superkid
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[edit]superkid (plural superkids)
- (colloquial) A child of remarkable talents or abilities.
- 1974, Ebony, volume 29, number 10, page 96:
- WHEN Kali Grosvenor was nine years old, back in 1970, she achieved a level of celebrity as a superkid. Her first book, Poems by Kali, had been published by a major firm (Doubleday) and was selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a week […]
- 2004, Laura E. Berk, Awakening Children's Minds:
- Elkind appealed to parents prone to live for and through their child's accomplishments to give up their vain desire for a superkid, refrain from exaggerating the child's competence, and stop rushing and pushing the child into adulthood.