Tiarnan tests the temperature.

Tiarnan is a creative toddler. I say this because he manages to find new ways to do old things that are, in fact, superior. This is rather surprising when you consider that he is only 17 months and can't be expected to have too much experience of life.



One example happened a couple of weeks ago.



Tiarnan, like most young children, has long discovered that some objects can be hot. He has learnt to be wary of hot objects. This is natural. However, what is unusual is the approach he has adopted towards potentially hot objects. He has taken to testing their temperature in a way unlikely to bring him pain. Most children - and adults - in fact, reach out to touch potentially hot objects with the tips of their fingers, extending one finger to test the heat of the object. This is effective. It is not difficult to ascertain whether something is hot. The problem is that the tip of the finger is highly sensitive and easily feels pain. Tiarnan has recognized this and so has invented a different approach. When faced with an object which may be hot, such as a cup, he reaches out to touch it - WITH THE OUTSIDE OF HIS FIST. My wife and I thought this particularly ingenious, because this part of the hand is quite insensitive to heat and less given to pain - and so, from Tiarnan's perspective - much less likely to feel hurt. He can readily determine whether the object is hot - but with much less risk of sudden discomfort or pain.



This shows that Tiarnan is observing his body very closely and how it responds to the environment. In this way, he rapidly adapts his behaviour so the outcome suits him better.

It is enlightening how much thought can be revealed in even the simplest of actions - for if an action is non-standard, there is always a good reason why this is so. Just ask Tiarnan.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, seventeen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and seven months, or Fintan, four years and no 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, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted children and gifted adults in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan's taste in food

A week or two ago, when Tiarnan was sixteen months old, his mother asked him a question.

"Do you want green bean soup?", enquired Syahidah of her littlest son.

"Red bean bun.", he replied, clearly.

This was a funny reply for many reasons. Did he really want a red bean bun - or was he making a visual joke? Was he juxtaposing the red, against the green? There were many foods that he could have asked for - but he chose one that had a visual and semantic relationship with the one being asked.

It is notable that neither food was in sight.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, seventeen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and seven months, or Fintan, four years and no 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, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan and the meaning of art

A few days ago, Tiarnan was hurtling about the house, as he likes to do, when he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

He pointed at a little green badge and said: "Kuda". This is Malay for horse.

There, on the badge was a rather confused line drawing. It was of a male rider, drawn over a horse, about a centimetre tall. It wasn't a very good work of art for the lines of the man became confused with the lines of the horse. An adult would know what was meant to be represented (if only from the name of a riding school on the badge), but it was a surprise that a seventeen month old baby could work it out - for it was not at all clear.

From this, it is clear that Tiarnan is aware of the littlest things in his environment, which he is able to pick up at speed, even when moving around quite quickly. It is also clear that he understands the relationship between art and object; between the representation and the thing represented. He has long shown this understanding, but this is just one more example of him drawing that connection, with little information to go on.

(If you would like to more of Tiarnan, seventeen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and seven months, or Fintan, four years and no months, then please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan and the colours of the world

Tiarnan, just turned seventeen months, seems to be absorbing information without us being quite aware of where his information comes from.

Yesterday, for instance, there was an intently coloured decoration beside me. I pointed it out to Tiarnan since that colour is rarely found in the environment: "Purple", I said, to him.

Since we seemed to be in the colour pointing business, Tiarnan had a most apt reply to my example. He leant over and looked behind him and pointed at a bag. "Red." he said. It was indeed, a red bag. Funny boy.

(If you would like to learn more of Tiarnan, seventeen months, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, just turned four, or Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and seven 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, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted children and gifted adults in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan tries Daddy's shoes

Tiarnan is an ambitious baby. Though his feet fit comfortably in the palm of my hand, with plenty of room to spare, he wants to start wearing my shoes.

Last night, I caught him trying on his mother's shoes. He had placed one foot in one of her shoes and was dragging it around with him, looking down at it to see the effect. He seemed quite pleased with himself.

Then I asked him: "Do you want to try Daddy's shoes?"

He took his foot from his mother's shoe and walked over to one of mine - which I had not pointed out - so clearly he knows who wears what. Then he put his foot into it and proceeded to walk in the same way - dragging it with him, keeping his foot close to the floor lest it fall off. He must have learnt this lesson at some point, for only with this style of walking was it possible to keep the rather large shoe on his foot.

Then he did something sweet. He stopped. He looked down at his shoed foot - and suddenly leant down to press with his outstretched finger the leather of the shoe. It was hilarious: he was testing where his toes got to, in the shoe! He was comparing his foot size to my own, by discovering where his toes were in the shoe.

I didn't see, the first time, precisely where his finger touched the shoe - it was just along its end section. However, he did it a second time. This time he placed his finger directly on the little bump in the leather where my big toe has shaped the shoe. Was he being hopeful that it was caused by his own toe? Was he wondering what that bump was?

Once again, I am confronted with evidence of his perceptual abilities: for it was dark outside, where he was - yet he was able to distinguish that bump, in the dimness of the light, not knowing what it was. How observant of him.

It is in actions like this, that one can see the reasoning processes at work in a baby's mind. Were he not curious about the place of his foot in that shoe, he would not have pressed upon the leather. These little things are easily missed by a parent, in this busy modern life of ours - but it is worth watching one's children closely - for so many things become evident about them, if you do.

Have a great parenting day!

(If you would like to learn more of Tiarnan, fourteen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and four months, a scientific child prodigy, or Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, baby genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children. Thanks.)

Tiarnan, the brave

Last night Tiarnan, fourteen months, did something very interesting.

He pointed to a gap between the bed and the wall. He found it curious...like he was asking: "What is down there?"

I took the opportunity to tease him. I slid my hand down the side of the bed, then pretended some unseen monster had caught my hand and started tugging at it, making me thrash around, with a bit of added, appropriate-seeming, noise from my mouth, rather like a dog gnawing a bone.

I suddenly pulled my hand out, unscathed.

He looked at me in a kind of wonder, his eyes wide, his mouth quiet. Then he did something rather brave, considering what he had just seen. He slid his hand slowly down the side of the bed, clearly waiting for the unseen "Thing" to grab a hold of his hand and thrash him around.

Nothing happened.

He turned to me suddenly and said: "Daddy, look! It's gone!" Then he took his hand out.

I pretended to be surprised at this and slid my hand down there again, and began to thrash about, once more, accompanied by my bone-gnawing sound.

He smiled, and understood at once. He put his hand down there...and began to thrash around like me, with his own impression of the bone-gnawing sound. He understood that I had been teasing him. He took his hand out and smiled broadly at me.

What impressed me was the initial courage he showed in putting his hand down there, when I had convinced him, the first time, that some unseen creature would attack his hand. He had seen daddy do it. He had seen what happened to daddy - but he went ahead all the same. Brave boy.

The second time he did it, was also interesting, for it showed how quick he was to understand that it was just a game.

Tiarnan's sentences are also becoming longer. That was an implicit five word utterance. (Daddy, look! It is gone!"). Again, one may note that the structures are grammatically correct - just as his three word sentences were when he was eight months. It is interesting to observe what a good grasp of grammar even a young baby may have. It seems to me that would take a lot of analytical power to work out so young.

(If you would like to know more of Tiarnan or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and four months, and Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan tells mummy how he feels

Yesterday, Syahidah was playing with Fintan and Tiarnan. She looked at Fintan and said: "I love you", to him.

Tiarnan observed this, tilted his head up at his mother and said to her: "I love you".

This recalls the time Tiarnan said as much to me, many months ago...but it was nice to hear it on his lips, for his mother.

There is a warmth in Tiarnan, fourteen months, that is heartening to see: he is a passionate, emotional baby who responds with his heart to the world. In many ways, that is more delightful to see than any measure of intelligence is: for is not goodness of the heart what brings blessings to every life?

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, fourteen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and four months, and Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan completes his nursery rhymes

On the 14th March we were out with Tiarnan, thirteen months, in his stroller.

Tiarnan is a natural tourist and likes nothing better than to see a new vista pass by from the vantage of his snug seat in his stroller. He will peer curiously all around, point and comment. Should anyone be leaving the house, he always makes a great fuss until someone indicates that they are going to take him with them.

Syahidah began a nursery rhyme, which he liked, "Round and round the garden, like a teddy bear, one step..."

"Two steps." he piped up, completing the line. It was a little bit of a surprise since he has never joined in the rhymes before - he has just listened, smiled and laughed.

We tried it again: "Round and round the garden, like a teddy bear, one step..."

"Two steps." he said again, knowing his part and playing his role, with a broad, engaging smile.

I will have to upload a photo of his smile, if I can capture it - for it is so broad it fills his face and bares his teeth endearingly. He has the biggest smile of any of our children. It is the sort of smile that makes strangers want to give him a hug.

We carried on with our walk, and our rhymes, Tiarnan joining in at the appropriate moment. It was a pleasant interlude.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, thirteen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and three months, and Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children. Thanks)

Tiarnan tries inter-species communication

At the Imax theatre, yesterday, there were many giant images of animals projected on the hemispherical screen. Among them were lions - giant gaze filling lions.

Now, what do you think Tiarnan did when he saw a giant lion appear before him? Cry perhaps? Cower away, as any baby might on being confronted by something so alien, bristling with giant teeth?

Nope. He looked up at the great cat and tried to talk to it. "Grrrhh", he said, in a minute and most endearing growl, as if the giant cat would be able to hear him. Tiarnan tried to enter into a dialogue with the cat. He knew lions made such noises and had deduced that was Lion Speak...the language of the lions and thought he would have a go at it.

Sweet.

Tiarnan and the fifty foot animals: Imax

Yesterday, Tiarnan, thirteen months, sat and watched a safari documentary, on Imax.

Perhaps you don't know what Imax is: it is a film format that allows the projection of the image onto a very large curved screen that enfolds the audience, filling the entire field of vision from far left to far right - from high above, to far below. It is not a 360 degrees format because chairs are in the way and audience, too...but it is pretty much as close as you can get in a cinema.

There is another thing about Imax you should know: the images are enormous. Everything is far bigger than it is in a conventional cinema. Every animal was a giant monster. Every vista endless. The scale is what is stunning to an adult. To a young child it is usually frightening.

When Ainan first saw an Imax film, he found it frightening. Fintan was terrified of it, when it came to his turn. Yet, surprisingly, Tiarnan reacted without fear, at all - he just displayed an intense curiosity about the animals on the screen all around him. Tiarnan's reaction was just pure curiosity.

I find it interesting the way each child reacts differently, when exposed to the same stimulus. There are such variations between the children - and yet they are brothers. How much greater, therefore, are the differences between children who are not brothers?

Truly, we humans are a various breed. I find that encouraging: for perhaps there is room among us, for all kinds, and all outlooks and all perceptions. The only battle then, is for us to accept each other - whatever kind we might be. Looking at the world, however, it seems that that battle has only just begun.

