The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy: On helping grow an audience

The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy

This is the true story of scientific child prodigy, and former baby genius, Ainan Celeste Cawley, written by his father. It is the true story, too, of his gifted brothers and of all the Cawley family. I write also of child prodigy and genius in general: what it is, and how it is so often neglected in the modern world. As a society, we so often fail those we should most hope to see succeed: our gifted children and the gifted adults they become. Site Copyright: Valentine Cawley, 2006 +

Sunday, October 15, 2006

On helping grow an audience

First of all, thanks for visiting. Second of all thanks for reading. However, thirdly, I would like to thank you, in advance, for recommending this site to others so that I can grow an audience. This is a new blog - and my first blog. Your help in making it grow would be much appreciated. If you have a site of some kind, why not link to this one? Presumably you have an interest in giftedness if you are on this page: well, others share your interest too...so please mail a link to your friends. Thanks very much.

(For an overview of the site and an introduction to Ainan Celeste Cawley, six, a scientific child prodigy, go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html )

posted by Valentine Cawley @ 8:15 AM

4 Comments:

Anonymous said...: He's very lucky to have you as a parent. It's not so much what you do as that you care. I doubt many people would comment. I read a while back that 1 in 10,000 has a Radically different IQ. Prodigy would be at least in the 100,000 or more. I'm one too but had no congenial early environment, but I caught up all the same, though too late to be much use.; 11:37 PM
Valentine Cawley said...: As long as you yet live, it is not too late to do something with your gifts: just find a project, and begin.

Thanks for your kind thought.

Good luck.; 9:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Your blog has been in existence for over three years now. :-)

I must say I am glad that it exists!

-- Maria --; 10:09 PM
Valentine Cawley said...: Thank you Maria. If you read this, I wonder what, in particular, do you enjoy about my blog?; 10:46 PM

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Name: Valentine Cawley

Location: Singapore

As a child, I had many gifts...perhaps too many - and this leads to the characteristic problem many gifted children face: what to do, when there is so much you COULD do. I resolved the issue by doing each of them serially throughout my life. I had gifts in science, writing, art, music, acting and academia...and so my life has demonstrated each of these, at some time. However, in the modern world, those who specialize, and focus all their efforts on one thing, tend to win through. In the light of this I have written two books, which are being prepared for publication. I was a child in a time when being gifted was not something people spoke about: it was not a widely recognized situation - at least not in my background. Nothing special was done therefore, to help. It is my wish that all in that position, these days, receive the support that is needed, to become the best they can be. I have been an actor, a writer of two books, a government physicist, at age 17, the founding editor of an Arts magazine, at 22, and a performance artist whose work was covered by CNN (interviewer: Richard Blystone) and Reuters. However, my greatest achievement is to have fathered three sons.

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The boy who knew too much: a child prodigy

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