You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.

Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time.

That's a smart kid doing a smart thing.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

I liked working with smart people.