Watch for these tell-tale warning signs:
You buy your child an educational software program, and she asks which
authoring tool it was written in.
Your child has torn apart his teddy bear and is studying the chemical
composition of the filling.
She can program your VCR, while you haven't been able to get it to stop
blinking "12:00."
He has removed the voice box from his Talking Elmo doll and reprogrammed
it to recite the periodic table.
She has replaced the arms and legs of her Barbie Doll with bionic limbs.
He is picked last on every sports team.
You take her to see Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame," and
all she's interested in is the computer animation.
He has Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs, posters in his room.
She believes that if she's really good, Santa will give her a client/server
network for Christmas.
He throws a temper tantrum every time you refuse to take him into Fry's.
She has accepted a scholarship to MIT. And she's five.
She can't get a date.
He has defeated the "child-guard" software on your Web browser
and has connected to www.playboy.com.
Forget Dr. Seuss and Beatrix Potter. She wants you to read her Carl Sagan.