superkid

plural superkids

1. colloquialA child of remarkable talents or abilities.

   Elkind appealed to parents prone to live for and through their child's accomplishments to give up their vain desire for a superkid, refrain from exaggerating the child's competence, and stop rushing and pushing the child into adulthood.

   2004, Laura E. Berk, Awakening Children's Minds

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   WHEN Kali Grosvenor was nine years old, back in 1970, she achieved a level of celebrity as a superkid. Her first book, Poems by Kali, had been published by a major firm (Doubleday) and was selling at the rate of 1,000 copies a week […]

   1974, Ebony, volume 29, number 10, page 96