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Child prodigies are known to be called children, whom educational system thinks much more intellectually developed and talented compared to most of their peers. Such individuals, as a rule, already demonstrate at an early age outstanding abilities in one or several areas activities.
The development of geeks is not infinite
However, if your child is suddenly recognized as a child prodigy, do not rejoice ahead of time, being sure that you bring up the future Albert Einstein or Bill Gates. A recent study by American scientists showed that such children are born much more often than is commonly believed, however, most of they later become the most ordinary adults without any talents.
According to the University of California at Auckland, the intellectual potential of the child tends to be depleted by as the baby grows older. It turns out that earlier it was mistakenly believed that child prodigies remain as smart for the rest of their lives.
According to the conclusions of the authors of this scientific work, the spotless consciousness allows many boys and girls to demonstrate amazing abilities in music, math, physics or encyclopedic knowledge without any training and practice. By no less when a child enters school and his parents begin to intensively seek out my child’s sphere of activity in life, the little genius is rapidly losing his personality and get stupid.
Former geeks become ordinary townsfolk
The biggest trouble, according to scientists, is that this process is difficult to stop if parents want to make a baby a full member of society. From school, of course, not refuse, while geeks often themselves do not know what want in life, tossing about between certain activities. Today, the child wants to be a programmer, tomorrow – a musician, the day after tomorrow – a poet, and the most interesting thing is that he is good it turns out both that, and another, and the third, however the father with mother insist that the child choose, in the end, one thing, and the kid has to give up many of his hobbies, among which, perhaps, was his calling.
It is worth recalling that in the United States received a large fame project organized by professor Joan Freeman. The specialist watched the life of two for thirty-six years. hundreds of talented and even brilliant children. Results of this the experiments were very disappointing: only five of them managed to realize their children’s talents in life and achieve undoubted success. At the same time, ninety-seven test subjects grew mentally unstable, socially withdrawn or financially dysfunctional. The rest are now leading a very ordinary life without any significant ups and downs – typical gray the inhabitants.
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