Hi, HayClan Mom -
Same thing here basically, My son told me about the game, I found VV2 first, got hooked and then got into VV1.

The Golden Child is in VV1. On the details screen it says Golden Child - he's in a gold cape and he's bald. He's the only villager that's born at 5 years old and stays that age.

I played and played with my first village on VV2 - and it seems to me anyway, that if you leave the game play on 1/2 speed, they seem to get more done when you quit out of the game and leave them go for a couple of hours on their own and then come back. If you are playing on the hard setting I don't recommend that as much, as its much harder to keep your village healthy, but on easy and normal once you have a decent food supply and have your people trained in the tasks you want them to work on for a while, they seem to do better than when you are watching them.

If you have it on 1/2 speed it can take longer, since its a real time game. (to get a master builder)

enjoy.
Jen