Believe it or not, the youngest member of American Mensa is three years old. There are only a few dozen Mensans currently under age of 10, each of them capable of going Children of the Corn on our asses holding adult conversations and tackling mind-bending puzzles. Your little one, who I'm sure is as brilliant as my son (pictured above), could be a Mensan, too!

Don't worry, children under the age of 14 don't have to take the regular Mensa entrance tests. Your child can qualify for membership if he/she has scored at or above the 98th percentile on one of the following standardized tests:

• Otis Lennon
• Stanford Binet
• NNAT-Individual Form
• NNAT-Multilevel Form
• WPPSI (Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence)
• Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT)
• Test of Cognitive Skills (Terra Nova)
• Woodcock-Johnson Test of Cognitive Abilities

I would assume that any 12 or 13-year-old who can take the "Woodcock-Johnson Test" without snickering will be automatically admitted to Mensa, with full privileges. Don't quote me on that, though. Instead, you should go right to the source and learn more about admitting your child to Mensa at the official site. Or, if you feel this is the geek parenting version of becoming a pageant mom, take him/her to Chuck E. Cheese instead. I learned many life lessons from that robotic sage.