http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4325458.html Graduated college at 10? Damn. Now he's a millionaire too. I don't have a degree, which wouldn't matter much if I had a million bucks, but I don't have that either.
60 minutes did a story on this kid years ago. His life really didn't look like very much fun. His mom had to sit with him in college classes and he never had a childhood because he was always working on school and they always had to give him more work to "challenge" him. I know a million bucks is nice, but I'd rather have real childhood.
I agree. My wife is always talking about getting our son into gifted programs and having him graduate early. For one thing he's only 3 so that's way too early. Secondly, why hurry up his adulthood? Force him one year earlier into having to worry about paying bills, etc.
C'mon! While we all wanted to "grow up" you didn't have fun at all as a child? As much as I hate to say this, if I could relive my life for only one year, it would be age 12.
I'm sure there were some good times, but mostly I just remember a whole lot of bad. It could've been much worse, but I just remember feeling nearly unrelenting sadness and loneliness, as well as a feeling of helplessness due to a lack of control over nearly any aspect of my life (and I didn't care for that). My greatest fear is that time is circular and, when we die, we go back and do it all again.
