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BRITAIN’S smartest toddler taught HIMSELF to read at the age of two and has an IQ of 139.
Teddy Hobbs, now aged four, became the country’s youngest Mensa member as a toddler with abilities like being able to count to 100 in six other languages.
Teddy Hobbs with his MENSA certificate[/caption]
The toddler taught himself to read aged two years old[/caption]
The exclusive organisation for the intellectual ‘elite’ welcomed the youngster when he was just three years and nine months old.
Mensa is an international group for high-IQ individuals founded in 1947 that only accepts members who are above the 98th percentile of IQs worldwide.
He scored 139 out of 160 on the Stanford Binet test and shocking his parents, who had no idea quite how smart he was.
The child genius was born through IVF to proud parents Beth and Will Hobbs, from Portishead, Somerset, who only got their son assessed ahead of him starting school.
Beth, 31, said: “We did an IQ test, where we basically told him he was going to sit and do some puzzles with a lady for an hour, and he thought it was the most wonderful thing.
“After he completed it we were told he was eligible by Mensa’s child advisor, so we thought he may as well join.
“We were a bit like ‘pardon?’. We knew he could do things his peers couldn’t, but I don’t think we realised quite how good he was.”
Teddy is now capable of even reading Harry Potter books, when his parents allow him.
He even likes to relax – with a word search.
Beth says that Teddy’s genius comes as a blessing and a curse though, with him showing little interest in some of the more ‘normal’ things a young boy may enjoy like games and TV.
She said: “It comes with it’s challenges, my friends can say ‘oh should we have some c-a-k-e’ and their kids will not know what they’re saying, but Teddy will immediately spell it out and want some.
“You can’t get anything past him, he listens to everything. He will remember conversations you had with him at Christmas last year.
“His idea of fun is that he likes to sit down and recite his times tables, and he even got so excited over fractions one time that he gave himself a nosebleed.
“That seems to be his quirk, and we’ll roll with it, but we’re trying very much to not make a thing of it.”
The pair say that they are trying to keep him “humble” given his genius to prevent him from developing any kind of “superiority complex”.
However, for now he is apparently unaware of his abilities compared to other children his age.
Beth added: “We’re slowly getting to the point in nursery now where they’re starting to do a more formal curriculum.
“His friends can sort of read a couple of letters of the alphabet – meanwhile he can read Harry Potter.
“Obviously we don’t let him read Harry Potter – we pick more emotionally appropriate books, but he’s essentially at the stage where he can read anything we put in front of him.”
Beth says Teddy’s level of interest in conversation likely exceeds what her friends are talking about with their four year olds.
She said: “His social and development skills really are us are the main priority; we spent a lot of time trying to have these children – so they need to be good citizens.
“He has some ideas that he wants to be a doctor one day because him and his friend likes to play doctors at nursery, but if you ask him what he wants to be he will just say he wants to focus on being a Teddy.”
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I thought my little girl had the flu when she came down with a cough… the truth was every parent’s worst nightmare
A MUM thought her little girl had the flu when she came down with a cough.
Mum Kirsten noticed four-year-old Kyra had begun to show cold symptoms just days after Christmas.
Kyra, four, was rushed to hospital after developing back and leg pain with a fever[/caption]
Her parents were shocked to hear their daughter’s diagnosis[/caption]
But when Kyra woke up complaining of a sore back and temperature, Kirsten knew something was seriously wrong.
The four-year-old was rushed to the hospital where it was discovered her oxygen saturation levels were extremely low.
This prompted doctors to test for leukaemia, a type of cancer that infects white blood cells.
Pregnant mum Kirsten told Manchester Evening News: “We just wanted them to do whatever they could.
“They had been taking blood samples and doing lots of tests to find out what the infection was and what was wrong with her.
“We couldn’t believe it. There was just no way.”
Kirsten explained they celebrated a normal Christmas, believing Kyra’s symptoms to be that of the common flu going around at the time.
A few days into the New Year, the tot developed a temperature and started to say her legs and back hurt.
The four-year-old had also completely lost her appetite.
After several tests it was confirmed Kyra did have leukaemia, leaving her parents shocked and heartbroken.
“We couldn’t ever have predicted this – it took us by surprise, especially because of how she had been a couple of days earlier, laughing and smiling. It’s broken us,” her mum added.
“We kept asking the doctors if there was anything we could’ve picked up on.
“They told us she could’ve had it for up to two weeks.
“If she hadn’t have gotten ill, we may not have known and it may have been too late. It is so much to take in.
“She doesn’t know what’s going on. She is really confused and just wants to go home, it’s breaking our hearts.
“When the doctors come in with masks she thinks they’re going to hurt her.”
Fortunately, the leukaemia cells are not present in Kyra’s spinal fluid and her cancer will be curable.
The brave little one has been in hospital for a week and will stay there for just over a month to undergo chemotherapy.
Treatment can last for up to three years but Kyra’s prognosis is looking positive.
Kyra’s aunty Stephanie has launched a GoFundMe page to help raise funds for the family.
Signs and Symptoms of Childhood Leukemia
According to cancer.org many symptoms of childhood leukemia can have other causes as well, but it is advised to always go to a doctor to be safe.
- Feeling tired, weak, cold, dizzy or lightheaded.
- Shortness of breath
- Paler skin
- Infections with accompanying fevers that don’t seem to go away
- Easy bruising and bleeding
- Frequent or severe nosebleeds
- Bleeding gums
- Bone or joint pain
- Swelling of the belly
- Loss of appetite and eight loss
- Swollen lymph nodes
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Doctors were concerned about the tot and took her blood oxygen levels[/caption]