BBC – Staff Writer
“When Natalie and Ben’s daughter Ophelia joined the high-IQ society Mensa at only three years old, they knew they would be accused of being pushy parents. But what is it like to have a naturally-gifted child? “Really it was from about eight months old [that we realised how bright she could be],” Natalie Morgan tells the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme. Her daughter Ophelia had said her first word, ‘hiya’, a few months younger than the norm. “It really went from there. She started saying her colours, letters, numbers quite early on compared to most children.” By the age of two, Ophelia, the couple’s first child, was able to remember and recite the alphabet. They knew she was above average having read up online, but it was not until she started at play school that they realised how more advanced she was than her peers.” (more)