I'm working on getting Li'l Writer Guy home from Switzerland, but in the meantime, enjoy this wonderful story of a three-year-old who saved her father's life by walking to a nearby fire station and asking for help. Note both that young children can be much more competent than we generally expect these days, and that this competence did not arise in a vacuum, but had been nurtured by her parents. It doesn't have to be, in the words of the reporter, "very un-three-year-old-like."
I can't embed the video, but you can find it on the right of the above-linked page, or here. (H/T Free-Range Kids.)