(If you would like to learn more of Tiarnan, thirteen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and three months, and Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted children and gifted adults, in general. Thanks.)

The Daily Mail, UK: seekers of the truth?

Are the Daily Mail seekers of or censors of the Truth? I am left to wonder after a recent attempt to comment on one of their stories, online.

You see, two British papers - at least - covered a story about a walking six month old baby. They made a really big story of it. Now, as regular readers of this blog will know, my son Ainan was walking at six months. So I tried to comment on these stories pointing this out and also pointing out that in many other ways my children were more precocious than the child covered (he hadn't started speaking yet, for instance), and yet, oddly, had been ignored by the media.

The Daily Telegraph published my comment. The Daily Mail did not. Now you may say perhaps they have not had time to publish it: well, it is now Wednesday and I tried to comment on Friday. The Daily Telegraph carried my comment eight hours later (they had gone to bed, so had to wait until morning). The Daily Mail has ignored my comment and failed to publish it despite asking on their page: "If you know of a more advanced baby let us know." Well, I let them know...but they didn't want to let any of their readers know. Now, why is this? Could it be because it puts their story into a bit of a shadow? Could it be that I wrote "Singapore" on the location entry...and that they wouldn't want to cover a "Singaporean" above a Brit - not knowing that I grew up in Britain? It is all a little disappointing. You see, I used to read the Daily Mail. I used to enjoy their moral sounding campaigns on many issues. How moral are they being now? Is it moral to censor a story that surpasses one already covered? What would a true journalist do in that circumstance? I would have thought that a real journalist, on hearing of a better story would not censor it, but would actually contact the person concerned and cover it. That is what journalism should be about. Clearly, that is not what the Daily Mail is about these days.

There are some very advanced babies in this world - but curiously, your national newspaper may do nothing to let you learn of them. Interesting isn't it?

I am not impressed.

(If you would like to read about Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and three months, or his gifted brothers, Fintan, three, and Tiarnan, thirteen 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, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan's first adventures in Art

There is something spooky about Tiarnan in that he does things which, if done deliberately would appear to be remarkable - but, we are left to judge - was it deliberate or was it accidental?

This phenomenon occurs when Tiarnan is given a pencil and paper. We have only recently done this. He holds the pencil firmly in his fist but, interestingly, does not scribble on the paper. He applies the pencil to the paper, with control. The first time I saw him do this he drew a heart-shape - and a square: both recognizable. Was that deliberate or not? We have no way of knowing.

Yesterday, however, with his mother, he added a single line to a drawing she had done. Now, again, we are left to wonder at the coincidence of it. Did he intend the line - or was it lucky happenstance? You see my wife had drawn a face without a neck. Tiarnan added a single line. It was not a straight line but one which bent in a rather apt fashion. The odd thing is where he put the line. He drew it in exactly in the right position so that it completed the drawing and gave the face a neck and suggested a chest below. I didn't see him do this. So, when I saw the drawing, I complimented my wife on the interesting way she had drawn the neck. "I didn't do that...Tiarnan did."

That could just be miraculous luck. However, it should be noted that he controlled the pencil very well - it was not a scribble, but a carefully placed line, that looked like it had been fashioned by my wife.

What happened next is, however, very clearly deliberate and indicates Tiarnan's state of mind with regards to exploring Art.

He took each coloured pencil in turn and drew the same straight line on paper, for each one. He did so methodically, drawing one line for each colour and studied the result. He also drew some of them with his left hand and some with his right as if trying to decide which hand was better for this task.

It was interesting to note that he drew the same line with each one: it was as if he wanted to compare the appearance produced by each pencil, by controlling other variables (like what he actually drew). Again, he didn't scribble. Each line was carefully controlled.

So what do we have here? We have a baby who doesn't scribble when given a pencil, but draws careful lines. He is thirteen months old. Could he be an artist, in the making?

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, thirteen months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years and three months, a scientific child prodigy, or Fintan, three, then please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of child prodigy, IQ, gifted education, intelligence, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan and musical nostalgia

It is said that young babies have little memory, but I have many reasons to doubt that. I won't give them all, here, but will just let one story speak on its own.

Tiarnan is thirteen months old, now. Several months ago, he was given a musical penguin, to play with. Everytime a button was pressed it would play a tune. Tiarnan got the chance to play with that toy for perhaps a day, before his older brother, Ainan had an idea for it. Ainan, rather wittily, wanted to know whether the penguin would do well underwater. In particular, he wanted to know if you could hear it underwater. Thus, Ainan took it down to the swimming pool and threw it in the water. Let us just say, this was one penguin that couldn't swim.

That was the last time I saw the penguin in action.

Yesterday, Syahidah, Tiarnan's mother, partly hummed, partly sung a tune. She managed more to capture the rhythm of it than the notes.

At once, Tiarnan looked up and looked around, seeking something. "Toy!", he said.

Tiarnan remembered the penguin toy he had had for a day, before it drowned, some months ago. For the tune on Syahidah's lips was the one it used to play.

Tiarnan got all excited to hear the tune and looked at his mother and said: "Again!"

So, she hummed/sang it again.

It seems that Tiarnan remembers a tune long after it was heard - even though it was heard only briefly. He remembers too where and from which object the tune came. He also possesses a sense of excitement to be so reminded - though it is difficult to identify the source of that. Is it the recognition that excites him? Is it the music? Or did he like the toy and hope that it would be seen "alive" again?

Perhaps I should go quietly to the shop from which it was bought, and buy a dry replacement.

It might be a popular move.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, thirteen months, or his gifted brothers Fintan, three, and Ainan, seven years and three months, a scientific child prodigy, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan invents the practical joke.

Many a time, Tiarnan has observed Ainan's dislike of insects.

Ainan jumps at the sudden appearance of a cockroach, or the like, spooked by them in a primordial fashion. It is the kind of instinct many of us are born with, but grow out of through over-exposure to the situation. Ainan, though, has yet to have the time to grow out of this basic instinct, this fear of the unknown, or the alien.

Tiarnan, however, does not fear them. No animal seems to excite fear, at all in him. All that is excited is curiosity.

About a month ago, Syahidah saw Tiarnan put a grasshopper, which he had found, lying dead, and picked up, fearlessly to play with, into one of Ainan's school shoes. She scolded him for doing so, and took it out. That was the end of it, she thought.

Later on, as Ainan walked with his mother, he turned to her and said: "Mummy, there is something in my shoe.", there was trepidation in his voice.

Syahidah took off his shoe - and, sure enough, there was a grasshopper inside. Tiarnan had replaced it, when his mummy wasn't looking.

To distract Ainan, Syahidah at once launched into a tall tale about her own childhood and how something similar had happened (whether or not it was true I do not know...that wasn't the purpose: distraction was.) Ainan's attention was drawn to the story and away from the dead horror in his shoe and he was able to cope with the discovery.

Knowing Tiarnan, this was done out of a mischievous sense of humour, for he laughs at many a sophisticated thing.

What I find impressive about this, is that, on seeing the grasshopper, he did not ignore it. Nor did he try to eat it. But he planned the creation of his first practical joke, with it. He must have known that Ainan would react with horror on seeing it. He must have seen some humour in surprising his older brother in this way...and he must also have understood that, in placing the grasshopper in the shoe that it would remain there until Ainan stepped into it. There was planning, dark humour, mischief and imagination in this act, all rolled into one. What is also notable is that he did not desist when his mother told him off - but that he had replaced the grasshopper, as soon as his mother's back was turned. All of this indicates quite a degree of sophistication for a twelve month old baby.

I wonder where this dark humour and liking of practical jokes will take him?

I think I had better start checking my shoes, before I put them on, lest he repeat the joke! (He hasn't so far.)

(If you would like to read more about Tiarnan, or Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and three months, or Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, IQ, intelligence, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, baby genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children, in general. Thanks.)

Oddities of Language: Chinese and English

I discovered something very strange today that, alone, might explain the low birth rate in China, if only they were better educated in English.

There is a phrase in Chinese "bei bi", which, as you probably noticed is pronounced in a very similar way to "baby" in English. There is one difference. In English the stress is on the first syllable; in Chinese it is stressed on the second. Now: why should I bother to post to you about this? Well, you see, there is something very odd in this coincidence of sound. The word "baby" on our tongue sounds like the word "bei bi" to a Chinese person - and what does it mean in Chinese? Well, one translation is "ignoble", another attempt at translation I have heard is "despicable".

I wonder what Mandarin speakers think, therefore, when Westerners use the word "ignoble" to describe their children. It is a funny world.

I could post on certain oddities I have noticed, in this part of the world, in addition to my mainstream on giftedness, prodigy and genius. If you found this comment interesting, please say so, so that I might choose to include observations I make on Asia, in future posts. Thanks very much.

Tiarnan recognizes his "Daddy".

About two months ago, when Tiarnan was eleven months old, he caught sight of his brother Fintan's new present.

The present was something intended to comfort Fintan: a pillow in red and blue, with a picture of Superman on it, as the rugged jawed demigod that we all know and love.

Tiarnan looked at the image on the pillow and, at once, said: "Daddy!"

I wasn't there to witness the moment - but it is still one that I will never forget. People talk about the younger siblings of a prodigy having a lot to live up to...well, what about the father having to live up to expectations like Tiarnan's?!

Now, where did I put my costume...

Early bilingual speech: Tiarnan's translations

Two weeks ago, Tiarnan did something I have never heard of a baby doing.

He was then twelve months old. His mother, Syahidah, said to him: "kuching". He immediately said: "cat" - a translation of the Malay word into English. He is making explicit his awareness of the two languages - and stating that they share words with common meaning, though different sound.

He continued this new behaviour later in the day as I was putting him to sleep. I was carrying him up the stairs and I said "tido" to him. He immediately said: "bed". He said it in such a way that he seemed to be correcting me, for he knew that I didn't speak Malay, normally, so why was I using it on him now?

It was notable that the translation came immediately upon the utterance of the word: as if he were playing verbal ping pong - I say a word, he says the translation. It is clear that he is building two good representations of language, with hints at a third - but more of that another time.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and two months, or Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, intelligence, IQ, child prodigy, child genius, baby genius, adult genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children, in general. Thanks.)

Tiarnan invents an alibi

About a month ago, when Tiarnan would have been eleven months old, he invented the alibi.

Our apartment is a duplex, as Americans call it, or a maisonette, as Singaporeans call it. It is split over two levels...well, three actually, one is a mini-level division of the main floor. In consequence, there are two staircases - a minor and a major one. The major one has two flights of stairs and would be quite a challenge for most babies (ie. they would probably hurt themselves). Tiarnan, however, has been training himself in the ways of stairs since he was five months old and is quite capable of handling them.

Although Tiarnan has long mastered stairs, being parents and naturally possessed of imaginations that conjure up all sorts of possible disasters if we don't intervene, we prefer it if he remains on the first floor, much of the time.

