabulous. DS1 really needs a friendship group like that!

[Moominsarehippos]

The maths ones were inconsistent too. Even I could do some of them. I thought the order of roinds didn't work. The debate ought to have come earlier and should have been done I a way so that the parents didn't have the chance to write the speeches.

Maybe score each round and tot the points up at the end rather than a one round sudden death affair.

[curlew]

The spellings were very inconsistently difficult. But it didn't matter because they had them all in advance to learn. My averagely bright (for Mumsnet) ds could have learned them all if I had said there was a Blackberry Curve in it it for him if he did!

[pussycatwillum]

There certainly seemed to be some inconsistencies in the levels of the questions.

[helenislovely]

I loved the little girl who sniffed books. I am with her on that one. Also was it just me or were the words she had to spell MUCH harder than the rest?

[invicta]

In the quick fire round, surely they would have continued to have more questions, until someone got one wrong.

muggy - loving Team geek

[moggymum89]

I do think the show missed out on clever children and friendships though. Some of the others seemed so loney yet I am sure they have friends too

[moggymum89]

I dont know how they chose the order sadly. They took the children away between rounds. I know that ben was in fact second to answer questions. The winner was well deserved and team geek did congratulate her on her. My ds said she was a nice girl.

[alreadytaken]

As twelveleggedwalk's Dh has pointed out the order in which the children answered determined the winner. That isn't a fair way of doing so but various other things in the competition were no fairer. Moggumum89 do you know how they chose the order in the final?

Team geek were lovely and it was good to see one of the children with friends and not just their parents.

[moggymum89]

Lol my DS would love that. Not sure my oldest DS would though he was rather embrassed by the attention he got. A lot of his friends know he brother.

[Moominsarehippos]

They should have their own show! Its so nice to see kids being funny and kind and smart - not like all the smart-ass backchat on kids tv these days!

[moggymum89]

Anyway thank you again for the lovely comments about team geek. They are all still very much good friends

[moggymum89]

And your right. Not great langue used for connors mum. I did like it when they said about connor being her investment.

[moggymum89]

Totally agree. We were told that it was going to show how clever children mixed with others. All three of team geek are clever and as my DS said they formed a group as they were unpopluar at school. I wanted to see if other gifted children had come accross the same issues that team geek had.

[Taffeta]

What a shame then instead of showing Team Geek, where they could have celebrated the childrens friendships etc they chose instead to vilify certain parents and their children.

Honestly if you rewatch it, nearly all of the language they used in relation to Connors mother was exceptionally negative. "Determined single mum..." etc. Nasty stuff.