I happened to stop at a story on AAJ TAK that truly shocked me!It’s about a child prodigy ,Sufia Yousof who is a mathematical genius.She was the youngest to join St.Hilda’s college ,Oxford University to study advanced mathematics at a tender age of 13 years when most of the children are still in school and experiencing childhood!

This pressure to excel was ‘forced’ on her by her overambitious father Farooq.The result of which is that she ran away from university after her final exams at the age of 15 and worked as waitress and did petty jobs and finally now at 23 ,she is the most sort after escort girl or call girl, in Manchester.The reason for the transformation from child prodigy to escort girl is said to be in her own words an escape from the ‘living hell’ excess pressure to exceed in studies during her childhood.Now she says she is having ‘FUN’ in what she is doing.She missed out on all the fun in her childhood and now she is making up for it.Even now between her clients she does solve mathematical equations,just to keep her brain working!

This is certainly an eye opener for all over ambitious parents who push their children too hard to achieve too much in a short time.Every child has a right to childhood and parents must realize from this story that it could spell disaster if you force your children too much to excel in studies,sports or whatever field it may be.Instead parents must concentrate on all round development of the child and let the child have it’s precious ‘childhood’ which is every child’s birth right!

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