Tom lives in a town near New York. His father has a factory there and his mother is a doctor. He is seven and begins to go to school this September. The school is a little far from home and his father drives a car to take him to school five days a week. So he is never late for class and his teachers like him very much.    
    It is Monday today. Miss Green is teaching them to count from one to ten in the morning. Tom is studying hard. Soon he can count them. Miss Green is happy and asks, “How many people are there in your family, Tom?”
    Tom stands up and says,
    “Two, Miss Green.”
   “Who are they? ”
   “My father and my mother.”
   “Oh,” Miss Green is surprised. Then she says, “There are three people in your family.”
   “But now I’m not at home. I’m at school, you know!”