M y daughter is four and learning phonetics in school. The teacher writes out sounds and asks for words beginning with the sound. My daughter is extremely verbal and eager to volunteer answers. I am summoned to school a few weeks later. I’m quietly smug knowing that her vocabulary is excellent for her age. Maybe they will ask me what I have done to make her the genius she so clearly is. I show up in school and her contributions in class are shared with me. P “says” puh and she has volunteered “Pissed off”, B “says” buh and she shouted out “Bloody Mary”! S “says” suh and she was, “Oh, I know a good one, Sigarette”! lll My son goes to school with kids who seem like normal children but are clearly saints in school uniform because all the other mothers talk breathlessly about their children’s glowing hearts. Every year before the school year starts, parents are invited to school to meet with the class teacher and write a card to their child which will be pinned up on the class board.…