The strange vocabulary of Tiarnan Cawley

Yesterday, Tiarnan, nineteen months, was fiddling with his elder brother's Chemistry equipment. I watched from nearby lest he do anything untoward. He took the little bottles in his hands and shook them, watching their contents. I wasn't bothered by this because the caps are not easy to remove being "child-proof".

As he played, I heard one unexpected word on his lips: "Cyanide". He had heard it, no doubt, from his elder brother, Ainan, but it was funny to hear a nineteen month old baby utter such a word. The incongruity of it would have made me laugh but I was intent on watching him play, lest he find a way to harm himself - but it is most certainly funny now, to recall.

It is not easy being Ainan, 7, with College level Chemistry to his name (compared to the American system) - perhaps he is going to bring up a little friend, in Tiarnan, to talk to, regarding his central interests.

He has certainly got him off to an early - and amusing start.

(If you would like to learn more of Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and nine months, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, four years and two months, and Tiarnan, nineteen months, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, College, University, Chemistry, Science, genetics, left-handedness, precocity, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)