i think my son's special, he's halfway through metroid prime

[dullard]

Congrats on the talented kid. That is of course, unless you are one of those people who had a child born on Feb 29th and who is actually 4 times older than they claim to be.

 

[Aharami]

envourage him to do more than playing video games. as one suggested, piano is nice.

 

[Lazy8s]

Originally posted by: Turfzilla

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
TEACH HIM PIANO!!!

Agreed, I started playing music at a very early age. Music can further expand someone's mind. Like Wah said, studies show it to be true!

I hate to bust the music bubble my g/f being a music major and all, but uh.....knowing music only makes you smarter at music. My g/f is a music ed. major and she used to preach about the value of music making you smarter so when it was time to do her huge arse research paper she did it on music's effects on intelligence and she was pretty peeved when she found out it didn't help anything.

That being said teach him music because it's beautiful and nothing speaks to the soul like music.

"If music be the food of love play on."
-Shakespeare

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Wahsapa
TEACH HIM PIANO!!!

seriously, you need to start your kid on a musical instrument, the sooner the better(it will blow his mind). also start on spanish or french or somethin close to english as soon as you can(as soon as he has a firmer grasp on english). him knowing how to type to his mom at 3 is amazing.

but ya seriously, make sure he gets into music, if he can already understand language this well, especially this early in life, he should do good in the music world. and studieds have found that people who know more then one language are in general faster thinkers at everything. and i would really start him on piano and not another instrument because you get the widest range of keys in front him with a more direct approach then other musical instruments(not to mention how many girls hes gonna impress later if he gets good)

I'm with this guy!
Piano and languages!!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
Whatever you do, teach him that LOL and ROFL and other acros are not acceptable forms of online expression.

No, I think they are the ONLY acceptable forms of online expression...well, maybe WTF should be included in there as well.

OMGWTFBBQIMANIDIOT!1011011!! is definitely not acceptable though!!!

 

[z0mb13]

give him a golf club!!

next tiger woods in the making??

 

[djplayx714]

i think my son is definately ATOT material jus look at this pic

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he insists on dressing up like mario everyday and gets major pissed when i make him wear anything else. his teachers at the daycare are starting to worry that i dont have any other clothes for him but realize the real reason when they themselves try to change his clothes. at least i make him change his underwear.

he's pretty social with the other kids but he already has the "smarter and better than you" attitude with my cousins. my cousin william weighs 20 lbs more than him but still gets taken down by my son. i have a quickcam vid too but im afraid to host it :Q

 

[yukichigai]

If you kid can beat Metroid Prime -- which first means he has to understand that he has to go back and find a bunch of missile tanks he probably missed -- then your son is a freakin' genius. Definitely get him into some form of music. Or coding. Yeah, teach him C++, Perl, Java....

 

[andylawcc]

make him play UT2k hardcore mode!!!


jokes aside, I sincerely suggest that you should push him more later on in life, if you don't challange him enough, he will feel bored in school and actually do poorly in class.



[after looking at the Mario pic]
if by 16 he still didn't have a g/f, pls beat him senseless, or just take away his PS4.
cute pics though, really.

 

[skace]

Give him a soccer ball

 

He will be incredibly anti-social once he figures out hes so smart.

 

[slycat]

screw piano, coding..etc. Get him to try all kinds of sports..like golf etc.
he might be the asian tiger woods...then he's all set for life and u can retire early.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: slycat
screw piano, coding..etc. Get him to try all kinds of sports..like golf etc.
he might be the asian tiger woods...then he's all set for life and u can retire early.

Good at Metroid Prime != good at sports.

If he was able to bench press 100lbs then you'd want him in sports.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Teach him something that will make you alot of money.

 

[Ymmy]

Originally posted by: djplayx714
my son is definately one of the gifted and talented. im just wondering if there are lots of 3 year olds that know how to navigate through winxp, use aim, plays games on his ps2, gc, and gba daily, also read books to his cousins that are 4 and 5 years old respectively. whats a normal 3 yr old supposed to be doing?

both my sisters could do all the above at 3 (including program a VCR to auto record, etc.)

I was reading quite a bit by 3.

 

[remagavon]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
make him play UT2k hardcore mode!!!


jokes aside, I sincerely suggest that you should push him more later on in life, if you don't challange him enough, he will feel bored in school and actually do poorly in class.

That happened to me, I started off in the highest percentile of everything, read fantastically at age 3 etc.. and got bored to hell with school even in 1st grade. I remember finishing classwork in about 5 minutes and then acting up becuase I was so bored. Things picked up for a few years once I the mathematics got challenging but when my parents took me out of AP math then I slumped and I literally can't focus half as well as in the past to grasp very simple material. All I'm better than average at now is writing, and that's totally useless as far as a technology degree is concerned, so I'm pretty well screwed over.

What has been said about the anti-social stuff is also true, I got ridiculed for doing so well and eventually just became molded (mostly) into everyone around me academic-wise, I really wish things were different.