What Makes A Genius

You'd probably like your kids to be brilliant geniuses, right? Here's how to get them started.

Geniuses have one thing is common. A genius first name. The website Moosroots studied 14,750 geniuses and found these are the top five names for male geniuses:

John

Paul

George

Charles

David

Sorry, there was no "Ringo".

Here are the top five female genius names:

Alice...as in Wonderland.

Dorothy...as in wearing ruby slippers, with a dog named Toto, hanging with a scarecrow, a tin woodsman and a talking, cowardly lion.

Maria...as in "how do you solve a problem like..."

Ruth

Susan

The list of geniuses includes writers, scientists, mathematicians, artists, inventors, composers and Nobel laureates. Your kid, or kids could one day be on that list, too. With the right first name. Check out the other names on the genius list at the MooseRoots website.

What does your child do that tells you he or she is a genius? We were walking out the door for church on Sunday, y'know when the wind chill was -35. My son was wearing a tee shirt. I asked where his coat was. He said in his locker at school. I told him he was a genius. That was the best place for it over a long, three-day holiday weekend. We had a good laugh.