Comment preview: A young boy grows up under the care of a sibling of one of his parents. We learn, but he does not yet, that one of his parents had great power or fame or wealth or influence. A strange messenger comes to tell him of this, and to tell him that, due to his p ....

Comment preview: According to NPR, he has a miserable childhood due to **overbearing parents and perpetual virginity:** > [Sidis's biographer describes his parents] as pushy and aggressive. "They believed that you could make a genius," Wallace says. His mother spent the ....

Comment preview: Not a school teacher, but I had between 25-30 piano students for the last 7 years. This is probably similar to kids at schools... Kid says a mix of: "I don't understand" "I didn't do my homework/practice" "I forgot my books" "I was too busy" And then the p ....

Comment preview: There does seem to be a lack of a logical connection here. How is it different to say "go make friends at recess" to a young person than to say "go join a bookclub and make friends there" to a grownup? People are rarely lacking friends because there just a ....

Comment preview: ITT opinionated people who have never taught anyone anything. There's a significant portion of the student population that likes to race ahead into the more advanced section of the course without adequately reinforcing the basics first. If you try to give ....

Comment preview: Don't look back. Everything gets better from here, assuming your going to be a loving father/mother. Watching this world through the eyes of your kids is far better than wasting time for what "might have been". Christmas, birthdays, tooth fairy everything ....

Comment preview: 1. depending on where you live, you will have to bury that tree every year for the winter. I am in Chicago and most people bury fig trees every year if they have them. My Parents have a genetic freak of a tree that can handle the winters in Chicago now, no ....

Comment preview: I was a 'prodigy' to a much lesser degree than this. By age 3 I was reading even though nobody ever taught me how. This mystified my parents. I was (and am) very intelligent, and by high school I was pulling straight A's and graduated from college with ....

Comment preview: Sounds good in theory, but imagine being a child again with all the knowledge you have. Parents treating you like the child you (outwardly) are. Going through grade school and boredom learning your ABCs and 123s. Or perhaps you reveal yourself as a prodigy ....

Comment preview: Here's the father's LinkedIn page. http://www.linkedin.com/in/niloy He's the director of southwest operations at a tech company that appears to be part of the larger Intel corporation - World Ahead or something like that. These stories are always such bull ....

Comment preview: An understandable mistake, but a low concept show in film/television does not mean that it is inferior or unintellectual, rather it just means that the concept of the show is not as important as the amalgam of characters and jokes that make it up. A high c ....

Comment preview: Man, I've heard horror story of where parents become so envious and spiteful of their children achievements or/and potentials, that they belittle and bully their kids just so that their kids can't live out the dreams just as they strive for but failed to s ....

Comment preview: Well, if it makes you feel any better; After his father was murdered he was taken into custody by the state and went into the foster program. Because of his quiet nature and cuteness he was quickly taken in by an upper-middle class couple with a loving hom ....

Comment preview: Best: We used to drive halfway across the US every summer to visit my grandparents. Mom and Dad refused to eat fast food while traveling, and we always stopped at a hotel for the night somewhere in the middle of the trip. Every morning, and after every mea ....

Comment preview: I teach music and on the side teach private lessons. I had one little boy who was about 7 start taking piano lessons and he was damn near a prodigy. They were Jehova's Witnesses so they didn't do gifts or anything on Christmas, but he asked if he could lea ....

Comment preview: Not a doctor, but I was a huge medical geek in middle school. Read a lot of medical textbooks about human anatomy etc. My family relocated to Japan for a year and one day I noticed my mother's legs swelling/shortness of breath after a long day trip/walk to ....

Comment preview: In 1992, Roy Harper was born to Momma Harper and Papa Harper, two world renowned gymnasts. At an early age, Roy was exposed to the art of gymnastics and was deemed a prodigy. With his parent's help, Roy developed his natural acrobatic activities and became ....

Comment preview: The ridiculous prodigy that's actually two people is old. The brother and sister with absent parents and an uncomfortably close relationship is old. Suddenly being transported to another world with no real explanation is old. But NGNL did do *one* thing in ....

Comment preview: I learned to speak complete sentences at 9 months old. I don't remember this, but I'm told that I used to creep out nurses at the hospital, because I'd respond fully when asked a question. I do have vague memories of sitting on a floor with my mom on the ....

Comment preview: My first answer to this question is Julian Bashir. I loved him from the beginning knowing him as a young up-and-coming frontier doctor too eager to see the devastation of battle, hitting on a woman hundreds of years older than him, and generally feeling mo ....

Comment preview: My parents are divorced but they still get along well enough that the whole family spends the two big holidays together (Thanksgiving and Christmas). It is during these two days that my family feels whole again and a part of my childhood is restored. Every ....

Comment preview: I'm still going to church and all my friends/family think I still believe... It's disheartening knowing I'll have to let them down someday and I can't bring myself to do it. I converted to the church when I was 15, against the warnings of my parents who fo ....

Comment preview: One of my chief residents told me about a former intern he had. Unless this intern was a Doogie Howser prodigy, this means he or she was 24 at a minimum at the time, more likely 26 or 27. This intern's parents called and asked why their intern didn't have ....

Comment preview: > What do you think of it? I think there is no evidence. The article says this will end all debate in the title. It also says: > Before we explore the evidence, it s helpful to remember that we do not need hard PROOF in order to be justified in belie ....

Comment preview: I was born mute. A side effect. I have known about the genetic modification to my brain for far longer than I believe anyone is aware. The implants in my frontal cortex have allowed me to gain and retain knowledge from the age I could start understanding m ....