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I come across children who are exceptional in academia at work. I also come across children who are not academic.
Every child has a talent, it might not be maths, it might be football, sewing, singing, dancing or playing an instrument.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I come across children who are exceptional in academia at work. I also come across children who are not academic.
Every child has a talent, it might not be maths, it might be football, sewing, singing, dancing or playing an instrument.
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Of course every child develops at a different rate and im positive all children are loved equally for their individuality and their own skill set.. but this program (Channel 4) is just mind blowing how smart these young children are.
Exceptionally driven but has to be so hard to keep up to stimulate them. Parents arent sure just how much to encourage it. Also if there is another sibling within that family who isnt at the same level must be tough as they might feel not as important |
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"I come across children who are exceptional in academia at work. I also come across children who are not academic.
Every child has a talent, it might not be maths, it might be football, sewing, singing, dancing or playing an instrument.
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My daughter is gifted in Mathis and history, she is like a sponge at the moment. We use the library usually twice a week besides her school books. It can be hard work at times with a thousand and one questions, but differently worthwhile. |
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"I come across children who are exceptional in academia at work. I also come across children who are not academic.
Every child has a talent, it might not be maths, it might be football, sewing, singing, dancing or playing an instrument.
Of course every child develops at a different rate and im positive all children are loved equally for their individuality and their own skill set.. but this program (Channel 4) is just mind blowing how smart these young children are.
Exceptionally driven but has to be so hard to keep up to stimulate them. Parents arent sure just how much to encourage it. Also if there is another sibling within that family who isnt at the same level must be tough as they might feel not as important"
Good teachers bring to the front that special part of a child that makes them shine. |
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Some parents put a lot into their children, they nurture them, encourage them and bring out their talent. Others find its hard work so plonk then in front of the television and let the rectangular box educate their children.
I wouldn't call it hard work just good parenting personally. |
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"Some parents put a lot into their children, they nurture them, encourage them and bring out their talent. Others find its hard work so plonk then in front of the television and let the rectangular box educate their children.
I wouldn't call it hard work just good parenting personally. "
are you watching the program? Im not talking about an average child, im talking about phenomenally smart children with crazily high IQ's |
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By *enithWoman
over a year ago
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"Some parents put a lot into their children, they nurture them, encourage them and bring out their talent. Others find its hard work so plonk then in front of the television and let the rectangular box educate their children.
I wouldn't call it hard work just good parenting personally.
are you watching the program? Im not talking about an average child, im talking about phenomenally smart children with crazily high IQ's"
C4 on here |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Both my son and grandaughter have exceptionally high iqs but because they have adhd can't channel it properly and their frustration comes out in their behaviour |
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My big brother has a ridiculously high IQ, went to Oxford and Cambridge to do his PHD, and my parents never encouraged him anymore than me, he was just very much into his books, he has crap commonsense and is useless at any form of sport admittedly. All the more remarkable that his real mum drank heavily with him in the womb. These kids are just weird though. |
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"Some parents put a lot into their children, they nurture them, encourage them and bring out their talent. Others find its hard work so plonk then in front of the television and let the rectangular box educate their children.
I wouldn't call it hard work just good parenting personally.
are you watching the program? Im not talking about an average child, im talking about phenomenally smart children with crazily high IQ's"
All children should have a lot of input with children its folly to think you shouldn't put in time and effort with an average child although many these days see ti as too much hard work. |
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Id naturally encourage my child to do well if she wanted to learn, but to allow a child 50 hours a week to play chess.. i think thats more the mothers 5 year plan to make her son a grand slam champion than her sons ambition.
Guess its trying to find a balance of what is healthy. These children dont appear to have a normal childhood of playing games with friends, its all constant learning.
Ive mixed emotions on it and trying to think what i would do if i had a child genius |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"should re-name the programme "Pushy parents""
Some maybe but to be fooled by the producers of the show that all are like that is naive. If I was a child with talent I would rather be encouraged rather than left to my own devices. |
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"All children should have a lot of input with children its folly to think you shouldn't put in time and effort with an average child although many these days see ti as too much hard work."
Cant speak on behalf of all parents here, but i actively encourage my child to learn, read, play etc.. Ive posters in the hallways, constantly update her books, always read bedtime stories and when she wants me to read to her, she enjoys music and role play so her dressing up wardrobe is huge. She's massively into jigsaws and very arty.. I encourage her but its fun and never forced.
