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Child Genius (C4)

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TheFirstOfHerName · 20/07/2014 21:02

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.

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FairlyUseless · 20/07/2014 21:08

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.

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Sparklingbrook · 20/07/2014 21:08

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

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Sparklingbrook · 20/07/2014 21:09

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

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TheBogQueen · 20/07/2014 21:09

Hurrah!

And

Omg!

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WhispersOfWickedness · 20/07/2014 21:09

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

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Sparklingbrook · 20/07/2014 21:10

Manager?

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WhispersOfWickedness · 20/07/2014 21:10

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

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Sparklingbrook · 20/07/2014 21:11

Oh FGS have they taken the juicer with them? Shock

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FairlyUseless · 20/07/2014 21:11

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

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IwishIwasmoreorganised · 20/07/2014 21:11

Blimey Shock

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girliefriend · 20/07/2014 21:12

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

I honestly feel so sorry for these kids.

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Sparklingbrook · 20/07/2014 21:12

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

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WhispersOfWickedness · 20/07/2014 21:12

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

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racmun · 20/07/2014 21:13

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

Old before their time it's actually quite sad

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cantseemtohaveitall · 20/07/2014 21:13

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

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WhispersOfWickedness · 20/07/2014 21:13

Or Leonard's mum, even Blush

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cantseemtohaveitall · 20/07/2014 21:13

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

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TheSpottedZebra · 20/07/2014 21:14

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

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TheBogQueen · 20/07/2014 21:14

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

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Pointlessfan · 20/07/2014 21:14

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

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cantseemtohaveitall · 20/07/2014 21:14

Whispers - yes, she is exactly like that!

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Smartiepants79 · 20/07/2014 21:15

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?

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thatstoast · 20/07/2014 21:15

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.

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WhispersOfWickedness · 20/07/2014 21:15

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

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upyourninja · 20/07/2014 21:16

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

I wish I had the recall and functional capacity of some of these children Wink 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?

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