A month ago, Syahidah, my wife, caught Tiarnan half-way up the main stairs.

"Come down Tiarnan!" she said.

"Tido.", he replied, meaning he wished to sleep, in Malay. He immediately followed this up with a mischievous grin. Why? Well, it was the middle of the day, and "sleep" was the last thing on Tiarnan's mind. Tiarnan had invented an alibi - a plausible reason for why he was doing what he was doing, which, however, was simply not true.

Syahidah saw through it, of course and he duly came down. What was interesting, however, was that he had had the imagination to invent a plausible excuse for his action, that was likely to be accepted. This implies that he understands the perspectives of others - that he knows that to go upstairs to sleep would be perceived as a reasonable cause for his action.

Why was he really going up? Probably to play since there are many different and interesting places, textures and objects up there.

It should be noted that his behaviour is self-invented and not modelled on what others have done to him - since we haven't engaged in any sort of ploys with him. If he invents a ploy, therefore, it is his own doing.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan or his gifted brothers, including Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and two months, and Fintan, three, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, intelligence, IQ, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, baby genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children in general. Thanks.)

Scientific Child Prodigy - a guide

Welcome to those who are new to Scientific Child Prodigy.

It has come to my attention that some site visitors are not familiar with Ainan's story. Ainan is a prodigious young scientist. He has demonstrated this in public examinations and is the youngest person ever to have passed an O level, as verified by the Singapore Book of Records. He is at work on higher level material, presently. Indeed he has been a student of Chemistry, at Singapore Polytechnic, for over a year.

At 7 years old, Ainan was accepted into the GEP, Gifted Education Programme, after passing all their tests. They advanced him about a decade in Chemistry by placing him in classes at Raffles College and other institutions. However, the GEP had a different vision for Ainan than us. They wanted to focus on theoretical education, whereas Ainan was more interested in experimental Chemistry. We were doing all the theoretical work he needed at home. Their offer was, therefore, redundant. Thus, within a year we gave up working with the GEP. It was our decision and a good one.

I feel it necessary to point this out because some people don't take the time to find out the facts. This has led to misunderstandings by them. I hope that this clarifies matters for those who have shown they need that clarification. Thanks.

You may be looking for our IMDb listings. IMDB is the Internet Movie Database for film and tv professionals. If you would like to look at my IMDb listing for which another fifteen credits are to be uploaded, (which will probably take several months before they are accepted) please go to: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3438598/ As I write, the listing is new and brief - however, by the time you read this it might have a dozen or a score of credits...so please do take a look. My son, Ainan Celeste Cawley, also has an IMDb listing. His is found at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3305973/ My wife, Syahidah Osman Cawley, has a listing as well. Hers is found at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3463926/

There are many posts and it is easy to overlook some that would be of interest, given the simple linking structure of this site. Therefore I am going to point your attention towards some pages which could be of interest:

For the first words of my scientific child prodigy son, Ainan Celeste Cawley:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/first-words-of-child-prodigy.html

For his precociously early physical development, crawling at four months, walking at six:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/earliest-walker-earliest-talker.html

For his ability to see future developments of present science and technology:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/is-genius-prophetic.html

For Ainan's tendency to challenge himself with huge projects demanding attention and ingenuity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/grand-ambition-of-genius.html

For one of the signs of genius Ainan shows, and your kid may too:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/signs-of-genius-arcane-knowledge.html


For the early physical development of his younger brother, Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/baby-tiarnan-crawls-downstairs.html

and more on his baby athleticism:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/athleticism-in-baby-opens-door-to.html

On why the gifted, geniuses, prodigies, and savants are important:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/prodigy-genius-and-gifted-why-are-they.html

On the peer group of prodigies: who do they relate to? Who can they best communicate with?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/peer-group-of-prodigy-intelligent.html

On the scepticism that the gifted sometimes face, when others learn of their abilities:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/did-leonardo-da-vinci-exist.html

On leadership and the way it shows in my son Fintan Nadym Cawley, 3.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/leader-of-pack_25.html

Why we need more gifted education for children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/gifted-childrens-education-needs-more.html

Musical gift and how it may show itself in a baby, from Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley's example:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/baby-who-sings-himself-to-sleep.html

On Tiarnan's talkative nature and precocious speech development:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/talkative-baby-genius-verbal.html

Syahidah Osman Cawley, the mother of my three sons, including prodigy Ainan Celeste Cawley:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/09/heresmummy.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley's like of writing science books mainly in Chemistry and Physics:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/youngest-science-author.html

The socratic questioning of Ainan Celeste Cawley, as teacher of his father:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/socratic-questions-of-genius.html

The tragic neglect and waste of human gifts, that is a global problem:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/gifted-but-neglected-global-problem.html

On the possibility of photographic or eidetic memory:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/photographic-memory-myth-or-fact.html

On the need for homeschooling for gifted children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/considering-homeschooling-education-at.html

On helping grow the audience of Scientific Child Prodigy - a new blog:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-helping-grow-audience.html

A photo of Daddy Cawley, and a little introduction to my life:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/heresdaddy-in-singapore.html

On the difficulty of finding quality teaching in modern schools, particularly for gifted children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/education-what-education-teachers-who_13.html

On the need for mutual support in the gifted community:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/gifted-community-togetherness-is-all.html

On the adult reactions to a gifted child, a prodigy or a genius:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/genius-child-and-adult-envy.html

The artistic works of Ainan Celeste Cawley's uncle, Hafiz Osman, a Singaporean artist:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/paintings-sculptures-installations-art.html

An introduction to Hafiz Osman, Ainan's artist uncle:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/hafiz-osman-painter-sculptor.html

The problem of plagiarism that faces all creative people and how it affects your creative child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/plagiarism-and-creativity-original.html

Making time for creative work: genius needs its space...a tale about not wasting creative gifts:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/creativity-self-expression-and-time.html

The value and limits of iq testing: should you test your gifted child or not?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/iq-testing-to-test-or-not-to-test.html

The interior designs and designed objects of Ainan Celeste Cawley's artist uncle, Hafiz Osman:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/interior-designs-and-object-designs-of.html

Hafiz Osman's birthday surprise from an idea by Syahidah Osman Cawley:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/hafiz-osmans-art-birthday-surprise.html

The truth about whether the parents of prodigies are pushy or not:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/prodigy-and-pushy-parents-myth-or.html

The relationship between the iq of the parents and the children and how this relates to the inheritance of genius iq:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/genius-iq-and-genetic-inheritance.html

More of Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley's athletic progress and a discussion of Ainan's baby prowess in earlier days:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/babies-who-climb-early-athleticism.html

The internet conversation, the merits of posting a comment and the value of sharing:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/blogging-and-internet-dialogue.html

The natural confederacy that exists among the less bright, against the bright:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/confederacy-of-dunces.html

Who is the biggest bully in the school? An eye-opening discussion of a rarely recognized problem:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/biggest-bully-in-school.html

Are celebrities gifted? Do stars really shine intellectually or is it just the gloss of their make-up?
Get the truth on Hollywood stars and iq:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/celebrity-gift-or-creative-genius.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley, six, likes to invent his own scientific experiments, here is one:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/science-experiment-crash-test-dummies.html

Moderation in changes in the environment of a gifted child, preferred to address problems:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/parenting-prodigy-gifted-moderation.html

Heroism in children: how young does it show itself. Here is Fintan Nadym Cawley's own show of bravery:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/fintan-cawley-child-hero.html

A brief description of my blog and its range of contents, far and wide in the realm of genius:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/valentine-cawleys-blog-child-prodigy.html

How young do babies show high emotional intelligence? Here is Tiarnan displaying high EQ:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/emotional-intelligence-in-baby-self.html
What is the teacher's point of view on gifted children? Can they see a gifted child for what they are?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/teaching-gifted-educational.html

We all search the internet. Some do so with prejudice in mind. Here is one example:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/internet-google-search-and.html

Copyright protection is vital to all who create. Here is a discussion of Copyscape, a tool to protect against copyright breach and a mention of the financial penalties for breach:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/copyscape-and-copyright-protection.html

The prodigy paradox: the child prodigies view on educational challenge:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/prodigy-paradox-education-is-easy-when.html

Fatherhood brings much beauty into one's life: here is one such moment with Tiarnan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/being-daddy-parenting-highs.html

Child prodigies find it hard, in some countries, to get an education, the UK provides an example:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/oxford-university-child-prodigies-out.html

Sometimes it is hard to know where to go for information on the internet - here are some links to useful gifted resources. This will expand over time.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/gifted-links-resources-for-genius.html

True success is rarely found by people - because they approach it the wrong way, here is a better way:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/secret-of-success-be-yourself.html

Are all children gifted? Some PC spokespeople would have you believe so. Here is my take:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/all-children-are-gifted.html

On the value of patience when searching an internet site - blog or not:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/rewards-of-patience-are-sweet.html

Child prodigy is a little understood and little studied phenomenon. The academic authorities speak with little actual knowledge of the breed. So who is best to consult on the matter?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/authority-on-child-prodigy.html

Some famous people attack child prodigy, using poorly constructed arguments, and weak reasoning. It is one element of the anti-gifted agenda that is found in many places. Here is my refutation of Malcolm Gladwell's recent attack on child prodigy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/malcolm-gladwell-and-child-prodigy.html

Many of my blog readers read in detail each and every post and spend quite some time on the blog site. Here are the details of the present record-holders, stars of the blog reading world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/record-breaking-internet-blog-readers.html

Malcolm Gladwell believes that only adults are gifted doers, and that gifted children are just "gifted learners". Ainan shows otherwise. Here I ask you to share your experiences about your gifted child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/are-you-parent-of-gifted-child.html

The Boy Who Knew Too Much: A Child Prodigy - how my blog got its name:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-my-blog-got-its-name.html

Gifts run in families. One of my relatives has the gifts of a mathematical savant - but is profoundly gifted, as well. Here I tell a story about his savant-like gift in action:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/josh-cawley-mathematical-savant-who.html

For a discussion of what goes into an actor's talents, thespian genius and the difference between stage actors and film stars, please go to:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-intelligent-are-actors-thespian.html

There are two basic types of thinker, the high IQ convergent thinker and the creative divergent thinker, here I discuss the differences and their uses in life and society:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/convergent-thinker-divergent-thinker.html

I live in Singapore. This is a city about which people have a certain view - but it has other traits, too. Here I talk of two observations of Singapore - the people and the weather.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/singapore-city-fire-and-rain.html

Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley is my nine month old son. He speaks at the most surprising moments, his little voice emerging from silence, without warning, as if to say: "Surprise!" Here I write of one such surprise:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/words-of-love-on-tiarnans-tongue.html

All gifted children are special. Sometimes we are led to believe that they are just like the other gifted children. Not so. Here I speak of a fallacy in the way gifted children are viewed by psychologists:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/all-gifted-children-are-unique.html

My site is read by many different kinds of people, but one particular group is obvious: academics and their spouses at Universities and research institutes across the world. Here I speak of something I have observed about them:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/silence-of-academia-curious.html

Baby Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley is nine months and counting. Literally. (Though he began to do so some time ago, actually, this is my first post about it).

