I Want a Prodigy Child
Parents want the very best for their kids, but sometimes this may turn into a tragedy. In the Chicago Tribune, “Pushy Parents Don’t Always Get Fairy-Tale Ending” Dawn Turner Trice tells about the story of an eight-year-old Justin Chapman and his mom Elizabeth who claims that Justin was an Einstein-level genius. Justin’s SAT score was perfect and his IQ level was close to 300. With a mind like this, she couldn’t put it to waste, so she then enrolled him in college when he was only six years old and they traveled the country giving speeches. Justin then developed a hearing disorder and they moved to Colorado to receive better treatment. He began to throw temper tantrums, stopped doing his homework, and said he wanted to kill himself. Last November when the psychiatric ward wanted to prove how smart Justin really was, his mom confessed: she had faked most of Justin’s exam results. Trice’s main argument in the article is how far parents should push their kids to success and when to stop before destruction happens. Most kids who grow up with pushy parents grow up to resent them. They might become distant from them during their teenage years, and the rebellion starts. Justin’s story was very similar, but it happened at an ear
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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