Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Baby geniuses

Aspirekids has come up with the novel idea of training babies to be geniuses. It seems that they impart wisdom to newborns who are yet to crawl by means of showing flash cards to the babies, so that they can recognise patterns, flags etc. I saw this demonstrated on TV recently,where a new mother showed two cards (7 and 8 dots respectively) and asked her 6 month old baby, "chuchukutty, Sollu edhu 7?". Chuchukutty promptly kicked the 7 card with its tiny foot,and the mom was ecstatic.It seems that this kid would be able to complete Harry Potter in one day by the time it is 6 years old.I am sorry, but I think this is bordering on child abuse.Maybe they will get the kids married by 8 and retire by 10?
Reminds me of the nursery rhyme 'Solomon Grundy'.