We would say that the children of all three extraterrestrial races are prodigies, compared to human young, and become self-reliant and self-sufficient at a very young age. Not only are they brilliant intellectually, they are "normal" in having access to parts of the mind that are corrupted through genetic manipulation among humans. So they can use more of their faculties for quick learning, memory retention, and creativity, enough to parlay their learning into increasingly effective and efficient functioning. By comparison, human young languish for many, many years of immaturity and must indulge in fantasy much of the time to aid their own development, partly because of the inherent defects in the human genome that were manipulated almost at the very beginning of the appearance of the human race, but also because they are manipulated and held back by the culture. Humans are programmed to have low expectations of the young, to keep them sidelined and infantilized more than need be, and put through a schooling process that is often as much counterproductive as helpful. This also stifles maturation and development of useful talents and skills, so this makes human parents complicit in subjugation of humanity, unwittingly through programming, in how they treat the young to limit their options and keep them constrained more than is healthy.
In the alien worlds, again due to a kind of detached setting of standards all are expected to meet, the young are challenged from the outside in ways that fosters rapid progress and development of the needed skills and knowledge to help them become self-sufficient. There will be many pressures on them, even threatening survival, in worlds where a standard way of dealing with adversaries is to eliminate them if possible. This is a survival of the fittest mentality in the absence of moral precepts that are spiritual in origin, and in atheist worlds will be absent because that leads to a downward spiral of ever-increasing degradation. So children, from a very young age in the alien regimes, will have tremendous pressures and incentives to perform, and can have a very realistic life and death imperative made clear to them because, in their world, failure to succeed will likely mean death rather than simply falling behind and perhaps being poor or even homeless.
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