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/numerate-dreams-of-baby-tiarnan.html

Sometimes it is the teacher who is the bully in school. Here is a success story of a gifted child whose parents took action:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/triumph-over-teacher-bullying.html

Rembrandt is probably the greatest Dutch painter of all time. Here I take a brief look at him and his artistic gifts for reasons that will become clear in a later post:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/rembrandt-greatest-dutch-artist-of-all.html

Here I discuss two gifted cultures: America and Singapore and examine the differing emphasis placed on achievement and IQ in the two nations:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/two-gifted-cultures-america-and.html

You can earn $20,000 USD per gifted family by appearing in a TV show on gifted children in the US. You must be a US resident to appear. Details follow:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/casting-call-us-20000-for-gifted.html

A TV show documentary on gifted children and their families contacted me: here is a further post on the $20,000 USD opportunity for your family:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/tv-show-is-documentary.html

Differing educational cultures welcome gifted boys or girls in different ways. Here I write of how my gifted child, scientific child prodigy, Ainan Celeste Cawley has been welcomed, in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/welcoming-gifted-culture-of-acceptance.html

President George W. Bush came to Singapore to give a speech addressed to the whole of South-East Asia - and to have pleasant dinner at the Istana (the Palace of Singapore):

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/president-bush-is-in-singapore.html

Often gifted adults are not well treated in the work place: they are greeted with jealousy by their less gifted brethren - or sometimes worse. Here is one story of what can happen to a gifted working adult (example in Singapore):

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/gifted-adults-in-workplace.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley is shows not only the nature of a prodigy, in being prodigious, but also the nature of a genius: in being creative, and thinking of new ideas, beyond what he knows. Here he invents the principle of optoelectronics, without prior knowledge of it:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/ainan-invents-optoelectronics.html

For an account of Ainan Celeste Cawley's tendency to write pages and pages of chemical equations daily, in fullest detail:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/ainan-cawleys-chemical-equations.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley has an interest in the history of science: how and why science came about

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/history-of-science-ainans-fascination.html

Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley, is a relatively verbal baby. Here he shows an understanding that different languages may be semantically equivalent, in a trilingual conversation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/trilingual-conversation-with-baby.html

Baby Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley is quite precocious in his movement, here he tackles walking upstairs, at nine months old:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/baby-tiarnan-walks-upstairs.html

Singapore is obsessed with science and technology. Here I write of a public science education initiative:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/singaporean-public-education-science.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley has been six for one whole year. This is an account of his seventh birthday party, with a space adventure theme:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/ainans-seventh-birthday-space.html

Happy Thanksgiving America: I hope you had a great day!

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/happy-thanksgiving.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley is an incessant inventor of all things electrical, mechanical and chemical. Here I discuss his regular drawings/blueprints of new machines and devices:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/inventor-electrical-mechanical.html

One reader wondered in his search terms, how to tell if a child is a prodigy, here I answer him:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-your-child-prodigy.html

Creativity is the foundation of genius, but is it appreciated in the education system?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/problem-of-creativity-examinations.html

Genius is a mysterious and wonderful human attribute. It is the rarest of gifts - but is it correlated with IQ? Here Rembrandt is used as an example, to examine the issue:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/was-rembrandt-genius.html

Some see the wonder in our story and question whether the Cawley family is real. Here is my answer to those who puzzle at the tale of a prodigy and his family:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/is-cawley-family-real.html

Every child dreams, but of what does a genius child dream? Here I tell of one dream of a child genius - or at least, a single remark from one:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/dreams-of-child-genius.html

Syahidah Osman and Valentine Cawley met by chance, ten years ago: here I comment on this anniversary.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/11/tenth-anniversary-of-chance-meeting.html

A passion for numbers defines many who go on to become highly adept at mathematics, here I observe my child prodigy son, Ainan Celeste Cawley's response to numbers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/passion-for-numbers-numeracy.html

Genius is allied to social isolation and solitude. Are geniuses solitary figures? Here is my view on genius:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/creative-genius-and-social-isolation.html

Leonardo Da Vinci may well be the greatest Universal Genius of all time. Here are his last words:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/leonardo-da-vincis-last-words.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley has an interest in geology, minerals and stones in general:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/diamonds-and-dolomite-mineral.html

Ainan is replete with rare knowledge - and beautiful thoughts about it. Astronomy is one of his interests. Here is Ainan on our Sun and its hidden nature:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/song-of-sun-celestial-music.html

Fintan Nadym Cawley, three, is a boy of personal gifts. Here is a tale of how he took the role of a motivational speaker, one day, showing that he has social gifts that evidence emotional intelligence at work:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/youngest-motivational-speaker-in-world.html

Tiarnan is an athletic baby. Here I write of another milestone in his motor development: walking downstairs unassisted - and an acrobatic feat that he does with a wall, a sofa and a split-level apartment:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/tiarnan-walks-downstairs-unassisted.html

Ainan Celeste Cawley, seven years, and two weeks, is a scientific child prodigy, with a liking of designing chemicals: here I speak of a recent molecular design:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/molecular-designer-chemical-genius-at.html

Tiarnan Hasyl Cawley is a ten month old toddler - he is also rather quick of hand and eye. Here I tell of one example of his quickness - and his poor taste in food:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/fast-food-faster-baby-tiarnan.html

As babies grow, they gradually come to assert their own personalities. Here, Tiarnan shows that he knows what he wants and knows how to tell Daddy what to do:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/tiarnan-tells-daddy-what-to-do.html

Babies are usually unaware of the dangers of the world. Tiarnan, however, is different. Here he shows his alertness to what is dangerous - and does something about it.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/words-of-warning-sense-of-danger.html

Some parents over-timetable their children. Here I discuss the importance of play for a child's development:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/importance-of-play-for-children.html

If you have arrived off a search engine, in search of particular information, here is some advice about finding it, on my blog:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/search-engine-traffic-advice.html

What is the difference between a "gifted child" and a child prodigy?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/gifted-child-and-prodigy-difference.html

What is a genius? Is genius just high IQ?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-genius-is-iq-enough.html

How is a child prodigy perceived by the general public? How do they react to a prodigy's abilities?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/public-reactions-to-prodigy.html

The Pioneer 10 anomaly is a modern scientific mystery. Here is Ainan's first thought on it:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/pioneer-10-anomaly-and-ainans.html

How is genius received by women?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-is-genius-perceived-welcomed-or.html

Why do I write this blog?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-do-i-write-this-blog.html

Kindness: how valuable is it? Is it the greatest virtue?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/value-of-kindness.html

Advice on the early speech of her child, at six weeks - and how to handle it:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/advice-for-jena-early-speech.html

Some people have misunderstood my question on Rousseau's observation, here I try to correct that:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/rousseau-correction-of.html

My wife observed one good reason to marry a Caucasian (if you are Asian):

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-marry-caucasian.html

A true gift should emerge naturally from the child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/natural-emergence-of-gift.html

Some people are polymathically gifted: is this better than being of a single gift?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/are-many-gifts-better-than-one.html

My policy on comment posts on my blog - a necessary good:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/policy-on-comment-posts.html

Fintan and the "Crocodile"

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/fintan-and-crocodile.html

Merry Christmas everyone:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/merry-christmas-to-world.html

Fintan, three, is a very sweet boy. Here is his reaction to Christmas.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/christmas-in-fintans-words.html

Is it better to be gifted and isolated or part of the "gifted community", well that depends...

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/gifted-isolation-or-gifted-community.html

Tiarnan is a perceptive child and a visual one, here we see him interpret a shadow:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/meaning-of-shadow.html

An earthquake in Taiwan has disrupted internet connections in South-east Asia:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/taiwanese-earthquake-and-internet.html

Ainan likes to build things - mini civil engineering projects. Here we learn of the fate of one project:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/civil-engineer-and-godzilla.html

Fintan is ever the brave boy, here is a tale of his undauntedness:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/fintans-christmas-request.html

Ainan is a molecular designer. Here he discusses one problem with his molecules:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/12/ainan-and-molecules-that-may-never-be.html

Here is how we saw in the New Year with our three boys:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/fireworks-at-marina-singapore.html

Tiarnan, eleven months, hails a taxi:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnan-hails-taxi.html

Back to school, for Ainan: some thoughts on primary school and the gifted.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/back-to-school.html

On being a father of three:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-being-father-of-three.html

Tiarnan, eleven months, goes vacuum cleaning:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnan-and-uncooperative-vacuum.html

Is education necessary for success?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-education-necessary-for-success.html

Tiarnan has an eye for Art and an understanding of representation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnan-and-animals.html

What is the demeanour of a young child prodigy like?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/attitudes-of-young-prodigy.html

Is a big family bad for the IQ of its members?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/is-big-family-bad-for-iq.html

Leonardo Da Vinci: did he see the world differently to others?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/leonardos-speed-of-perception.html

Tiarnan, in training:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnans-training-regime.html

The American and UK style education are different, here I look at some of the ways they differ:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/comparative-education-america-and-uk.html

Tiarnan's seeks out music - and reacts to it, emotionally:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnans-sensitivity-to-music.html

Are online games an education...or a threat to it?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/are-online-games-educational.html

Tiarnan's first birthday party:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnan-at-safari.html

Some people get stressed easily, others are cool under pressure: which is Ainan?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/observation-of-ainans-composure-under.html

Fintan shows his sweetness of nature in many ways, most days:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/fintans-sweetness-of-character.html

Are there any advantages to being a child prodigy?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/advantages-of-being-child-prodigy.html

How young can a child feel a sense of loss when someone is no longer around?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnans-sense-of-loss.html

Tiarnan often manages to surprise with his understanding of the world, here is one example:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnan-and-wiring.html

Prodigies and savants both possess remarkable abilities, but what is the difference between them?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/prodigy-and-savant-difference.html

Fintan can be wise in surprising ways, here he makes a social judgement:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/fintan-advises-mummy.html

Can a baby tell the time?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/tiarnan-and-time.html

Who is the brightest child in the class?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/01/quietest-child-is-often-brightest.html

The importance of a good teacher, for every child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/importance-of-good-teacher.html

Elitism: a dangerous concept

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/elitism-is-dangerous-word.html

How to go about homeschooling in a nation that has no tradition of it?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/first-steps-to-homeschooling.html

Some babies love to climb, a little too much, Tiarnan is one such:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/tiarnan-baby-mountaineer.html

Who does one turn to, to secure provision for one's gifted child? Well, how about one's Member of Parliament?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/letter-to-parliament.html

