Teddy Hobbs, a 4-year-old boy, recently became the youngest member of Mensa in the UK, an international society for individuals with high IQ. The boy is truly spectacular, having taught himself to read while he was even younger, and he can now count to 100 in seven different languages.
According to a report by the BBC, the boy's mother, Beth Hobbs, from Portishead, North Somerset, said he learned to read when he was only 26 months old, while watching children's cartoons on television and copying the sounds of the letters he via.
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“He started tracing the letters, so when we returned him to day care after lockdown from COVID, we told them we thought he had learned to read on his own,” said the mother. “We got a call back from the nursery, who had sent a preschool teacher to check it out, who said, 'yes, he can read!'
The mother even said that the prodigy was playing with the tablet one day and made some strange sounds, but she couldn't recognize what was being said. When she asked the little genius, he said he was counting in Mandarin.
Today, the boy can count to 100 in six languages, in addition to his native language, English. These languages include German, French, Welsh, Mandarin and Spanish.
Teddy, who was conceived through fertilization in vitro, is the first child for the woman and her 41-year-old husband, Will, so they would like to assess the boy's knowledge before classes start.
So the couple turned to Mensa, which is the oldest and largest community for high-IQ prodigies, like their eldest son. To be part of this select group of people, it is necessary to get at least 98% of the questions in a special test right.
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