The observance is pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 199 signed on October 19, 1999, which aims to build public awareness on the education of the gifted and talented in the country and to provide them opportunities, encouragement, greater attention, and assistance to maximize their full potentials.

With the theme “Gifts and Talents:

The Means for Productive Life,” the celebration is geared to strengthening academic excellence, leadership, value formation, and love of country among the gifted and talented.

The Department of Education which leads the five-day celebration has prepared activities which can be integrated in school activities. Among them are visual and performing arts competitions, arts and crafts exhibits, leadership training, academic competitions, educational field trips, fun games and sports activities, symposiums on parenting the gifted and talented on meeting their needs, and lectures on the theme of the celebration.

Filipino talents are known all over the world. Let us support the programs in developing potentials of children who are gifted and talented.

They will be future excellent leaders of our country. www.mb.com.ph

She is barely out of diapers, but the world already knows 2-year-old Karina Oakley is a genius. Her mother, Charlotte Fraser, revealed to the British media Tuesday that a London-based intelligence researcher estimated her young daughter’s IQ around 160.

Share Inside an innovative class for some of the world’s most brilliant kids. This March, America learned it had its own genius child. Six-year-old Pranav Veera of Ohio made the media rounds after he scored 176 on an IQ test.

Although millions of us celebrate these children’s brilliance on TV shows that air past their bedtime, childhood development experts debate whether Pranav and Karina should ever have been told.

“We don’t usually tell children what their IQ scores are,” said Sylvia Rimm, a child psychologist and author of “Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades, and What You Can Do About It.” By LAUREN COX ABC News Medical Unit

ll. But, what if your child hates homework and it is a struggle to get them to do it every day? Well, I can help. In this article, I will teach you how to make homework more appealing for your child.

>>1. Help them get into work mode.

When children hear the word homework, they automatically remember something that is not fun. In addition, they’re often exhausted after school. Therefore it important that we give them ample time to unwind before we insist that they complete their academic work. We can do this by administering a health snack and giving them a bit of personal time immediately after school.

>>2. Change their vision about homework.

Many kids don’t like homework therefore we must turn their vision around. We must teach them that homework can be a lot of fun. Instead of thinking of it as work to do at home, we can encourage them to see it as a time to further educate our brains in a fun and enriching manner. This simply paradigm shift will get results, trust me.

>>3. Make an enrichment plan with your kids.

Get your children involved and excited about their homework. This can be done by getting them involved in a homework plan that gets them excited. To create this plan, brainstorm with your kids. Ask them questions like, “Why do we need to have enrichment time? How much time should you spend every day on enrichment time? Where will you set up enrichment time? What can we both do to make enrichment time more fun and enrichment? Both of you should take time to really think about the plan and how to make it worth for the both of you.

>>4. Be versatile.

Just remember that children are not soldiers. They’ve been in school all day and they need a breaks as well as a snack before they get started with homework. So, give them a bit of down town before you create the enrichment at home program. Not only will this make them more excited about the plan but it will excite them as well. Understand that nothing is set in stone. So, make changes to the schedule when necessary. After all, you want to keep your kids happy and excited about completing their work. Right?

>>5. In conclusion, .. if you and your children work together to develop a realistic home enrichment program, they will be more excited about getting their work done and will feel a sense of immense pride and accomplishment as a result of their involvement with the plan. Good luck parent

So you are pretty smart and you are asking yourself if you are a genius? Well, you could very well be actually. About one in 10,000 people are considered at Genius Level and it depends on what you do with that genius that often determines if anyone will notice or not. Perhaps you have noticed as you are the best judge of you right?

Should you dwell too long on this question of yours, attempting to determine if you are or you are not a Genius? Well, here is a thought – You must forget about it. Genius is a label, it is like a plaque or certificate, it is given out by humans to other humans to prove that they are brilliant for knowing other brilliant folks. Forget labels, you need to get beyond that.

Still I can you now asking yourself in your mind; Am I a Genius? Perhaps you are skeptical? Maybe you think that you are a genius, but you just are not sure? Looking for a second opinion are you? Okay ask your mirror, you know what is inside and mostly likely it is not Intel in there. If you ask someone else if you are a genius then they are likely to say something like this:

“Based on our dialogues I do not have enough information to answer this question. Currently I do not have enough information to reach a conclusion based on my definition.”

And therein lies the real problem and that is that even the experts cannot agree on what a genius is or isn’t, everyone still arguing over definitions. So if you want to be a genius then start acting like one and be honest with yourself. The current definition I use is someone would have had to alter or change a domain of science, industry or way of doing things in society. So, are you there yet? What are you waiting for?

WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR CHILD TO BE BRILLIANT, GIFTED, A GENIUS?

When my daughter was born, I have had no idea how to take care of her. I didn’t even know how to change a diaper, or how to hold a baby.

But I knew that I want to give her the best chances for a good, successful, fulfilling life a child has ever had.

When my son was born, I already had some experience, but – again – I have decided to give him the best opportunities I could.

I have started my own research. I have read every book on the market, I have tried my own methods, I have talked with parents of gifted children, I have watched what parents of the most brilliant children are doing with their kids. I have tried every technique I have heard about on my own children.

I went from an inexperienced, new mother, to a mother of 2 highly gifted children, and later became the principal of the “School for Gifted Education”.