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.

Well done Eleanor, was worried for a moment, my dd has a rubbish memory, I send her upstairs to get some socks and by the time she gets up there she has forgotten what she went up for .

Quite a few of them can't handle loosing, I think this is due to the fact they feel they are letting their parents down.

Marking my place as I'm going to watch it on catch-up when it's up.

kim, they did do a follow-up on the original children from the series. i don't remember what had happened to all of them, but Michael and Dante seemed to have got to be good friends, which was rather nice.

IIRC, the mother of one of those children is (or was) a MNer and said as much on one of the threads.

Yes coconutty, the outnumbered mum does remind me if her!

It's not very nasty. Just a point of view. To be honest I hate all that I'm so intellectual I don't care how I look bullshit. It's so achingly pretentious and middle-class. Where I live, you'd get seriously disapproving looks if your dc looked like they hadn't had a comb put through their hair.

We are very unpretentious in working class Stoke.

That girl (sorry, don't know her name) did amazingly well.

Hope to god Tudor doesn't make his dad unhappy now.

Dh is from Stoke and he commented on the hair too! Bet you're from the posh bit

Sharon is awesome and very well turned out

Oh for god's sake, his mother's crying!

Oh no 'What I achieved is absolutely terrible' it makes my heart break

I feel so bad for these kids shoes parents just seem to be ruining their lives. Tudors parents clearly put way too much pressure on him.

That's sad.

Poor boy, why can't his parents applaud their son

I want to give Tudor a big hug.

Gosh - my heart is breaking for Tudor a bit - he is only 8 years old.

I feel for Tudor, he's 8 years old and his dad is talking about them being also rans??

I want to slap his Dad!

I can't bear it for Tudor - he's obviously petrified of his Dad. It's awful

Tudor's dad is horrible.

That poor boy. His parents are being emotionally abusive.

"she failed herself" -- what a horrible comment :(

Aw his sister has no self esteem does she?

I feel very sorry for Tudor & Hazelle.

The Mum's as bad as the Dad!