My oldest child has always enjoyed playing with dolls, dressing up in costumes and having tea parties. I have a feeling that things are about to change. She will enter the fourth grade next month. From what the teachers at school tell me, this is the year when playground games end and drama begins. Tether ball tournaments turn into gossip sessions. Swinging on the monkey bars is replaced with rounds of “My friend likes you. Do you want to go out with her?” Innocence is abandoned at the roadside as the kids head for the bright lights of the highway …read more