A child prodigy masters an art or science at an early age.
From the Latin prodigium , prodigy is a special or rare thing , a strange event that exceeds the limits of nature or a person who has extraordinary qualities . For example: «The climatic conditions of this place are a prodigy that we have to take advantage of» , «A child prodigy of only ten years old has been accepted into university for his high IQ» , «This boy is a prodigy: he is already four titles and has not yet turned twenty years old .
The consideration of the prodigious depends on the culture and subjectivity of each person. What may be wonderful (out of the ordinary) for one subject may be habitual or frequent for another. For a man from an Aboriginal tribe who has spent his entire life in the middle of the jungle, seeing a plane fly is a miracle, while the same is common for someone who lives in a big city.
Throughout history, many natural phenomena were considered prodigies and magical explanations were sought. Earthquakes , eclipses , sightings of meteorites and lightning are some of them, which later stopped being taken as prodigies since human beings were able to understand them through science and reason.
prodigy child
A child prodigy is known as someone who masters some art or science at an early age. The ability of these children can be compared to that of adults, the extraordinary thing being the young age of the prodigy.
Music, chess and mathematics are some of the disciplines where cases of child prodigies tend to transcend. Many times, these exceptional individuals maintain their unusual status in adulthood and become true geniuses who remain in history , such as Jorge Luis Borges (who wrote his first story at the age of seven) and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (able to read and compose music, play the violin and harpsichord at the age of six).
Child prodigies need support to exploit their potential.
Harness the potential
Although the term prodigy itself indicates that these characteristics are not common in a child, there are many people with extraordinary abilities who become known. The first reason may be the relationship they have with their elders, with those who are in charge of their upbringing; Parents who spend little time with their children often ignore a large part of their concerns and virtues, and in these cases the possibilities for development are lower.
In addition to the lack of contact with their parents or guardians, a precarious economic situation and the absence of resources and intellectual stimulation can be another reason why a potential child prodigy ends up wasting their gifts. If a Mozart is born into an environment of poverty and without access to musical instruments or education to show him the world outside the boundaries of his life, he will likely never discover who he could have been if he had been given the right tools .
Attention to wonders
However, some studies show that these individuals have a much more restless attitude than their environment, that they live in a more intense and perceptive way than their parents and siblings, which can be understood as a sign that something is not right, as if A part of them would like to express that something is missing in their lives to achieve fulfillment.
This can represent salvation for those children who receive the necessary attention, who come across a person capable of helping them, providing them with the resources to develop their skills. But the most normal thing is that frustrated virtuosity turns into resentment and this is channeled in the form of constant rebellion, at first sight unjustified . In other words, many potential child prodigies become delinquents or troublemakers because they were not born into the right family.