Child Genius (C4)

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Anyone planning to watch this?

I was a little like these children; joined Mensa as a child, but used my ability to coast through school/university rather than to achieve anything noteworthy.

DS2 is also of this ilk. We are not doing any of the things these parents are doing, although when opportunities arise through school then obviously we let him participate.

Extreme parenting like this scares me. I went to school with an extremely smart girl. Off the scale. Parents pushed her so much. I heard she dropped out of uni and embarked on a life of sex and drugs.

I have it on. I am sat here like this. and a bit and a bit

Oh and I need to get the juicer out.....

I'm watching! It's a totally different world to mine, no geniuses here

Hurrah!

And

Omg!

Manager?

The cabbage juice did make me feel a little ill...

Oh FGS have they taken the juicer with them?

As my darling dad says, nothing wrong with average. The world is run by average people.

Blimey

Have been watching for 10 seconds and the parents are annoying me already

I honestly feel so sorry for these kids.

DH says he doesn't know if he can do the whole hour-he is too offended by it already.

Does Aliyah's mum remind anyone else of Leonard'd mum from TBBT?

'She's not profoundly gifted like me'- wow

Old before their time it's actually quite sad

Jesus. This is just great entertainment. Also frightening - the parents, not so much the kids.

Or Leonard's mum, even

And don't most child geniuses end up as either social recluses or hating their parents?

Have only just turned it on - I found the last series so interesting, a not a little heartbreaking.

"I don't think I could parent without neurolinguistic programming"

A better name for the programme would be "lunatic parents".

Whispers - yes, she is exactly like that!

What every little boy needs. A manager not a mum!
How do they manage to make some of them look so odd at such a young age?
Bow ties?

I've got it on record. There were some lovely children on it last year (Shrinidhi!) and, yes, some not so lovely parents but it's an interesting programme.

DH and I were sat open-mouthed at that speech, Bog queen
How do all us average parents manage, eh?

Loving it already - some smart editing choices by the makers of the documentary already

I wish I had the recall and functional capacity of some of these children on balance though I'm rather glad I was left to play outside rather than doing most of this work.

What happens when these children leave home and realise that no one else is going to pay so much attention to them, their needs and learning styles, and no one else will bend to accommodate some of their apparent rudeness?