Precocious children are nothing new; they’ve been around for as long as there have been embittered adults to be annoyed by them because of their infuriating innocence, and because they haven’t yet ...

DEAR AMY: We recently celebrated Easter with our families. My husband and I have a precocious seven-year-old daughter who we really enjoy. But any holidays or occasions where there are treats or ...

While every generation produces its share of precocious children, no era, before or since, seems to have been so obsessed with them. The recent advent of intelligence testing, which allowed ...

Recently, a friend asked us what we might advise as appropriate reading instruction for her kindergarten daughter, Karina, who was already well able to read. Karina’s teacher had determined that ...

Not getting enough sleep and going to bed late were associated with a higher risk for central precocious puberty, particularly in girls. Girls with this condition often had serious sleep issues 3.5 ...

A new, mystery musical aet in the twenties Perfect World tells the true-life story of Barbara Follett, a precocious child writer who had an extraordinary love of writing. From the age of four, she ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...