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Child Genius anyone??

783 replies

Allthingspretty · 11/06/2013 21:04

should be interesting

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Stillhopingstillhere · 18/06/2013 21:57

I like the book girl too. She licks the books! Eccentric but sweet.

MrsBucketxx · 18/06/2013 21:57

me too her brother gets all the limelight.

HugAndRoll · 18/06/2013 21:57

Oscar is amazing! I am in awe. Hugo should have been kicked out.

Stillhopingstillhere · 18/06/2013 21:58

Yes chicken. Her mum thinks she's thick because her iq I'd only in the top 2% not the top 0.1% like her brother.

She only just made Mensa for goodness sake.

Stillhopingstillhere · 18/06/2013 21:58

Leo is out!

girliefriend · 18/06/2013 21:59

Oh bless I know he is annoying but watching Leos bottom lip wobble has just made we well up!!

Mollydoggerson · 18/06/2013 21:59

It is so sad, so much pressure on them. Poor kids.

carlywurly · 18/06/2013 22:00

Aw. Nice Leo and his dad moment. Grin

FacebookWanker · 18/06/2013 22:00

I wanted to hug Leo. He looked so sweet...

AlmostHadItAll · 18/06/2013 22:00

Oscar is fabulous! Seems grounded with a lovely family Smile

invicta · 18/06/2013 22:00

Loving. Leo's dad when he say Leo wants to run Sony or Coca Cola.

girliefriend · 18/06/2013 22:02

I am still Confused as to why any parent would want to put their baby child through that though. What is the point?

They are only children for such a short amount of time, just let them be kids for goodness sake.

ShipwreckedAndComatose · 18/06/2013 22:05

Totally agree with hug!

Oscar is amazing! And Hugo should have been disqualified.

I thought Leo seemed to really learn something out of this

PatFenis · 18/06/2013 22:14

I have never been happier to be the mother of distinctly average intelligence children Grin

see you all next week folks!

annh · 18/06/2013 22:17

I can see why the parents enter their children because many of the children are very competitive and want to "prove" themselves. However, this competition reminded me of Christians being thrown to the lions. Not sure I am going to watch next week, I felt like I was party to something very unppleasant at the end of the episode.

SauceForTheGander · 18/06/2013 22:19

Am amazed they weren't supervised doing the memory test. Just because they're clever doesn't mean they are going to behave.

Poor Rosa.

Taffeta · 18/06/2013 22:20

I think Hugo is fab and his parents are awesome. The programme is obv v heavily edited and I am sure the parents were holding off telling him off as the cameras were there.

TBH, I feel him and his family were the most well adjusted of the lot.

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sandyballs · 18/06/2013 22:55

I wonder what they are all like socially amongst 'normal' kids their age.

DoctorAnge · 18/06/2013 23:10

Hugo should have been Disqualified for that performance in the study room. He was rude, indulged and rather dreadful.
I think it really threw Rosa who was used to studying alone in silence. Poor girl.

invicta · 18/06/2013 23:14

It would be nice if they did a follow up programme in years to come to see how they all progress.

ouryve · 18/06/2013 23:16

Just watched on 4+1.

Oscar is fabulous. He's just naturally brilliant and a lovely kid with it.

I see a lot of DS1 in Hugo. DS1 has plenty of boundaries, but doesn't like many of them. Hugo needs a few more, but I can't help agreeing with him, a lot of the time. Working memory is the key to intelligence. That doesn't involve memorising a pack of cards, which is incredibly boring and pointless. In computer terms, it simply means you have an effective cache. Glad he got told off for pissing around, though. He should have been taken out of the room.

Catherine is brilliant, too, and I hope that, with every stage of the competition, her mother is eating her words about her son being the really intelligent one.

Shrinidi - naturally brilliant, too. I'm not surprised she aced the card memorising, as she seems to have a visual memory, despite her bookishness.

Longyin and his father seem to work brilliantly as a team. His father does have extreme views about intelligence/childhood/life prospects etc, but he seems to be genuinely motivational, rather than pressuring like that awful chess mom from last week was.

Leo will end up in politics.

Jinsei · 18/06/2013 23:27

Oscar and Shrinidhi are the only ones who strike me as being really gifted tbh. They both seem to be naturally bright and relatively normal.

Hugo is bright in some ways, but I don't think he is as clever as he thinks he is. He is also lacking in social and emotional intelligence, so comes across as being very unbalanced.

I liked Leo's dad - he seemed quite normal and not too blinded to his son's strengths and weaknesses. Not so sure about his mum though - I rather suspect she's a bit of a tiger mother.

I felt sad for the kids who were pushed, though I did quite like the way in which Longyin's dad wanted to teach his son how to fail last week - seemed quite a healthy approach given that many bright children won't be used to losing.

So glad that the little chess boy went out last week.

Jinsei · 18/06/2013 23:29

Oh, and I loved Oscar talking about his formula t-shirt! Didn't have a clue what he was on about! Grin

DoctorAnge · 19/06/2013 00:10

Leo's Mum relocated and took him to a prep school in Italy, the only one that suited him Hmm he hasn't got on in any of the 3 schools he has been in for, was it, five years now?

I certainly don't see him as a CEO of any large corporation.
At least he had discipline from his Dad though, unlike Hugo who is just hideous.