Singapore Parliament answers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/parliament-answers.html

Are practical children and gifted children two different types?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/practical-and-gifted.html

What good is high IQ?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-good-is-high-iq.html

Who is a genius?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/who-is-genius.html

Ainan's admission into the Gifted Education Programme, Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/its-official-gifted-education-programme.html

Tiarnan invents the idea of an expletive:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/tiarnan-invents-expletives.html

How early can a child begin to read?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/early-reading-first-word-recognition.html

How do educational authorities behave towards parents? Here is Singapore in action:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-make-parents-unhappy-singapore.html

The result of Ainan's Chemistry Conference:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/ainans-chemistry-conference.html

Fintan sometimes says the unexpected:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/fintan-prophet-speaks.html

The significance of the Year of the Golden Pig, for Singaporeans:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/year-of-golden-pig.html

Raising a gifted child has unexpected costs:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/hidden-price-of-giftedness-books.html

Fintan has his own way of speaking and thinking - here is one anecdote:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/fintanism-fintans-means-of-expression.html

Bestselling books for a genius boy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/bestselling-books-for-genius-boy.html

At what age do children make alibis for themselves? Here Tiarnan does so:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/tiarnan-invents-alibi.html

What is President Bush's IQ? The IQ of leaders:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/president-bushs-iq.html

The Gifted Education Programme, Singapore, is interested in our son. Here are the latest developments:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/gifted-education-programme-singapore.html

The right to know about your child, in gifted education:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/right-to-know-in-gifted-education.html

Tiarnan shows his personality when he meets "Sleeping Beauty":

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/tiarnan-and-sleeping-beauty.html

The chemistry of charisma: Ainan at play

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/chemistry-of-charisma.html

Do gifted children learn their observed quietness?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/do-gifted-children-learn-quietness.html

Ainan is to be "radically accelerated" - but is it really accelaration?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/radical-acceleration-that-isnt.html

Fintan displays unusual social skills for one so young. Here he tries a bit of "personal coaching":

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/fintan-mummys-personal-coach.html

Tiarnan has developed an interesting view of his father:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/02/tiarnan-recognizes-his-daddy.html

Comparative education: how an American and a Singaporean High School compare:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/comparative-education-singapore-high.html

Tiarnan is inventive in many ways. Here he invents the practical joke:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnans-invents-practical-joke.html

What does a boy genius read?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/what-does-boy-genius-read.html

What is NUS High School?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/nus-high-school-singapore-what-is-it.html

The NUS High School meeting:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/nus-high-school-meeting.html

What people think of a child prodigy's father - one aspect:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/child-prodigys-father-what-people-think.html

How do people react to a child prodigy in Singapore?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/reaction-to-child-prodigy-singapore.html

Should child prodigies be given a chance to develop their skills?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/child-prodigy-allowed-to-develop-or-not.html

Fintan has acute vision and powers of perception:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/fintans-range-of-perception-eagle-eyed.html

Fintan's powers of perception, further examined:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/further-observations-on-fintans.html

How should a gifted child be educated: broadly or deeply?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-educate-child-prodigies-and.html

Ainan is ever experimenting. Here he surprises me:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ainans-experimental-flair-practical.html

Fintan, has many surprising qualities, here is one:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/unexpected-early-reader.html

Ainan considers the future of science:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ainan-and-future-of-science.html

Who are the staff at NUS High School?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/nus-high-school-academic-staff.html

Life with Fintan is filled with funny moments, here is one:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/who-is-hero-of-story.html

The little Singaporean and the maid:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/little-singaporean-and-maid.html

Tiarnan is beginning to show an interest in and ability for, Art:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnans-first-adventures-in-art.html

Ainan has a solution to the Earth's environmental problems:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/environmentalist-solution-to-earths.html

The great IQ con:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/great-iq-con.html

Tiarnan has good fine motor control, here he shows it, at work:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnans-fine-motor-control.html

The Flynn Effect: are we all getting smarter?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/flynn-effect-are-we-all-getting-smarter.html

I tried to comment on a Daily Mail story:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/daily-mail-uk-seekers-of-truth.html

Tiarnan tries inter-species communication:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnan-tries-inter-species.html

Of imagination and morality: a lesson from the classroom.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-lessons-from-classroom-morality.html

The Stanford University EPGY program comes to Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/stanford-university-epgy-in-singapore.html

Tiarnan's speed of reaction, saves the day:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnans-speed-of-reaction.html

The Daily Mail censored my comment on their website. Do they have a policy of censorship?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/daily-mail-censorship-policy-of.html

There are unique difficulties in parenting a prodigy child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/difficulty-of-parenting-prodigy-child.html

Tiarnan knows his animals:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnan-knows-his-animals.html

Fintan goes swimming, in his own way:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/fintan-goes-swimming.html

Raymond Ravaglia, of Stanford University's EPGY discusses the basic flaw in American education:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ravaglia-on-american-education-and.html

Fintan's perspective on the adult world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/fintans-perspective-on-adult-world.html
Ainan experiments with walking on water, scientifically:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ainan-walks-on-water-experiment.html

Child prodigies and the media, Ainan's experience:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/child-prodigies-and-media.html

Tiarnan invents a new way to climb:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnan-invents-new-way-to-climb.html

The effect of fame on customer service:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/effect-of-fame-on-customer-service.html

The effect of fame: an encounter at a supermarket:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/encounter-at-supermarket-singapore.html

Tiarnan reacts to being in the news:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnan-reacts-to-being-in-news.html

On estimating ratio IQ from developmental markers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ratio-iq-and-developmental-markers.html

All examining Boards are not the same. Here's what happened when we found out:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/differences-between-examining-boards.html

How does ratio IQ estimation compare to IQ testing?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/ratio-iq-estimation-versus-iq-tests.html
How to test for IQ, without taking a test for IQ:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/iq-testing-without-iq-testing.html

Tiarnan is a brave boy, here he shows how:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnan-brave.html

How good is Ainan's comprehension of textbooks:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-good-is-ainans-comprehension-of.html

The gifted and the future of society:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/gifted-and-future-of-society.html

Tiarnan tries Daddy's shoes:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/tiarnan-tries-daddys-shoes.html

Fintanism and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/03/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and.html

Singapore's IQ distribution and giftedness:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/singapores-iq-distribution-and.html

Singapore shopping: a land of smiles...but why?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/singapore-shopping-with-smile.html

Fintan's creative perception - seeing the world with artist's eyes:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintans-creative-perception.html

The incommensurability of education systems:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/incommensurability-of-education-systems.html

Fintan experiences someone's cowardice in the playground:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/cowardice-in-playground.html

Do geniuses always get credit for their work?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/do-geniuses-get-credit-for-their-work.html

Hwa Chong Institution:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/hwa-chong-institution.html

Singapore's experience of the gifted:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/singapores-experience-of-gifted.html

Can a child's imagination ever be too much?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/childs-imagination-can-it-be-too-much.html

Fintan spots a dinosaur in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintan-spots-dinosaur.html

Ainan explores mathematics, for himself:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/ainan-explores-mathematics.html

Why: "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-boy-who-knew-too-much.html

Why: "Perhaps too many gifts."?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/why-perhaps-too-many-gifts.html

Fintan's cartoon watching. What is special about it?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintans-cartoon-watching.html

A dinosaur in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/dinosaur-in-singapore.html

Fintan's reaction to my blogging:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintans-reaction-to-blog.html

Does everyone reach out a helping hand to a prodigy?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-everyone-helps-prodigy.html

How fast can a man move when his child is in danger?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/power-of-unconscious.html

Fintan shows his internal aesthetic:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintan-choose-his-colours.html

Raffles Institution offer to help:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/raffles-institution-offer-to-help.html

All rounders and specialists:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/on-all-rounders-and-specialists.html

Those who will never understand the imaginative:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/those-who-will-never-understand.html

Reactions to Ainan in Indonesia:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/reactions-to-ainan-in-indonesia.html

Leonardo da Vinci's view of Humanity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/leonardos-view-of-humanity.html

David Beckham, footballer, legend - and brilliant guy?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/david-beckham-footballer-and-legend.html

Tiarnan arranges time with his mummy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/tiarnan-arranges-time-with-mummy.html

Ainan's gum arabic flow experiment:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/ainans-gum-arabic-flow-experiment.html

Tiarnan, the defiant:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/tiarnan-defiant.html

Malay translations of blog posts:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/malay-translations-of-blog-posts.html

Front page news, Malaysia:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/front-page-news-malaysia.html

A quiet trip to Nanyang Technological University, NTU, for Ainan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/quiet-trip-to-ntu.html

Ainan's charity work day - his first volunteer experience:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/ainans-charity-work-day.html

The tyranny of examination grades:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/tyranny-of-examination-grades.html

Fintan the athletic child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintan-athletic-child.html

On taking several IQ tests - which result counts?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/taking-several-iq-tests.html

Tiarnan's concern for his Daddy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/tiarnans-concern-for-daddy.html

Ainan, an unconscious actor?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/ainan-unconscious-actor.html

Fintan and the secrets of the Sun:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/fintan-and-secrets-of-sun.html

Tiarnan and the piano:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/tiarnan-and-piano.html

IQ and wealth: Zagorsky study:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/iq-and-wealth-zagorsky-study.html

Searching for a tutor:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/searching-for-tutor.html

Karl Benz, child prodigy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/karl-benz-child-prodigy.html

Tiarnan, the little policeman:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/04/tiarnan-little-policeman.html

Raffles and the laboratory:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/raffles-and-laboratory.html

The value of child prodigies:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/value-of-child-prodigies.html

Tiarnan of the smile:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/tiarnan-of-smile.html

Fintan's world of the imagination:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/fintans-world-of-imagination.html

What would the world be if the jealous held the reigns of policy?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/on-jealousy-and-policy.html

Brotherly love and solidarity: Tiarnan's demonstration.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/brotherly-love-and-solidarity.html

The art of communication, Tiarnan style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/art-of-communication-tiarnan-style.html

Careers advice for a gifted child: lessons from Syahidah's life:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/careers-advice-for-gifted-child.html

Who does Valentine Cawley look like? A celebrity search:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/celebrity-look-likes-famous-faces.html

Further photographic correlations of Valentine Cawley:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/valentine-cawley-celebrity-look-likes.html

Intellectual stars and national success:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/intellectual-stars-and-national-success.html

Leonardo da Vinci: musician:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/leonardo-da-vinci-musician.html

Speed learning practical chemistry:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/speed-learning-practical-chemistry.html

Welcome readers from Italy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/welcome-readers-from-italy.html

The importance of personality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/importance-of-personality.html

Child safety: window grilles are a life-saver. Here is Tiarnan's reason why:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/child-safety-window-grilles-life-saver.html

Is sweetness of character innate? Fintan's example:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-sweetness-of-character-innate.html

