Child Genius anyone??

[Allthingspretty]

should be interesting

Chess mom was barking. She wasn't focussed beyond chess. I felt sorry for the child. She does realise that one day he will refuse to play chess at all, doesn't she?

What about Rosa Maria and her mum?

I thought chess mum had serious ishooos.

I thought Rosa Maria seemed like a very academic, hard-working,driven child - DS1 has a female friend just like her - pushes herself to limits, perfectionist etc. Thought Mum was a bit PFB about her, but liked the way she comforted her when she was eliminated - I think she seemed genuinely proud of her daughter rather than it being about her own gratification. I think she would have stayed in the comp if it hadn't been for Hugo's antics when they were revising the cards - she was obviously used to studying in her bedroom in a quiet atmosphere. I'd be the same. I really felt for her at that point.

I think a child who does so much work is strange. Where us the spirit if some of these kids? Many if them are so compliant, I expect they'll rebel when they're older.

I would like to have seen Hugo disciplined for his antics in the room where they were memorising the cards. And why was it up to another child to go and get an adult?
Leo is a lot like my friend's DD who has AS.

So you leave a class of ten year olds alone for an hour. Doesn't take a genius to see the flaw in that master plan!

Exactly pussy, there should have been an adult evigelator (sp) in the room

I love this programme, I love the kids. what do you expect 10 year olds to behave like with the tv camera attention, and the parents of course, would be not be behaving as normally. in fact Josh, mentioned how his mum would normally tell him off.

indian girl did fantastically well in the playing card memory game but was glossed over by the programme, after focusing heavily on Oscar.

leo and his dad were great and I shall miss watching him. and josh and his cute brother and bemused looking parents.
ok, they came over as precocious but they are just kids and I think it is unfair to be so critical

The criticisms are of the parents waikikamookau

I agree that the children will 'play up' to the cameras but even so - referring to people as 'twerps', 'idiots' 'stupid'; it's not nice. Where have they heard these words I wonder.

I did notice Josh commenting that his mum would normally have told him off for throwing his sock at her, but still.....

waik are you Josh or Leo's mum?? If not then your as bonkers as their parents!

Well that was the most fucking depressing thing ever. I think a comment which featured very early on from one of the mums summed it up: "he doesn't care if he loses, I care if he loses." Nice.

IQ is not a very good indicator of true intelligence, all it represents is symbolic logic and ergo, mathematical skill. The ability to memorise facts and predict sequences does not walk hand in hand with intelligence, to be intelligent is to be well rounded. Lots of kids who are trained like this lack ability in self-awarness, communication, empathy and abstract thought, which are all considered part of the package when it comes to 'intelligence'

did want to strikethrough that but it's a bit long

Fuck I hope I don't regret posting that no one jump on me

On the contrary, I quite agree with you Oldie.

OlidusUrsus, I completely agree with you. For anyone interested in the concept of IQ testing, I highly recommend this book IQ: How Psychology Hijacked Intelligence I might re read it soon actually. Brilliant book.

Oldie - the ability to have satisfying relationships is extremely important. My worry for some of the 'Child Geniuses' is that they will find this difficult - eg, how can Leo be practising making friends when he keeps changing schools? His parents are putting his intellectual development before almost everything else it seems.

Or the little chess-player - so much time spent on chess - when does he play with friends I wonder?

Alot of the children seemed to play their hobbies - chess, bridge etc with people alot older

Just catching up.on Mondays episode and I feel sorry for these children. Well, most of them. One of them.is incredibly arrogant and the mannerisms / words he chooses must have been learned from those arpund him.

"twerps" "idiots" "stupid" made me raise my eyebrows. Not nice or clever.

Watching episode 3. I wouldn't have the patience to be Hugo's mum.

Yes, bico, it looks like hard work!

I'm feeling very sorry for Hugo's brother - seems to be completely forgotten about.....and how spoilt is Hugo?!

The DCs were just saying that they wouldn't like to be Hugo's brother.

I was just saying to DP, I reckon Hugo's brother will end up being more successful - he'll be a hard worker whereas Hugo seems to rely too much on natural ability. He's actually pretty lazy.

Nice to see Connor on here, doesn't seem to have come from such a privileged background as some of the others

Oh, bless. Not allowed on the top bunk for 'health and safety' reasons.
Poor lad.