Child Genius anyone??

[Allthingspretty]

should be interesting

Poor little sod; take him for an ice cream and take him home

One word. Hideous.

Breaks my heart.

Not much physical contact going on. Joshua looks like he just needs a hug.

God, where do they get these parents from. They are a complete nightmare and clearly trying to live through their children. One of the boys Hugo looks like my DS without the genius element.

I thought I would like this programme but am actually thinking 'those poor children, with the nightmare parents'

so sad, poor kids.

arithmetic skills are dependent on training even with intelligence.

Yes, poor Josh.
Like most parents, I get incredible pleasure from seeing my dd do well at something but watching this reminds me than ever that actually, what's most important is who they are.

Fruit shoots? Really?

expected the 'pushed' kids to do better this time.

I'm actually finding this painful to watch.

We have been told by school and EP that DS2's ability is somewhere between top 0.01 and 0.1 of population.

I don't do any of that stuff those parents do! His primary school provides some support (secondary teachers for maths & science) and at his request, we take him to one maths or science masterclass per term. But the rest of the time he is reading or playing on Minecraft!

Is it just me or are they all a little bit 'odd'? Hugo is down right bloody rude.
He would drive. Me. Nuts.

So he's got mercury poisoning then?

This is the reason why some of the cleverest people are also the most emotionally damaged.

Ahhh you can't eat that many sardines!!! Too much mercury.

Yes - both my DC are Minecraft engineering geniuses!

How can that quiz master sleep at night? This is just so awful.

I feel sorry for Catherine -what more does the girl have to do for her mum to accept she's clever?

Ironic Matthew in his snowboarding and ski ing top.

That was MEAN editing.

I thought Matthew was the Maths 'expert'?

Standing in front of an audience is daunting enough. Surely it would be fairer to give them written tests.

Handcream

I was wondering if anyone would comment on the fruitshoot . Mad, mad parents, all of them.