My point was more that these children on this C4 program are members of Mensa at such young ages and i guess its hard on the parents who might not even be as smart as their significantly younger child... |
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"should re-name the programme "Pushy parents"
Some maybe but to be fooled by the producers of the show that all are like that is naive. If I was a child with talent I would rather be encouraged rather than left to my own devices. "
The trend with C4 producers is to sensationalise documentaries with the aim of improving viewing figures. Far better to encourage kids I would think there are thousands in the UK who have exceptional children that don't come across as freaky parents so would not be wanted on the show. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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I forgot to put this on to record so didn't see it tonight, just watching the last half on +1.
I wanted to watch it just because of the clip of one mother saying her son is in the top 5% of annoying children.
I don't think it's easier for these children or their parents. Unless you have parents with really high IQs there will be a point at which you out-grow your parents or your parents just don't understand what it feels like to have the burden of being so different.
The only thing that I do wonder about with children and parents of all levels now is that children are never allowed to be bored. It's a really important thing to learn how to manage not being stimulated all the time. |
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The only thing that I do wonder about with children and parents of all levels now is that children are never allowed to be bored. It's a really important thing to learn how to manage not being stimulated all the time."
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The only thing that I do wonder about with children and parents of all levels now is that children are never allowed to be bored. It's a really important thing to learn how to manage not being stimulated all the time."
Children who are pushed or have things forced on them or even the ones plonked in front of the TV can still be board. Looking back as a child I would go out all day and play in the woods or at football I would say there was more stimulation then than now if being honest. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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The only thing that I do wonder about with children and parents of all levels now is that children are never allowed to be bored. It's a really important thing to learn how to manage not being stimulated all the time.
Children who are pushed or have things forced on them or even the ones plonked in front of the TV can still be board. Looking back as a child I would go out all day and play in the woods or at football I would say there was more stimulation then than now if being honest."
I've found that many parents spend their lives taking their kids to some club or other, allowing them to play computer games and they have every toy possible.
Being left without television, computer games, friends visiting or going to a club/event/party won't kill them but might teach them to draw on their imaginations or to learn to switch off. |
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I haven't seen the programme but if we are talking about gifted children then no, not every child has a talent to that degree, in fact I'm sure it's very few and far between. And children who are academically brilliant wouldn't be educated in local comprehensives, I doubt whether the teachers would be able to keep up
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The only thing that I do wonder about with children and parents of all levels now is that children are never allowed to be bored. It's a really important thing to learn how to manage not being stimulated all the time.
Children who are pushed or have things forced on them or even the ones plonked in front of the TV can still be board. Looking back as a child I would go out all day and play in the woods or at football I would say there was more stimulation then than now if being honest.
I've found that many parents spend their lives taking their kids to some club or other, allowing them to play computer games and they have every toy possible.
Being left without television, computer games, friends visiting or going to a club/event/party won't kill them but might teach them to draw on their imaginations or to learn to switch off."
What is the real life benefit in that?
Parents take kids to clubs because frankly its not as safe as it used to be letting kids play out on their own. The lack of tv, computer games has no relationship to imagination or lack of it but I would say if pushed those things give children a bigger imagination than not.
The other way of looking at it is that many parents who cannot be bothered to spend a decent percentage of their free time with children are lazy although that's as relevant as the program was tonight. You could say the computer/tv generation of producers had the imagination to slant the perception of the so called pushy parents in an entertainment route for tv watching parents. |
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I was a child genius that could/should have achieved so much more than i have, at least my mother tells me I was every time he tells me I've wasted my teens and 20s!
She speaks some truth though, I found school too easy so didn't pay too much attention. When it came to taking my GCSEs I didn't revise for a single one of them and came away with 11 As. So then I wasted the next 2 years of my life doing the same thing during my A levels, only this time with girls and alcohol involved and it backfired when I failed to revise again.....and failed 2 out of my 3 exams. Took me until my late 20s to realise what I'd actually thrown away!  |
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"I was a child genius that could/should have achieved so much more than i have, at least my mother tells me I was every time he tells me I've wasted my teens and 20s!
She speaks some truth though, I found school too easy so didn't pay too much attention. When it came to taking my GCSEs I didn't revise for a single one of them and came away with 11 As. So then I wasted the next 2 years of my life doing the same thing during my A levels, only this time with girls and alcohol involved and it backfired when I failed to revise again.....and failed 2 out of my 3 exams. Took me until my late 20s to realise what I'd actually thrown away! "
I am sure you have achieved alot more than you think or give yourself credit for.. |
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