For 10-year-old Sheldon Cooper, being vulnerable, naive and stratospherically smart isn't always helpful in a place like East Texas, where church and sports rule. His football-coach father, George Sr.; fiercely protective mother, Mary; older brother, Georgie; and twin sister, Missy, do their best to support the high-maintenance, high-IQ child while coping with their own ups and downs. But it's tough love from his no-nonsense, tell-it-li
