I'm the founding member of a club called DENSA. You can only join if it takes you more than 5 minutes to decide which shoe goes on which foot (slip-ons only).

Sorry, but if my children had not been able to name colours well before five, i would have had concerns about my parenting!

Poor wee mite

#1 - 5 mins to put shoes on.
Sorry, way out of my league.
Can u change it to more then 15 mins so I can join?

I have the letters L and R on all my footwear,now i just have to figure out which foot is left and which is right,any advice?

The club of which AM2 is the president-for-life of is called ASNEM. The acronym makes no real sense, but then again, the membership are slack-jawed, wall-eyed, grass-chewing, cousin-marrying, banjo-playing "geniuses". The collective IQ is around 2.

Please leave this toddler alone so she can have a "normal" life doing what other kids do. When "bright kids" like her are treated differently, they grow up with an inability to socialise, become marginaliosed by their peers and are extremely shy and awkward. Please don't let her end up like that.

Always worries me when you hear about these "clever" kids.

I hope her extreme intelligence doesn't become a millstone round her neck. Although it may appear to be wonderful on the face of it that she is so exceptionally clever, it could make her an outcast from her peers and it may be hard for her to socialise if she has so little in common with other children.

It's sad to see that this poor wee one is going to have a hell of a life.

My daughter (nearly 3) does much of what is suggested above and may be on the Mensa borderline but I wouldn't dream of spoiling her childhood with IQ tests and potential bullying as a result.

We encourage her to develop her intellect but she's still only a toddler and everything is done with fun and play in mind.

I am a Mensan and feel that I suffered enough without IQ tests at school from the ridicule that goes with being different...

My youngest son was 2 in January, he knows all the colours, can count to 10 in English & French, identifies shapes and was speaking sentences by 14 months. He is my partner's only biological child and she was 42 when he was born, I was 50. His mother has no real concept of just how advanced he is having no real frame of reference, but he is very advanced. His nursery are aware and being a very small nursery can provide individual attention, but we would never dream of hot-housing him or sigmatising him in the way that this little one has been. Her parents should enjoy her for herself; there are enough pressures on kids to achieve these days with adding to them needlessly!

MENSA - a society of misfits who think they are superior to others on a flawed IQ test.

#6

I have C & A on my thongs, but I bought them from M & S.
Can I join too.

I'll bet shes never had a days fun in her two years.

Without doubt little Georgia Brown has a higher IQ than Tony Blair or any of his labour ministers.

Give the little gal a break... she was born that way. No one can teach that kind of thing to a 2 year old. And, as for MENSA... they're not so much misfits who think they're superior as was mentioned by #15, they merely have capabilities that are different than the average bloke so they gather together to be with people who understand their situation. Reminds me of pubs and churches... people of similar likes and habits usually find themselves with other people of similar likes and habits. As for #17s comment... how do you know what she thinks of as fun? Fun to her may be totally different from what you or I may think of as fun. In fact what you think of as fun is probably completely different from what others in this forum may consider fun. It's all relative.

I fear that this kind of expectation will result in a bulimic teenager with no self esteeme. Don't load your child with your own inadequacies, let them be their age.

Now take a look at these posts and figure out which posters failed the supervised Mensa test!

Maybe she's winding them all up!

"#23. Anne / 12:24pm 22 Jun 2007 Now take a look at these posts and figure out which posters failed the supervised Mensa test!"

Never bothered - I already know I am fairly intelligent and do not need a test to bam on about it!!

:D

One thing's for sure, she'll not be politician material.

#26 Absolutely!!

Who was it who said "if you've half a mind to be a politician, you're probably over-qualified"??!!

I prefer the "you can tell a poltician is lying" one . . .

All children have this potential: just not all parents have the willingness or time to pay them the kind of attention this sort of development requires, especially in these days of two-earner mortgages.

Don't send her to school in Scotland!

1) There are obviously different types of intelligence. 2) You can be more intelligent one day than the next dependending on hangover, mood etc. 3) Plus, define 'intelligence'. People never define it the same way so how do we know what we're talking about? 4) I think the 'word' intelligence simply means my middle-class kid deserves a place university. 5) For the previous 4 reasons I think people who believe in mensa are stupid. 6) And most important, is this a sexist organisation? Why is it not called 'womensa'?

Get a life.

#31, I think "womensa" would be tautologous, as it's feminine to start with!

The 1 in 500 performance on the IQ test isn't especially unusual. Approximately 10,000 people in Scotland would be expected to be at that level and perhaps around 60 of them would be two year old girls. What is unusual here is that the mother has allowed her daughter's case to become public, and I think that's a mistake. Some children end up like performing seals.

This precocious kid is astoundingly slow to develop. Why, Shirley Temple was still in the womb when she took Hollywood by storm.

NY Times: "The Science of Second-Guessing"
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Published: December 12, 2004

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12QUESTIONS.ht...

Deborah Solomon (Q): What is your I.Q.?
Stephen Hawking (A): I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Mensa. Mensa is a scam, I hope you all know. While this girl might be bright, if she is really smart when she comes of age she'll quit Mensa.
How many folks who are like Gates, Ellison, Nobel winners talk about Mensa: none.
The only thing Mensa has ever done that is smart is somehow get themselves to be seen as credible.
Also high IQ doesn't mean good judgment. It takes perseverance, aptitude and good judgment to be extraordinary, IQ isn't enough.
If these parents were as smart as the kid, they would hide the intelligence and try to nurture it and complete it, not sit around and brag to others how smart she is, that is plain stupid.
In case you are wondering, I could join if I wanted - but I wouldn't be seen with people who celebrate aptitude without an accomplishment.
Poor girl. She won't get to change the world unless she is properly trained tempered and sheltered from a ridiculous society in search of heroes.
For those in Mensa - you are dumb enough to pay to be smart!