Child Prodigy

Meet Anthony Popa Urria: Two years and nine months old with an IQ of 154

"By 10 months, he was sounding out the alphabet phonetically.

At first, mother Laura said she was skeptical. She wondered if her son was simply memorizing the letters without comprehending them.

But then, one day, she saw him manipulating wooden blocks with painted letters, turning a ‘W’ upside down to resemble an M, or inverting the number 7 to look like an L"

Good luck to you, little fellow. Exceptionally bright children often have a hard time of it in school. Hope there's a program for gifted kids where you go to school.

Mind you, in Calgary, that shouldn't be a problem.

Which reminds me. Hem. Hem. My son was exceptional, too. He learned the alphabet while we were on a holiday in Cuba and was carving the letters in the sand on the beach. One evening he noticed a flame in a lantern shaped like a W and pointed to it and said: "Hot blubbleyou." Everyone within earshot, including Mom and Dad, thought that was so cute. He was not quite two years old then - about 20 months.