Berita Harian, Singapore: front page news, again:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/berita-harian-singapore-front-page-news.html

Ainan invents mathematical theories and formula:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/ainan-invents-mathematical-theories-and.html

Babelfish translation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/babelfish-page-translation-for-you.html

A day out at Singapore Zoo:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/singapore-zoo-day-out.html

Technorati ranking for scientific child prodigy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/technorati-ranking-for-scientific-child.html

A close encounter of the Bird Kind.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/close-encounter-of-bird-kind.html

Albert Einstein on gifted isolation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/albert-einstein-on-gifted-isolation.html

20 Minutos (the leading Spanish daily by readership) on Ainan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/20-minutos-on-ainan-celeste-cawley.html

Genetic discrimination against the gifted:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/genetic-discrimination-against-gifted.html

Are children image conscious?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/05/are-children-image-conscious.html

Giftedness and "palm-reading":

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/giftedness-and-palm-reading.html

The meaning of a child who paces:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/child-who-paces-about.html

What is a savant?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-is-savant-syndrome.html

Does water boil at room temperature?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/does-water-boil-at-room-temperature.html

Tiarnan's love of nature:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tiarnans-love-of-nature.html

The need for greater empathy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/need-for-greater-empathy.html

Delayed gratification and achievement:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/delayed-gratification-and-achievement.html

Fintan sings his own songs:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/fintan-sings-his-own-songs.html

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Child Prodigy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/johann-carl-friedrich-gauss.html

Tiarnan's hungry tummy - and his solution:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tiarnans-hungry-tummy.html

On being an academic reference:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-being-academic-reference.html

La Vanguardia, Spain - coverage of Ainan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-vanguardia-spain-barcelona.html

A high IQ promotes longevity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/high-iq-promotes-longevity.html

When advice, is not advice:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/when-advice-is-not-advice.html

La Stampa, Italy on Ainan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/la-stampa-italy.html

Speed of processing and exams:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/speed-of-processing-and-exams.html

The importance of attribution:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/importance-of-attribution.html

The tale of a cowboy hat:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tale-of-cowboy-hat.html

Are geniuses ever satisfied?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/are-geniuses-ever-satisfied.html

News in the Philippines, in People Tonight:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/peoples-tonight-philippine-news.html

Genius and academic success:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/genius-and-academic-success.html

The tyranny of tests, UK style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tyranny-of-tests.html


Encouraging and discouraging creativity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/encouraging-and-discouraging-creativity.html

Fintan's fourth birthday:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/birthday-of-singapore-cowboy.html

Tiarnan and the colours of the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tiarnan-and-colours-of-world.html

Tiarnan and the meaning of Art:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/tiarnan-and-meaning-of-art.html

Starting at NUS High:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/starting-at-nus-high.html

Prodigies and their parents:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/06/prodigies-and-their-parents.html

Educational testing and intellectual performance:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/educational-testing-and-intellectual.html

Tiarnan's taste in food:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/tiarnans-taste-in-food.html

The Universality of intelligence:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/universality-of-intelligence.html

The problem with Universities:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/problem-with-universities.html

NUS High: Is education appropriate?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/nus-high-is-education-appropriate.html

Let children play:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/let-children-play.html

Gifted people in Australia:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-am-unable-to-post-title-on-this-post.html

Is there news of Ainan in Venezuala?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/is-there-news-in-venezuala-i-ask.html

Ainan on the origin of life:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/origin-of-life.html

Death on the roads, Fintan's view:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/death-on-roads-childs-view.html

On haircuts and conformity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-haircuts-and-conformity.html

The early signs of an artist:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/signs-of-artist.html

NUS High School responds to Ainan's situation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/nus-high-school-responds.html

Volksblad, the South African newspaper, writes of Ainan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/volksblad-south-african-newspaper.html
Ainan counts calories:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/ainan-counts-calories.html

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Ainan's and Fintan's reaction:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/harry-potter-order-of-phoenix.html

Ainan speaks out on scientific responsibility:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/ainan-on-scientific-responsibility.html

Tiarnan tests the temperature, in his own way:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/tiarnan-tests-temperature.html

IQ and testosterone in children, the correlations:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/iq-and-testosterone-in-children.html

Tiarnan and the natural world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/tiarnan-and-natural-world.html

Fintan on teaching reading:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/fintan-on-teaching-reading.html

The country where love is banned:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/where-love-is-banned.html

The Open University is closed:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/open-university-is-closed.html

Is school food junk food?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/is-school-food-junk-food.html

Fintan's school report:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/fintans-school-report.html

Genius and long-term relationships:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/07/genius-and-long-term-relationships.html

Does Singapore value diversity?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/does-singapore-value-diversity.html

Of bondage and educational servitude:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/of-bondage-and-educational-servitude.html

Language school, Singapore, Tiarnan style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/language-school-singapore-tiarnan-style.html

Ainan's recipe for Fish and Chips:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/ainans-recipe-for-fish-and-chips.html

Mira Sorvino and scientific fame:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/mira-sorvino-and-scientific-fame.html

Teresa Hsu, Singaporean Supercentenarian:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/teresa-hsu-singaporean-supercentenarian.html

Of genius, wealth and poverty:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/of-genius-wealth-and-poverty.html

Ainan's love of abstruse chemicals:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/ainans-love-of-abstruse-chemicals.html

A life of achievement:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/life-of-achievement.html

Genetic determination of all giftedness:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/genetic-determination-of-all-giftedness.html

Can Britain survive trash culture?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/can-britain-survive-trash-culture.html

International Left-handers' Day, August 13:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/international-left-handers-day-august.html

School food and allergy management:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/school-food-and-allergy-management.html

Social skills in toddlers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/social-skills-in-toddlers.html

Left-handedness and divergent thinking:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/left-handedness-and-divergent-thinking.html

Does College make you fat?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/does-college-make-you-fat.html

Children and pet animals:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/children-and-pet-animals.html

The infinity of chemical knowledge:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/infinity-of-chemical-knowledge.html

The mystery of the disappearing lettuce:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/mystery-of-disappearing-lettuce.html

What does early college mean?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-does-early-college-mean.html

Self-perception of toddler:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/self-perception-of-toddler.html

Construction of the Grand Snail Hotel:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/construction-of-grand-snail-hotel.html

The gifted and the standardized classroom:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/gifted-and-standardized-classroom.html
Does Singapore value copyright?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/does-singapore-value-copyright.html

Odex and Pacific Net, Singapore - further comment:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/odex-pacific-net-singapore-quote.html

Hafiz Osman, Syahidah's brother, wins the Winston Oh Art Award:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/hafiz-osman-wins-art-award.html

The closure of the Intelligent Singaporean, blog aggregator:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/intelligent-singaporean-blog-aggregator.html

The true nature of personality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/true-nature-of-personality.html

The quality of memory - incidental knowledge:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/quality-of-memory-incidental-knowledge.html

Time Magazine: Are we failing our geniuses?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/time-magazine-failing-our-geniuses.html

The fall of snail kingdom:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/fall-of-snail-kingdom.html

This is my five hundredth post:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/this-is-my-five-hundredth-post.html

Odex, Pacific net and Gamesmart:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/odex-pacific-net-and-gamesmart.html

Fintan knows his toys:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/fintan-knows-his-toys.html

Tiarnan and the beetle:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/08/tiarnan-and-beetle.html

High five, Tiarnan style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/high-five-tiarnan-style.html

The birth of scepticism:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/birth-of-scepticism.html

IQ and the politics of science:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/iq-and-politics-of-science.html

Changi Airport, Singapore: Hafiz Osman's flight

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/changi-airport-singapore-hafiz-flight.html

Tiarnan shows his athleticism:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/tiarnan-shows-his-athleticism.html

It is never too late to live:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/it-is-never-too-late-to-live.html

When education becomes abusive:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/when-education-becomes-abusive.html

A science prodigy's comedic sense:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/science-prodigys-comedic-sense.html

Child Prodigy Schools: an educational trend.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/child-prodigy-schools-educational-trend.html

The pace of education for the gifted:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/pace-of-education-for-gifted.html

In homeschooling permission limbo:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/in-homeschooling-permission-limbo.html

Tiarnan's emotional response:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/tiarnans-emotional-responses.html

SMRT unfair taxi fare:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/smrt-unfair-taxi-fare.html

Natural hairstyle and individuality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/natural-hairstyle-and-individuality.html
Was William Shakespeare a writer?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/was-william-shakespeare-writer.html

Tiarnan and the public bar:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/tiarnan-and-public-bar.html

The amazing Super Moths of Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/amazing-super-moths-of-singapore.html
Seeking a Chemistry lab in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/seeking-chemistry-lab-in-singapore.html

First anniversary of Prodigy Blog:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/first-anniversary-of-prodigy-blog.html

Childhood imagination and acting on the stage:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/childhood-imagination-and-acting-on.html

O.J. Simpson: fame and invulnerability:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/ojsimpson-fame-and-invulnerability.html

Progress on homeschooling in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/progress-on-homeschooling-singapore.html

The mysterious genius of Athens:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/mysterious-genius-of-athens.html

The study of geography:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/study-of-geography.html

The strange vocabulary of Tiarnan Cawley:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/strange-vocabulary-of-tiarnan-cawley.html

On accepting the testimony of others:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/on-accepting-testimony-of-others.html

Artfriend and customer service in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/artfriend-and-customer-service-in.html

The value of Science in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/value-of-science-in-singapore.html

The No Child Left Behind Act: Is Bush One?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/no-child-left-behind-act-is-bush-one.html

Kenji Nagai APF videojournalist in Burma:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/kenji-nagai-apf-videojournalist-in.html

Listen to the children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/listen-to-children.html

Famous inventors, John Boyd Dunlop:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/09/famous-inventors-john-boyd-dunlop.html

Lost and missing comment posts:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/lost-and-missing-comment-posts.html

The brain of Neanderthal Man:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/brain-of-neanderthal-man.html

Daddy is on a roll:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/daddys-on-roll.html

Akiane Kramarik, a child prodigy artist?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/akiane-kramarik-child-prodigy-artist.html

A child's book shelf:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/childs-book-shelf.html

Irish roots go deep into history:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/irish-roots-go-deep-into-history.html

Computer software and the child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/computer-software-and-child.html

Does anyone think anymore?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/does-anyone-think-anymore.html

The importance of creativity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/importance-of-creativity.html

The best party in the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/best-party-in-world.html

Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize for Literature:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/doris-lessing-nobel-prize-for.html

Hogwarts Castle - J K Rowling sues:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/hogwarts-castle-j-k-rowling-sues.html

Gerhard Ertl, Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry, 2007:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/gerhard-ertl-nobel-prize-for-chemistry.html

The origins of the Irish people:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/origins-of-irish-people.html

Eternal Child Hunger Pangs:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/eternal-child-hunger-pangs.html

Freedom of Speech and the United States:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/freedom-of-speech-and-united-states.html

