The mother of Sean Atitsogbe, the 10-year-old Ghanaian-born American who in recent months put Ghana on the map by featuring on major television programmes in the United States, has told the story behind the young science prodigy.
Speaking in an interview with TV3 on Monday, September 9, 2025, Atitsogbe disclosed that her son is a gifted child.
She indicated that her family realised that Sean Atitsogbe, who is popularly known as "Sean the Science Kid," was special just after six months of his birth. "I got to know he was special at about six months, but we got to know for sure when he was nine months, when we realised that he could read at such a tender age. "Somewhere around six months, I realised that when I gave him kids' programmes to watch, he wasn't interested in those programmes, but rather he was interested in the advertisements, which are mostly educational programmes in the US," she said.
She said that anytime the ads for the educational programmes ended, Sean would start crying, and she decided to switch and make him watch only the educational programmes.
