By Sheila Mckenzie-
A 9 year old Malayali girl from the Uk has become the youngest person to recite the capitals of 195 countries in the world. Anne Winston, the elder daughter of Winston Jacob and Jincy Winston of Muvattupuzha who are settled in Cardiff recited the capital cities of 195 countries in just 7 minutes,.
The World Guinness Book of Records UK is said to have reached out to Anne to award her a retrospective award in this category.
Anne, a year 3 student at Pontprennau Primary School in Cardiff, reportedly achieved her amazing world record during a live-streamed event, organized by OMG Book of World Records on Sunday, in the presence of her friends and family, who tuned in from different parts of the world.
Representatives from OMG Book of Records were reportedly present at the online event, and awarded her the record, and are soon to send her certificate to her via mail soon. Her feat adds to that of a number of other child geniuses in the world.
The story, brought to this publication by journalists from the Times Of India, needs to be witnessed to be fully believed, and The Eye of Media.Com awaits visual evidence of this achievement.
Indian parents are known for stimulating their children’s minds from an early age with similar exercises to prepare them from their often demanding secondary school education. Exercises like this have taken place in many generations among Indian natives. Some American school children have to learn the 50 states and capital of America as part of their Geography education, but this does not compare with the many more states and capitals of the world many Indian parents try to make their children learn.
Winston said that her daughter’s journey started exercising her mind at the age of three. According to her dad, he regularly told her about countries in the world during her daily journey to nursery. This sparked her interest to learn more about their capitals and subsequently their currencies.
“What makes this achievement spectacular is her entire knowledge was self-taught over a period of 4 years. From a very young age we noticed Anne had a talent for retaining information and all we did was encourage her. We never thought of achieving any record but we are happy that she secured it,” he said.
Anne claims to have spent around 20 minutes every week learning a few capitals and currencies, and practised narrating it each day. “I dedicate this achievement to my grandfather who passed away recently. I hope my attempt inspires many other children across the world,” she said.
Her story confirms the benefit of inspiring children from a very young age to train and exercise their minds by learning information. Children are known to inherit different gifts from their genes, not only directly from their parents, but sometimes from their grandparents or higher up the generational chain. Some are more gifted than others, but some much depends on how much individual gifts are nurtured.
Natural gifts possessed by children can lie dormant in the absence of regular exercise, but parents who exercise their children’s minds from an early age are themselves
displaying a gift of effective nurturing of their child’s mental faculties.
Research shows that parents who motivate their children from an early age to learn information experience faster development of their children in primary and secondary school than those who leave their children to their own devices.
In the case of Anne, she was self motivated, but her self motivation was supported and encouraged by her parents, researcher and former teacher Joshua Hopwood, told The Eye Of Media.Com
”Some children inherit special talents from their parents or further up their genetic lineage, but such talents are usually present when their parents themselves were nurtured at a young age and motivated to develop themselves. mentally.
‘Many children come from family backgrounds with a culture of hard work from a young age, so you will find many adults who have worked extremely hard and have been supported by their parents, produce children who can be really talented. You will find many parents even in the Uk who at a young age learnt a number of vocabulary words every day or every week, or capital cities of the world.
Educated parents who have read broadly over the course of their lives have a higher chance of producing very talented children, though some children can pick up observable traits from their distant ancestors. But we also know that practise makes perfect, and it always helps for parents to exercise their children’s minds regularly from an early age. Even if it means conditioning their gadgets on this exercise or offering them other rewards.
Children’s brains are like a sponge and they can absorb quite a lot what motivated to do so”.
Last year, three year old Arjun Sankadal, broke the Guinness books of record after she recited the capital cities of 195 countries in 24 minutes. She lost her top place in the book of world records by 17 minutes, after 9 year old Anne came along.
Her father Dr Basavaraj encouraged his daughter ,Arjun to learn the names of 100 countries and their capital cities. “I recorded it on my phone and sent it to the India Book of Records. The office rejected the record saying that he should be able to identify and recite the names of more than 100 countries. So, we sat with him again. While there was no pressure on him, he learnt it all in a short time. Now, he can recite the names of 195 countries and their capital cities,” says this native of Hiriyur in Chitradurga district.
The feat of these children shows just how much people can achieve when they devote their mental resources to their personal development. Gifted children Gifted individuals tend to be emotionally sensitive and empathic.
Gifted often feel they are held to higher standards than their peers, they can find it difficult to accept criticism (anything short of perfection is felt as failure). Their over-excitability can make them stand out from peers (and not in a good way), leading them to feel isolated and misunderstood as children and as adults.
Gifted children have great future potential, but researchers say they can also find it difficult to accept criticism because of arrogance and the fact they are often held to a higher standards than their peers.
Learning states and capitals of the world is not the only way some parents stimulate their children’s minds early. Many parents in India and America put their children through the grills in developing their vocabulary by learning many words daily or weekly, a practise also present among conscious privately educated parents in the Uk ,who put their children in private schools, and well informed and ambitious parents whose children attend very good state schools, where such practices are encouraged by the authorities of the school.
Indian, Chinese, and African parents are considered to be the hardest pushers of their children when it comes to early mental and academic development.
The story of 9 year old Anne Winston, will surely push more parents, especially in India, to ush their kids to achieve more mental feats.
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