3 Year Old Genius!

[Red Kittie Kat]

Three Year Old Genius (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrdRrAjpcDM)

This is amazing! :eek:

[Broacher]

Hmm... I dunno. Did you notice he didn't even mention the word contract?

[jimking]

Hmm... I dunno. Did you notice he didn't even mention the word contract?
Not even a peep about child labor laws.:p

[TheBluePanda]

Hmm.. I'm skeptical.. I woulda rather seen a fast-forwarded still shot of him doing it.

[TheBluePanda]

Wee, 2000 posts! ^o^

[jimking]

Do ya get a taco for that?

[Broacher]

It's a decoder ring. I think. Here, you can have mine.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I believe you get a taco for 2000 :D

.... some are saying it's fake ... but either way it's an entertaining 2 minutes :D

[frankster]

My oldest is nearly two and a half and has really got into watercolours. She's prolific to say the least, but her style is more Pollock. My nearly one year old will scribble a bit, but usually thinks the crayons look like a tasty snack. I'm not convinced this video is for real, but it was fun to watch. I think painting with my kids is the second most fun thing to do with them at the moment. Going down the beach and collecting stuff in a bucket is at the top of our list.

[Ned]

Nope, you don't get a taco 'til 2500, sad to say...

Which reminds me... I don't think I got my 2,500 post taco? Hmph!

[Broacher]

Sorry. I took the last one. I'll buy some on my way home.

Blue, your fortune cookie for today:

"You will be offered a temptation to join a secret society. Resist temptation and hold out for the whole bag of tacos."

And be prepared to spit in your hand and rub it on your screen.

[Red Kittie Kat]

I still don't know the taco levels lmao :D

[Red Kittie Kat]

And be prepared to spit in your hand and rub it on your screen.

note to self:

never touch Broacher's screen :D

[Exodus]

I thought you got one @ 2k.... Either way, congrats TBP! :)

Not real sure about the vid either... It that was for real... That's great! I would like to see how he progresses and how well he could transform his own ideas into paint and other mediums. Sorry, but just copying the look of another creation is not much of a talent. For a three year old, yes but it would not be enough later on.

[Broacher]

Now, a three-year old completing a tax return. That would be a definite mini-mensa.

[frankster]

Now, a three-year old completing a tax return. That would be a definite mini-mensa.

Our youngest "helped" with "completing" this year's tax return. She snatched and chewed up some of the pages. Does that count?

edit: she ripped the display off the accountant's nice big chunky calculator too. The accountant loves us! :rolleyes:

Her latest work of art is entitled "This is not a bottle". My oldest is currently working on a series of paintings on the complex emotions involved in immunization.

[Red Kittie Kat]

lmao Frank :D

[frankster]

In our defense, we aren't those awful parents that give thier kids other people's things to play with/destroy. The accountant offered the calculator to her saying "oooh look, do you like the cool buttons?"

[DesignStudio]

just my two cents:

that video is totally a hoax. if you check out the hands in the closeups of the painting they're not a 3 year old's hands, they're larger relative to the painting then when the zoom out and show the kid holding it- they're just some adult's chubby hands i think. that's probably why it's in fast forward.

i've known kids with genius iq's who were also amazing artists as a child, this is developmentally beyond what a 3 year old's brain will do, in terms of hand eye coordination which continues to develop for several more years, and conceptually as well.

my mom in college did her senior dissertation for a sociology major on the development of children's brains- as studied through the art that they produce. i read it a few years back, actually some really interesting research about how the art kids produce develops in stages and how it relates to brain development.

still a pretty entertaining video, and pretty well shot and edited if nothing else. sorry to burst anyone's bubble, though seemed like most everyone already came to the same conclusion.

[Juggnoxalo]

That was simply amazing, and I actually believe he did the whole painting himself.

Good find Kitty.