Precocious Children

Precocious:
1 : exceptionally early in development or occurrence of puberty.
2 : exhibiting mature qualities at an unusually early age

It seems that virtually all of the children in our various tribes these days are precocious. They just seem to arrive well advanced of where their parents were when we arrived on the scene. With this in mind, I read this article about Bill Gates with particular interest.

Here's also an interview with the reporter who wrote the story.