Little Boy, Big Heart:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/little-boy-big-heart.html

Youth Olympic Games, 2010, IOC:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/youth-olympic-games-2010-ioc.html

Tale of a zebra print:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/tale-of-zebra-print.html

International Olympic Committee blog visit:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/international-olympic-committee-blog.html

Parenting a gifted child, anxious moments:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/parenting-gifted-child-anxious-moments.html

The dangers of mobile phones:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/dangers-of-mobile-phones.html

Recent UFO sighting Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/recent-ufo-sighting-in-singapore.html

Singapore Book of World Records:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/singapore-book-of-world-records.html

Celebrity sighting on a train:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/celebrity-sighting-on-train.html

Chance meeting with a "family friend":

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/chance-meeting-with-family-friend.html

Jealousy at NUS High School:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/jealousy-at-nus-high-school.html

Does anyone read anymore?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/does-anyone-read-anymore.html

Happy Birthday, Syahidah:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/happy-birthday-syahidah.html

The Diamond Hope, VLCC, a Supertanker:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/10/diamond-hope-vlcc-supertanker.html

Happy Halloween, everyone:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/happy-halloween-everyone.html

The best students in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/best-students-in-singapore.html

Lost property in Singapore, Ainan style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/lost-property-in-singapore-ainan-style.html

A successful children's party, the signs:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/successful-childs-party-signs.html

The beginnings of sibling rivalry:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/beginnings-of-sibling-rivalry.html

A global search for a University:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/global-search-for-university.html

Traffic surge from the Netherlands, Austria and Germany:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/traffic-surge-from-netherlands-austria.html

Friendship between species: a love of animals:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/friendship-between-species-love-of.html

The flipside of reservation in the classroom:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/flipside-of-reservation-in-classroom.html

The notationally gifted:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/notationally-gifted.html

Noise pollution and modern life:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/noise-pollution-and-modern-life.html

How to measure the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-measure-world.html

A little shop of horrors:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/little-shop-of-horrors.html

On the life of an expat:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/on-life-of-expat.html

The 2006 Pisa Survey on OECD education:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/2006-pisa-survey-on-oecd-education.html

Does Japan have a future?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/does-japan-have-future.html

Fast food and young children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/fast-food-and-young-children.html

Life purpose for a genius:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/life-purpose-for-genius.html

Chimps' maths skills rival humans':

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2007/12/chimps-maths-skills-rival-humans.html

Heath Ledger, film actor, dead at 28, in NYC, some observations:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/01/heath-ledger-actor-dead-in-nyc.html

Is Singapore an uncaring society?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-singapore-uncaring-society.html

The luck of the half-Irish:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/01/luck-of-half-irish.html

"Child Prodigy Veterinarian", Courtney Oliver, 10:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/02/child-prodigy-veterinarian-courtney.html

Lee Kuan Yew reconsiders population:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/02/lee-kuan-yew-reconsiders-population.html

Chemistry experiments beyond the book:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/02/chemistry-experiments-beyond-book.html

Gong xi fa cai: Happy Chinese New Year!

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/02/gong-xi-fa-cai-happy-chinese-new-year.html

Record Breakers Singapore Edition TV Show:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/02/record-breakers-singapore-tv-show.html

A toddler on working life in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/02/toddler-on-working-life-in-singapore.html

The super puzzle solver of Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/super-puzzle-solver-of-singapore.html

Gary Gygax, inventor of Dungeons and Dragons, dies:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/gary-gygax-dungeons-and-dragons.html
On sensitivity and toughness:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/on-sensitivity-and-toughness.html

August Rush, Child Prodigy Musician:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/august-rush-child-prodigy-musician.html

Long term ambition for children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/long-term-ambition-for-children.html

The generosity of Singaporean education:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/generosity-of-singaporean-education.html

The David Beckham of Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/david-beckham-of-singapore.html

Interdimensional travel for a toddler:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/interdimensional-travel-for-toddler.html
St. Patrick's Day Parade, Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/st-patricks-day-parade-singapore.html

Little Master Mischief:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/little-master-mischief.html

Arthur C. Clarke dies:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/arthur-c-clarke-dies.html

The failure of the Copernican revolution:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/failure-of-copernican-revolution.html

China and Tibet: a conspiracy of silence:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/china-and-tibet-conspiracy-of-silence.html

Double standards in Singaporean education:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/double-standards-in-singaporean.html

How to move an immovable object:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-move-immovable-object.html

Signs of growing poverty in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/signs-of-growing-poverty-in-singapore.html

Rapid drop in iq of Thai children.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/rapid-drop-in-iq-of-thai-children.html

Racism at Nebraska Office of the CIO:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/03/racism-at-nebraska-office-of-cio.html

The Singaporean obsession with A grades:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/singaporean-obsession-with-grades.html
Charlton Heston on genius and himself:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/charlton-heston-on-genius-and-himself.html

On the value of beauty:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-value-of-beauty.html

Do child prodigies get rich?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-child-prodigies-get-rich.html

Where every school is a military school:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/where-every-school-is-military-school.html

The child who wants to grow up:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/child-who-wants-to-grow-up.html

How to get Daddy's attention:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-get-daddys-attention.html

A world without the smell of flowers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/world-without-smell-of-flowers.html

Talent will out:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/talent-will-out.html

The best student in class:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-student-in-class.html

Of curiosity and criminality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/of-curiosity-and-criminality.html

Homeschooling on the rise in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/homeschooling-on-rise-in-singapore.html

California State Public School system in jeopardy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/california-state-public-school-system.html

Homeschooling in Singapore and the USA: a comparison:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/homeschooling-in-singapore-and-usa.html

Signs of a child artist:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/signs-of-child-artist.html

What is said and what is done:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-is-said-and-what-is-done.html

How to live a long time: be a parent:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-live-long-time-be-parent.html

The top 100 living geniuses:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/top-100-living-geniuses.html

Was William James Sidis a child prodigy failure?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/was-sidis-child-prodigy-failure.html

The beauty of the molecular world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/beauty-of-molecular-world.html

Trading on another's success: Mr. Bean:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/04/trading-on-anothers-success-mr-bean.html

The secret happiness of fatherhood:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/secret-happiness-of-fatherhood.html

Albert Hofmann, Chemist, dead at 102:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/albert-hofmann-chemist-dead-at-102.html

The lack of entrepreneurs in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/lack-of-entrepreneurs-in-singapore.html

How to console a little boy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-console-little-boy.html

The passenger should be in control:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/passenger-should-be-in-control.html

Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar: the true danger:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/cyclone-nargis-in-myanmar-true-danger.html

Mas Selamat Kastari in the eyes of a child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/mas-selamat-kastari-in-eyes-of-child.html

Socially aware children: interpersonal intelligence.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/socially-aware-child-interpersonal.html

Taking the credit for the goodwill of the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/taking-credit-for-goodwill-of-world.html

Ainan's Mother's Day Present for Syahidah:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/ainans-mothers-day-present-for-syahidah.html

Straits Times.com videocast on Ainan at Singapore Polytechnic:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/straits-timescom-videocast-on-ainan.html

My children's reaction to Ainan's news:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-childrens-reaction-to-ainans-news.html

The size of a toddler:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/size-of-toddler.html

The Berita Harian, Singapore Polytechnic News:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/berita-harian-singapore-polytechnic.html

I am not a chemist:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-am-not-chemist.html

Chicken Soup for a Singaporean Soul:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicken-soup-for-singaporean-soul.html

Strategic thinking about social situations:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/strategic-thinking-about-social.html

Doris Lessing on Nobel Prize fame:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/doris-lessing-on-nobel-prize-fame.html

Drama at a restaurant:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/drama-at-restaurant.html

Thanks to Google Webmasters Discussion group:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/thanks-to-google-webmasters-discussion.html

A child prodigy's acceptance by others:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/child-prodigys-acceptance-by-others.html

Crime in the UK and in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/crime-in-uk-and-singapore.html

Equanimity in the face of adversity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/equanimity-in-face-of-adversity.html

A young experimenter's decibel test:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/young-experimenters-decibel-test.html

A day in the chemistry lab:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/day-in-chemistry-lab.html

What kind of intelligence do you have?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-kind-of-intelligence-do-you-have.html

Singapore Daily blog aggregator moves:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/singapore-daily-blog-aggregator-moves.html

Girls and boys in academia:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/of-girls-and-boys-in-academia.html

A chance encounter with an old colleague:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/chance-encounter-with-old-colleague.html

Knowledge of national flags:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/knowledge-of-national-flags.html

Jeanne Louise Calment - successful aging:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/jeanne-louise-calment-successful-aging.html

What kind of country is this?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-kind-of-country-is-this.html

Tiarnan's sense of mischief:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/tiarnans-sense-of-mischief.html

Is Japan a culture of misery?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-japan-culture-of-misery.html

Career ambitions of Vietnamese students:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/career-ambitions-of-vietnamese-students.html

No freedom to play:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/no-freedom-to-play.html

The language of a natural diplomat:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/language-of-natural-diplomat.html

Miss Singapore Universe Beauty pageant: an end?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/miss-singapore-universe-beauty-pageant.html

Singapore's stressful education system:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/singapores-stressful-education-system.html

The education of a nation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/education-of-nation.html

Father's Day gift from a son:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/fathers-day-gift-from-son.html

Terminal cognitive decline and death:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/terminal-cognitive-decline-and-death.html

The value of an individual:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/value-of-individual.html

The beauty of a car:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/beauty-of-car.html

Happy 5th birthday Fintan:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/happy-5th-birthday-fintan.html

Plagiarism in the classroom:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/plagiarism-in-classroom.html

Memories of childhood: the parents' view:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/memories-of-childhood-parents-view.html

Two parties for the birthday boy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/two-parties-for-birthday-boy.html

Education should be free:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/06/education-should-be-free.html

Stereotypes: age and liberalism, conservatism:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/stereotypes-age-and-liberalism.html

The Tower of Babel:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/tower-of-babel.html

The decline in general knowledge:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/decline-in-general-knowledge.html

The value of being gifted:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/value-of-being-gifted.html

The amazing disappearing ERP cards:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/amazing-disappearing-erp-cards.html

How big is a toddler?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-big-is-toddler.html

The best colour in the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/best-colour-in-world.html

The shame of a nation:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/shame-of-nation.html

Teaching a hamster to read:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/teaching-hamster-to-read.html

What makes a favourite teacher?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-makes-favourite-teacher.html

The perils of a room-mate:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/perils-of-room-mate.html

Hollywood from a child's perspective:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/hollywood-from-childs-perspective.html

Lee Kuan Yew's view on Singaporean education:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/lee-kuan-yews-view-on-singaporean.html

Where are all the world class writers?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/where-are-all-world-class-writers.html

How to get to the Olympics, Singaporean-style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-get-to-olympics-singapore-style.html

