A gifted child

Matthias has been nominated by his teacher for a place in The City of Edinburgh Council's summer programme for gifted/talented pupils. And he has been selected to take part in the programme's philosophy group. This means he will spend a week in August learning and discussing with other pupils from Edinburgh schools. Needless to say, the letter from the council is adressed to his mother only, as if his father, yours truly, didn't exist. Now there's a topic for debate.
We have been trying to explain to Matthias for a while now what philosophy is, and being a regular viewer of The Simpsons he had few problems understanding it, though he is of course not sure what the programme might actually contain. Neither are we, but it sounds interesting.
Sofie joined her school's newly formed debating society yesterday and fell ill yesterday evening. I do not hope there is any connection.