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.

Good lord, Tudors parents!
You didn't work hard enough??? He's 8.

Fair point Sauvignon. More of a gut feel that she is naturally bright.

I didn't think multiple personality disorder is recognised any more......

Tudor's dad !!!! Poor little boy - he needs a big hug.

Bloody hell

That's a he of a lot fir one little girl - Aaliyah - to cope with

Her poor mother

Aw, Jocelyn has a lovely, genuine smile, doesn't she?

Is this emotional abuse by egotistical nutty parents? Are these children being neglected? Over disciplined - not allowed to play or develop in a balanced way in their childhood?

If there is neglect in lower class areas SS would be all over it....should these children be rescued? parents investigated?1

Poor Tudor :(

Multiple personality disorder is now thought to be largely hysterical and more a personality disorder that used to be more common when psychiatrists paid alot of attention to patients with it like "Sybil" in the book. Sad for Aaliyah, maybe explains why the mum is a bit me me me with no objective critical ability.

Tudor's dad is vile.

I found Jocelyn very likable. She came across as bright, creative and emotionally grounded.

It was nice to see Jocelyn's parents being so nice to her after the abomination that is Tudor's dad. At least that kid is going to have a happy childhood and her parents can see a stupid competition really doesn't matter

I liked all the Jocelyn family!

Poor Tudor- As if he wasn't upset enough about not doing well

And as for what Aaliyahs parents put her through...That's no life for a young girl

2rebecca I cant follow that - can you make it more simple?

Tudors dad

I feel so sorry for Tudor.

Where have i seen Curtis before?

Are these children supposed to be amazing at everything?
What if they are extraordinary, gifted writers but have been dumped out because maths was the first round?

Curtis was on britains got talent or something.

At least Jocelyn seemed happy, poor Tudor, what an awful pressure to put on his shoulders and for what?

Smartie I have a reasonably high IQ and Oxbridge education. I am bloody awful at anything related to maths - I would have been in pieces at the first round! Maybe my parents should have been pushing me to do mathsy things

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_(book) is a link to the book on Sybil which was quite famous in the 70s (this is in response to newname's post).
Multiple personality disorder was commonly diagnosed in the 60s but then alot of psychiatrists started to feel that therapists were encouraging the condition by giving attention to people who claimed to have multiple personalities and that there was alot of attention seeking in it, in the same way that people with hysterical seizures have "fits" when stressed to attract attention to themselves and that concentrating on the separate personalities people claim to have just makes things worse.
This isn't to say that these people don't have problems and many have been abused but the "multiple personalities" are a side issue that can distract from discussing the abuse in the past and moving ahead with their lives now.

Ugh - this sounds awful. I would never want to hyper-parent (or parent at all TBH) but children with extremely fast clock speeds do have different needs. Our eldest DC whose ed psych report at age 9 (when she was thoroughly demoralised by her experiences at a leading London academic prep school) were 'we don't know exacly what her IQ is as our test only goes up to 160 but she is clearly bored tears by her current school'. We moved her somewhere more flexible and she loved it. TBH, school was always a bit tricky for her (especially once she moved to secondary school) as she found a lot of the work pointless but she enjoyed the social side & has enjoyed both the academic and social side @ University.

Must watch this on catch up. I think it's a shame that it's always the extremes that make the most interesting tv and therefore are paraded. (Haven't seen it yet, but that certainly seems the case having skimmed the thread)

Tudor? Darn it, that's what i was going to call my next dc. I thought it would go nicely with my other two, Norman and Plantagenet

Thanks 2rebecca.