I’ve not seen Czed Miguel
“Miggy” Ebojo, the ‘Wonder Kid of Bohol’ for almost three weeks after his story
was aired on GMA’s 24 Oras.
It took me three days to
finish the story about Miggy because a day was not enough to observe a
child whose intellect and independence of spirit
simply aren’t ordinary.
The other day, Clyde,
Miggy’s father, told me the genius boy is doing fine.
Miggy has completed tests
that show his IQ as very superior– that many people considering him the “Wonder
Kid of Bohol.”
“We started to realize he
was different at two years old. He learned a lot of things as a two year old
far from normal compared to another children at his age group,” said 31
year-old Clyde, also a musician.
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| Czed Miguel “Miggy” Ebojo,
the Wonder Kid of Bohol. Photo by Leo Udtohan |
That’s when his parents
said Miggy started using words, like the names of shapes, colors and numbers.
Then, Miggy could write
and read words at age 2.
At 3 years old, when a
typical kid has about a dozen words in their vocabulary, Miggy could sing the
ABCs –and well sing it backward, too.
He knows about the solar
system, the planets and how many moons does each planet has. He knows Pluto was the 12th
planet until 2006.
When asked who created the
universe, Miggy just said, “Jesus! He does. There’s no other God, no god other.
Only one.”
Miggy can count in
English, Chinese, Japanese and Russian from 1-100. He can multiply in
Spanish. He knows the how many chapters
of the books in the Holy Bible.
That's not it.
Miggy also knows on what
day your birthday falls from 2019 until the year 2030. Plus, he also knows the
composition of a planet and how many moons does each planet has.
According to his parents,
no one taught Miggy all these things.
When Miggy turned four,
first time parents Clyde and Marjorie worried of their son’s abilities.
“I am worried about
Miggy’s abilities as parents. I really don’t have idea how to raise a child
like him,” said Marjorie, 28, who began searching for resources to help with
his rapid development.
She said she is afraid other
people may not understand her son’s ways.
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| Czed Miguel “Miggy” Ebojo
with his parents Clyde and Marjorie. Photo by Leo Udtohan |
Last June, the couple went
to Holy Name University Testing Center and had Miggy’s intelligence tested. The
result showed Miggy’s IQ was very
superior.
They also went to see a
Bohol-based clinical psychologist Dr. Kit Balane to evaluate Miggy’s sky-high
IQ. It turned out that Miggy’s IQ is upper extreme or genius.
“Miggy is fours year old
but his IQ is in the upper extreme. It’s safe to say Miggy is a gifted child as
far as his IQ is concerned,” said Balane.
“He has the potential to
learn fast, to process information quickly, and correctly as far as Miggy’s
intelligence concerned,” he added.
Balane encouraged the
parents to nurture the learning potential of Miggy.
“ It is very important
that Miggy is provided enforcement at home other than what he gets at school.
Parents can provide time, creative materials, reading materials but also not
forgetting the social emotional needs of the child,” said Balane who
established the only clinic in Bohol for a decade.
It is also important that
Miggy should be in school that has understood his particular creativity since
bright kids process so rapidly that by midday they can be mentally burnt-out
and hard to teach.
Miggy started nursery 1
last June.
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| Miggy Ebojo. Photo by Leo Udtohan |
“As a parent, I’m really
proud of my son,” his father said. “I’m super-excited he has this gift.”
But his gifted
intelligence doesn’t mean Miggy isn’t still like any other four-year-old kid.
When he grows up, Miggy
said he wants to be a doctor.
His favorite day is
Saturday because it is his cellphone and TV day. Math is his most favourite
subject.
Clyde and Marjorie said they
just want their son to have a normal childhood, gifts and all.
“We are proud of our
little boy what he is now and what he will become in the future,” said
Marjorie.
Clyde said it’s not really
intelligence that does matter in this world but how his son will deal with
different walks of life.
“We are teaching him how
to become a good person. It’s not our priority to make him more intelligent.
What we hope for and we love to see about him is that he will impact the
community and he will grow with so much love as we teach him every day,” Clyde
said.
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