Q: Image you discover that your young son or daughter is a child prodigy. What will you do? How will you encourage your child? How will you protect your son or daughter's childhood?
A: If I had a son or a daughter as a prodigy, I think it would be an pleasant amazement to me, and I will do anything I can to discover their potential and encourage them to do anything they like. I don't think every prodigy need to finish their regular education in a very short time to prove their inborn telant. Conversely, child prodigies need more time to discover their real interest and then can be trained in an appropriate way to suit their individual need. For me, I will give my son more time to try anything which might interested him, like music, mathematics, painting, physics, etc... I will not set any bound on him, and will not factitiously sharp him as another Newton or Einstein. Furthermore, I will give him a normal childhood like other children have. Every child need to explore the world by their own hand and learn how to communicate with other people in a relatively natural environment. If we have these prodigies spending much of their time to take the training programs to be some kind of experts. These prodigies may not be able to have enough time to play with other children and have friends to spend time with. These prodigies may eventually become longly experts and complain the inborn talent which ruin their whole life.
I will give my children a normal childhood no matter they are prodigies or not. If they are indeed prodigies and desire to learn more things, I will totally support them and give them the best training programs. But I will also encourage them to play with other children and take them to do some outdoor activities. Be another Einstein is a good thing, but be a infantile autism Einstein is not good at all.
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