Child Genius

[bednobs]

i know i posted about this last year, but what a peculiar program. I am cringing for those poor kids, but strangely compelled to keep watching!

[Ratty2E]

I saw it for the first time last night and like you got drawn in. What horrible pushy parents, just let them be kids and have some fun.

[bednobs]

the one last week, there were two brothers and one burst into tears when he went out and said "i feel so guilty, it all my fault" then the other said as an aside "no it's not, it's mummy's fault for entering us"

[Peter Pedant]

I saw it for a bit and got repelled

one of my colleagues' collateral relatives is in it and quite wisely he has not partaken himself

[hc4361]

I couldn't take the pressure of Family Fortunes or any banal tv game, never mind an intelligent quiz show. How these children are expected to cope not only with the show but with the reactions of schoolmates and everything else I really don't know.
In my view it's wrong.

[Peter Pedant]

Last year I felt for the poor kid who had been picked / passed

and then they said oops sorry .... you havent been ...

[tamborine]

Thomas won. A true genius from a comprehensive & Sasha runner up from grammar school.