The most important cargo in the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/most-important-cargo-in-world.html

A new meaning of pet food:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-meaning-of-pet-food.html

The dangers of a kiasu mentality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/dangers-of-kiasu-mentality.html

No signs of sibling rivalry here:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-signs-of-sibling-rivalry-here.html

Schools that forget their pupils' needs:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/schools-that-forget-their-pupils-needs.html

Not every change is a success:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/not-every-change-is-success.html

The best student writer I have seen:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/best-student-writer-i-have-seen.html

How not to secure a publisher:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-not-to-secure-publisher.html

Unexpected entrepreneurialism in the young:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/unexpected-entrepreneurialism-in-young.html

The retro kid hippy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/07/retro-kid-hippy.html

The wistfulness of an expat:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/wistfulness-of-expat.html

Philosophy and the art of categorization:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/philosophy-and-art-of-categorization.html

On learning to be grateful:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-learning-to-be-grateful.html

A toddler and a baby:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/toddler-and-baby.html

Singapore Parenting Congress 2008:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/singapore-parenting-congress-2008.html

The true nature of Singapore's bilingualism:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/true-nature-of-singapores-bilingualism.html

The importance of telling the truth:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/importance-of-telling-truth.html

Back to school: Ainan's welcome:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/back-to-school-ainans-welcome.html

Where has fatherhood gone?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-has-fatherhood-gone.html

Genghis Can - copywriting, editing and proofreading agency:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/genghis-can-copywriting-editing-and.html

On silence and self-expression:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-silence-and-self-expression.html

Superhuman Genius Documentary, ITV1 and ITV2:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/superhuman-genius-documentary-itv1-and.html

On maternity and paternity leave:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-maternity-and-paternity-leave.html

Time to investigate the IOC:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/time-to-investigate-ioc.html

How not to investigate a scandal:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-not-to-investigate-scandal.html

Over 100,000 hits since this blog started:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/over-100000-hits-since-this-blog.html

The effect of chocolate on the young:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/effect-of-chocolate-on-young.html

Is Made in China any good?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/is-made-in-china-any-good.html

Wall-e, Hollywood and environmentalism:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/08/wall-e-hollywood-and-environmentalism.html

Fintan resident fashion expert:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/fintan-resident-fashion-expert.html

Bullying in the workplace:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/bullying-in-workplace.html

A child's response to Wall-e:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/childs-response-to-wall-e.html

Free healthcare for all: a basic human right:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/free-healthcare-for-all-basic-human.html

The absurdity of Singaporean taxi drivers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/absurdity-of-singaporean-taxi-drivers.html

Baroness Warnock - unethical ethics expert:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/baroness-warnock-unethical-ethics.html

Laziness in today's students:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/laziness-in-todays-students.html


Formula One Night Race and social status:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/09/formula-one-night-race-and-social.html

Why are politicians so stupid?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-are-politicians-so-stupid.html

The philosopher of the wind:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/philosopher-of-wind.html

An unkept Singaporean promise:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/unkept-singaporean-promise.html

What Heng-Cheong Leong of Myapplemenu doesn't understand:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-heng-cheong-leong-of-myapplemenu.html

The Irish solution to financial meltdown:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/irish-solution-to-financial-meltdown.html

The message and the messenger:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/message-and-messenger.html

The world escapes from economic reality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/world-escapes-from-economic-reality.html

The imagination of a child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/imagination-of-child.html

F1 racing cars from the perspective of a child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/f1-racing-cars-from-perspective-of.html

Prisoners' rights to vote in the United States:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/prisoners-rights-to-vote-in-united.html

On living a life of significance:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/on-living-life-of-significance.html

Space colonization and the survival of Mankind:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/space-colonization-and-survival-of.html

A peculiarly American tragedy:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/peculiarly-american-tragedy.html

Lee Kuan Yew on Assortative mating:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2008/10/lee-kuan-yew-on-assortative-mating.html

Cambridge University: an awkward truth or two:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/dr-robert-lee-kilpatrick-technology.html

The two-legged alarm clock:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/two-legged-alarm-clock.html

The future of the Human race:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/future-of-human-race.html

Old and childless:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/old-and-childless.html

The limits of the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/limits-of-world.html

Listen to the sound of the flames:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/listen-to-sound-of-flames.html

Elizabeth Alexander: Inaugural poet:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/elizabeth-alexander-inaugural-poet.html
"Valentine Cawley": Stoned Tales, Stoned Poems:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/valentine-cawley-stoned-tales-stoned.html

China's confession of guilt:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/chinas-confession-of-guilt.html

Suicides of the rich and famous:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/suicides-of-rich-and-famous.html

The consequences of blogging success:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/01/consequences-of-blogging-success.html

The World's Cleverest Child and Me, Channel 4:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/02/worlds-cleverest-child-and-me-channel-4.html

Of memory power and interest:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/02/of-memory-power-and-interest.html

Lord Valentine the Misplaced:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/02/lord-valentine-misplaced.html

Creative students in the classroom:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/02/creative-students-in-classroom.html

The miraculous power of selective memory;

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/02/miraculous-power-of-selective-memory.html

Singaporean schools are destroying our children:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/02/singaporean-schools-are-destroying-our.html

David Hartanto Widjaja: celebrity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/david-hartanto-widjaja-celebrity.html

Is President Obama an ethical man?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-president-obama-ethical-man.html

The cause of NTU's suicide habit:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/cause-of-ntus-suicide-habit.html

On the verge of a new era:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/on-verge-of-new-era.html

Why can't the PAP find talent?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-cant-pap-find-talent.html

Barack Obama and the video store:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/barack-obama-and-video-store.html

End the practise of bonding:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/end-practise-of-bonding.html

Dr. Allan Ooi Act:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/dr-allan-ooi-act.html

A leader without a sense of morality:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/leader-without-sense-of-morality.html

The mysteries of Singlish:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/mysteries-of-singlish.html

More buses please:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-buses-please.html

The way children understand:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/way-children-understand.html

Madonna's adoption bid:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/madonnas-adoption-bid.html

An unexpected dinosaur:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/unexpected-dinosaur.html

A literary mystery:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/literary-mystery.html

Bullying by teachers in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/bullying-by-teachers-in-singapores.html
The Singapore Kindness Movement:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/singapore-kindness-movement.html

An elephant for breakfast:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/elephant-for-breakfast.html

A mother in the eyes of her child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/mother-in-eyes-of-her-child.html

The Super Secret PAP kindergarten:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/super-secret-pap-kindergarten.html

Academic culture shock:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/academic-culture-shock.html

Phil Spector, Barack Obama supporter and murderer:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/phil-spector-barack-obama-supporter-and.html

The madness of kiasu:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/madness-of-kiasu.html

Portrait of the writer in the eyes of others:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/portrait-of-writer-in-eyes-of-others.html

The Great Singaporean Expat Exodus:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-singaporean-expat-exodus.html

How to save money Chinese style:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-save-money-chinese-style.html

Fintan's knowledge of animals:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/fintans-knowledge-of-animals.html

The end of Great Britain:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/end-of-great-britain.html

An alternative to AWARE's war:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/alternative-to-awares-war.html

On having readers:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-having-readers.html

Tiarnan's way with the cmaera:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/tiarnans-way-with-camera.html

Antiviral stockpiles and value systems:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/04/antiviral-stockpiles-and-value-systems.html

People's magazine 100 Most Beautiful People List:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/people-magazines-100-most-beautiful.html

Swine flu madness:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/swine-flu-madness.html

Wisdom and folly of Great Britain:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/wisdom-and-folly-of-great-britain.html

Career ambition of a young man:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/career-ambition-of-young-man.html

The child who named Pluto:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/child-who-named-pluto.html

Leonardo Da Vinci, the Genius, exhibition at the Science Centre:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/da-vinci-genius-exhibition-science.html

The Lost Room - a lost sci fi tv series:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/lost-room-lost-sci-fi-tv-series.html

Brown Rice Paradise - or is it?

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/brown-rice-paradise-or-is-it.html

Conversations with PRCs:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/conversations-with-prcs.html

The mortality and immortality of authors:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/mortality-and-immortality-of-authors.html

Too many gifted students in the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/too-many-gifted-students-in-world.html

Hygiene and public toilets in Singapore:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/05/hygiene-and-public-toilets-in-singapore.html

Perceptiveness in a young child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/perceptiveness-in-young-child.html

David Carradine, "Kung Fu" actor, dead in Bangkok:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/david-carradine-kung-fu-actor-dead-in.html

On the acceptance of difference:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-acceptance-of-difference.html

David Carradine's posthumous fame:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/david-carradines-posthumous-fame.html

Copyright infringement in Asia:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/copyright-infringement-in-asia.html

The art of learning patience:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/art-of-learning-patience.html


Privileges of the old:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/privileges-of-old.html

Happy Father's Day, 2009:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-fathers-day-2009.html

Fintan turns down Superhero opportunity:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/fintan-turns-down-superhero-opportunity.html

Who owns a blog?:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/06/who-owns-blog.html

A child's curiosity about the world:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/childs-curiosity-about-world.html

IMDb: the Internet Movie database:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/imdb-internet-movie-database.html

Computer programming by a child:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/computer-programming-by-child.html

He is not one of us:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-one-of-us.html

Where is The Knowledge in a "Knowledge economy":

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/where-is-knowledge-in-knowledge-economy.html

Differential support of the gifted:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/differential-support-of-gifted.html

I can't stop loving you:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-cant-stop-loving-you.html

On personal experience and scientific study:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-personal-experience-and-scientific.html

Brotherly love vs. Harry Potter:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/brotherly-love-vs-harry-potter.html

Where news is no news:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/07/where-news-is-no-news.html

The New Paper and the order of events:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-paper-and-order-of-events.html

IMDb and Macaulay Culkin:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/08/imdb-and-macaulay-culkin.html

Mika - the boy who knew too much:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/08/mika-boy-who-knew-too-much.html

Sacha Baron Cohen and the lost accent:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/08/sacha-baron-cohen-and-lost-accent.html

Singapore's richest top 40: a comment:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2009/09/singapores-richest-top-40-comment.html

Fintan invents his very own season's greeting for Xmas:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2011/12/fintans-very-own-seasons-greetings.html

On making a written record of childhood:

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2012/01/on-making-record.html

Genius and obsession. A post on one of the keys to genius.

http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2012/01/genius-and-obsession.html

IMDB is the Internet Movie Database for film and tv professionals. If you would like to look at my IMDb listing for which another fifteen credits are to be uploaded, (which may take several months to be accepted) please go to: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3438598/ As I write, the listing is new and brief - however, by the time you read this it might have a dozen or a score of credits...so please do take a look. My son, Ainan Celeste Cawley, also has an IMDb listing. His is found at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3305973/ My wife, Syahidah Osman Cawley, has a listing as well. Hers is found at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3463926/

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http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/

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