A recent Harvard Study showed that all kids are born geniuses--unfortunately by the time they hit the age of 20, 98% of them have lost their genius ability. My goal is to prevent this Genius Dip from affecting our kids.
Welcome to the Project GiftED Community, my name is Melissa Greczy. I’m a single mom with two kids and co-founder of Project Gifted. Our mission is to unleash the natural genius in every child. Please click here to read our story.
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First I must just say how grateful and excited I am to see another parent who has opened there eyes and realised what we are doing to our children. Secondly I would like to commend you in taking the step to actually do something about it, most wouldn't, I haven't.
My story in a weird sort of way is so similar to Melissa's story. I too am a single Mum of two children aged 6 and 3. I too have now been given time which most of us don't have to concentrate on my children and really think about their "education". I too had one of those upbringings that are yet to be desired and when I fell pregnant with my first child my whole world took and total transformation. At the time, a very inconvenient transformation as I too was living a life of bitterness and at total loss who I was, where I was going and even though I cared, never did anything about it. I say to people often, my first born "SAVED MY LIFE" and I truly believe that!
So enough about the woes of past life, I have a burning question that has played my mind for many years and would love your thought on it. Why is it that it seems to take a "interesting" upbringing or alternatively a traumatic even for us adults to open our eyes and "SEE"?
I impose my thoughts and ideas onto my friends around me and I probably the most passionate person I know, and yet I get met with confused and uninterested faces. It is not our "duty" as parents to ensure our children reach the best potential they have to be the geniuses they are and to gather as many experiences they can possible fit into one body life span they can? This is not a sense of guilt I feel but rather a sense of duty, passion and love.
I realise life is so full of noise and distractions that it is easy to get mixed up in the trivial elements of this life we have been given, and I too can be distracted at times, but if I could take all the parents in my arms and give them all a good shake, I would. I could truly go on about this forever, you truly have give me the shake to get up and do, rather than just think!
Again I must commend you in your bravery. I too at the end of this year will be leaving the "stabilities" of "normal" life and taking my kids out of the "system" and travelling the world. I am scared, but so excited to give them opportunities they deserve. Thank you again!
If you really believe that then...
you should rename your project "Project Genius"
because Gifted is a whole 'nother dimension.
Hello!
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a group[12] professers at harvard
circa 1900? were using a 200 yr old
book by kurt witte on raising genius's
i only know of 2 norbert wiener
and james sidis.
have been unable to find any
mention witte on the internet
i read about witte in a book
on raising genius's, which i
can't relocate