Child Genius is a landmark returning series that will document the lives of ten of the UK's most gifted children as they grow up.

At three-years-old, Mikhail is the youngest ever member of Mensa. He can multiply five figure numbers before most kids can count to 10. Ten-year old Aimee is the youngest person ever to be admitted to the Royal College of Music. Michael was reading Shakespeare and learning Mandarin when he was five – he's now one of Britain's youngest published authors.

These are not average, everyday children. Their lives are a constant round of competitions and contests with all the heartache that can bring. But what makes such an exceptional child? Are they born this way or can they really be made? And what of the parents? Will having there children labelled as 'gifted' be a dream or a living nightmare as they struggle to handle the repercussions of their prodigy's superpowers.

Beginning with this 90-minute curtain raiser and first returning in a year's time, Child Genius will follow the ten children as they develop over the coming years. Each will follow a very different path and there will be no predicting the outcomes as they come to terms with their gift and figure out their place in the world.

If you think your child might be gifted there's information about how children are assessed as gifted and how parents can help.

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