Raising a child prodigy presents unique challenges. Parents must nurture exceptional talent while ensuring a normal childhood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many parents may assume that helping their kids specialize early in life prepares them for successful careers, the latest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alan Edmunds, a psychologist, librettist and the writer of "Perfect World," a musical that tells the story of literary child ...

This week on the program, we've been talking to and about prodigies: children with extraordinary abilities far beyond their age. Yesterday, we talked about how hard it is to find the right balance, ...

Most parents want the best for their kids, especially if they come from a difficult background themselves. But it's all too easy to push kids too hard toward certain goals, particularly ones that have ...

As someone who frequently puts the words music, learning, and psychology together in my professional activities, occasionally I get contacted by people who are interested in better understanding child ...

You may have a leg up on the child prodigies who made you feel inadequate as a school kid. Despite outliers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a new analysis based on 19 studies involving 34,000 high ...

In the world of child prodigies, novelists are the rarest breed. Barbara Newhall Follett, born in Hanover, N.H., in 1914, fit the bill. By the time she was 9 years old she had completed her first ...

Key points Practically speaking, a prodigy is simply a child who can do musical things that peers cannot. Prodigies are produced from a combination of environmental factors and personal ...