Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

That would be Lucas. He recently told me that they discussed bullying in school, so if I was in any doubt that he was moving into a new phase of life, this confirmed it. He is moving into the 8-12 yr phase where bullying and such things occur (and this precedes the teen-adolescent phase). Lucas doesn't want to go to the ladies' bathroom with me anymore, so as he becomes more independent we've had to have the "good touch/bad touch" discussion. This is still ongoing (' The Right Touch ', ' It's My Body '). I had only recently restarted reading parenting books after a fairly long hiatus (I just finished ' Raising Cain ' and ' The Trouble With Boys ' before that). They discuss many factors affecting boys, and while the father is by no means the only important element in raising boys, it is a significant one. In their book 'Raising Cain', the authors say, " It is clear to us that the most emotionally resourceful a...