Genius Mind Academy - Community Thread

[jasonchow]

blesseddad:

Yes I have heard of it and have also heard some parents share their testimonies of how their children have benefitted from it.

A close friend's son went for the workshop in Oct last year. He has also shared with me the improvements he sees in his son.

Have you attended the preview?

Yes, so it works?

[cimman]

jasonchow:

blesseddad:

Yes I have heard of it and have also heard some parents share their testimonies of how their children have benefitted from it.

A close friend's son went for the workshop in Oct last year. He has also shared with me the improvements he sees in his son.

Have you attended the preview?

Yes, so it works?

please see my comments in this
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18874

go through the links I've pasted there and determine for yourself if this is a scam.

The children are taught to see through the gap between the eye mask and the nose. It is impossible to change the brain in 2 days.

you can read my other comments here:
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7409&start=10

in the above post, I mentioned the placebo effect. This affects both the child and the parent. If you give your child a stone, and say it's a magic stone to improve his concentration and if your child wants to improve himself and believes in it, his concentration will improve. As for the parent, after paying a large sum of money, any little thing the child does becomes an improvement. You'll save a lot of money by just giving your child a \"magic\" stone.

here is another link, urging parents to take this with a grain of salt:
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/education/caution-urged-over-blindfold-brain-gym-craze/390311

so midbrain activation is a scam and not only is it a scam, it teaches your children to lie to you as to what goes on in the course.

[jasonchow]

Thank you so much for your sharing.

Will go and check it out!

[princessyv]

I came across this centre at the Kids Academy Camp at Suntec. Never heard of them before. I spoke with one of the staff and learnt that they were considered new, came to Singapore last year, origin from Malaysia.


Their video sharing at the exhibition is impressive… kids able to sense surrounding even when blind-folded. Amazing…

Anyone has any feedback to share please?

[blesseddad]

princessyv:

I came across this centre at the Kids Academy Camp at Suntec. Never heard of them before. I spoke with one of the staff and learnt that they were considered new, came to Singapore last year, origin from Malaysia.


Their video sharing at the exhibition is impressive... kids able to sense surrounding even when blind-folded. Amazing...

Anyone has any feedback to share please?

go to http://www.geniusmindacademy.com.sg/referredby.aspx?ae=brian.pang@geniusmindacademy.com.sg and see the testimonials from parents.

[cimman]

please see my feedback here:

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20311

and here:
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7409&start=10

[Rabbit02]

blesseddad:

princessyv:

I came across this centre at the Kids Academy Camp at Suntec. Never heard of them before. I spoke with one of the staff and learnt that they were considered new, came to Singapore last year, origin from Malaysia.


Their video sharing at the exhibition is impressive... kids able to sense surrounding even when blind-folded. Amazing...

Anyone has any feedback to share please?

go to http://www.geniusmindacademy.com.sg/referredby.aspx?ae=brian.pang@geniusmindacademy.com.sg and see the testimonials from parents.

I am very wary of such claims. Still see when blind folded? What are our eyes for then?

[Rabbit02]

cimman:

cotton candy:

:? Any credibility in the first few posts?

as with all things on the internet, read with a critical mind. Never believe information from a single source. On the internet, both views will be present. The marketing view, propagated by the product company, and spread through clever internet marketing techniques and the negative view.

At the end of the day, you have to judge which view is more logical, more plausible. Critical questioning is good ie. if this works, why don't they market it to the blind community, they will have a ready market. Money is not an issue, people are willing to donate money for a good cause. Besides, a blind child who learned to \"see\" will generate a lot of publicity for the product.

On the internet, you can't really trust people's identities. A male can be a female, a child can be an adult, a testimonial can be a marketing blurb, etc...

Rome was not built in a day. Brains cannot be changed in 2 days, especially if the majority of the time was spent watching TV cartoons and sleeping.
You be the judge.

Of course, there is the placebo effect. After spending a large sum of money, you'll want to believe that your child has turned into a genius, cos' the alternative would have been too painful to accept.

Unfortunately, there are still gullible people around. This blindfold reading/seeing or whatever you named it appeared at the recent Kidz Academy exhibition. And mind, these \"sales agents\" are \"aggressive\" They should make their sales pitch to the visually impaired first and then prove it! Only then, Buy!

[Passerby]

Guess such centres will always have some amount of business, as they prey on anxious parents, who may be keen to consider all sorts of options regardless of whether it sounds plausible at all, and in some cases when you have another \"parent\" recommending that it works cos their kid became smarter as a result of the training, there will then naturally be interested parties who may wish to reverse / enhance what nature has given their child! Imagine a program that can make one smarter??!!


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=393852#393852

[Potential]

Hi All


Both my children went through the activation program last June. Both have improve memory and attitude. Their academy results improve so much that now both have a lot of confidence to achieve better results.

But please note. The official one is the one at Mountbatten knows at GMA.

The one teach to pit if I am not wrong should be at another place. So be very careful where you send to. GMA has maintainence program.

Should you require more information please feel free to write to me at shirtsl@singnet.com.sg.

Cheers