Parents often tend to overestimate the success and achievements of their children. Hulking figure seems to them a masterpiece of art, and the desire to bang on the piano keys - sign musical talent... But the real geeks, according to experts, is born one hundred thousand. How do you determine whether your child belongs to this category?
Early language development
Statistics show that most geeks children begin to speak coherently in the very early age (year and a half), when other kids are still just barely begin to articulate some the words. In this case, they do not just recite a set of words, and clearly express their thoughts and desires.
Curiosity
Children with extraordinary abilities are trying to learn more about the world. They love to ask adults questions, and such that baffled. Say, "Why is the sun hot, and the moon not?" Or "why snow is white, and translucent rain?"
Answers to your questions geeks tend to be very good at remembering. In addition, they are always analyzing the information, and not just take it for granted.
Often, these children quickly learn to read and begin to draw the necessary information from books or the Internet, the more that parents are not always able to fully satisfy their curiosity. In three years, a baby can already from cover to cover to study the encyclopedia.
By the way, a considerable percentage of children with high IQ found among autistics, according to representatives of the American Autism Services Association. Outwardly, they may give the impression of the mentally retarded, as non-contact, but they often have the ability to store large amounts of information, and even successfully treat it, but because of problems in communicating difficult for them to demonstrate their abilities and use them to practice.
Creative ability
Little geniuses are different from normal children so that they can completely solve the non-standard ways of their tasks, which do not always come to mind, even a stupid adult... They tend to rely not on their own experience or stereotypes, inspired others, and intuition. And these "techniques" are often much more effective than "checked".
Unfortunately, in preschool and educational institutions of the mental level of these children are not always adequately assessed. The fact that they are often uninteresting follow the instructions of the teacher, or to repeat the material from the textbook. As a result, he does and says is not what all (for example, the teacher asks "stupid" questions or writing an essay on the wrong subject) and thus it falls into the category of Losers or bullies, when in fact the real knowledge he can be much more than that classmates.
That is why many geniuses, including Albert Einstein, poorly in school.
Happens, the child was not even graduated from school or receiving higher education: it does not have an incentive to do so as a training program, designed for the "average performance" driving into too narrow limits, and it seems to be more attractive to acquire knowledge, than to learn on someone else standards.
Falling into extremes
A child prodigy can sometimes sit all day for a book or find solutions for twenty-one task, but it can not quite be able to communicate with other children and to be absolutely helpless in home.
For example, he may have difficulty with the fact that their own dress and wrapped in seven or eight years. As far as we know, many geniuses were unsuited to real life could not exist without the family, which is always close and took care of them.
A distinctive feature of the young "genius" is a distraction, and disorganization. This is due to the fact that they always stay "in their world." Therefore, parents of gifted children is recommended to teach them how to manage your time. discipline and regimen early in life in general is very important.
There are even special training that can help your child learn these things. In addition, it does not hurt to teach practical skills and useful, as may occur in later life a situation where the ability to prepare their own food or pet clothes will be more important encyclopedic knowledge.
