After researching several life stories of Geniuses, one of the first key momentums
of bringing of genius is how you can make a topic exciting to your child.
My next story will highlight some great examples how Richard Feynman became a Genius.
His father worked every week far away and was not at home during weeks. However
at weekends when he came home, he took Richard to the woods and told about interesting things
that are going on there. All the other mothers were a little bit jealous and knew of course that
that was wonderful and the other father
should take their sons for walks but
they didn't get anywhere at first. I must
admit I also can understand the
other fathers. When you work hard the whole week to make a good living for your family
didn't have a chance to relax but you
have to be on top also on weekends.
At the end all the mothers wanted Richard's father to take all the kids
in the woods but he didn't want to,
because he had a special relationship to
his son. And do you know what happened
when all the warrior mothers lost also the
second battle? It ended up that the other fathers took their children on walks on the next weekend.
And the next week, when the fathers were back to work, the kids were playing
and one kid said to Richard
See that bird?What kind of bird is that? And Richard had no idea. He said it is a Brown-headed thrush.
Your father doesn't tell you anything.
But as Richard remembers it was
the opposite. His father not only taught
him the name of the bird in different
languages but encouraged him to look at
the bird and what it is doing. If you
only know the name of bird for example
you will absolutely know nothing about
the bird itself so his father
convinced him to notice things. And later
on one day, when he was playing with an
express vagon and he had a ball and it.
He pulled the vagon and noticed something about the way the ball moved.
He urgently went to his father and said that he noticed something interesting
and tries to understand why this happens. Now his father had a chance to speak about the
general principle of moving objects the tendency called inertia and explained it for Richard
as deeply as it is possible for
small boy
ok think about it for a moment and
picture yourself in this story
who are you similar to? If in this story you didn't get the role of Richard's father what
can you change to make it happen? What is a topic that you could tell about?
Dinosaurs? Flowers? Airplanes? Old stories from the history? What if you are the
mother of the other boys in this story? What could you show to your child and
explain it so simple that your child can
understand it! Please go now to download
sections and you will find a PDF
document which will help you to think
about this challenge. So now I would like
to encourage you to have a conversation
with your wlife for or husband beside a glass of wine or wherever you have a chance to
have a calm conversation and discuss
this topic with each other to be on the
same side.
