[tlrugit]

I figure if you show them a normal male/female relationship they'll turn out okay. I also think that if you love and support your children, then they will turn out fine. Of course, my kids are only 6 and 8, so I don't know what they will be like in 10 or 20 years.

Sounds like a recepie for success. I was small, skinny and uncoordinated, no good at sports and pestered mercilessly about being a 'homo', and I was and am crazy about women (my wife will vouch for me). In fact, while I was in the Navy I was seriously propositioned by a guy and I just looked at him in puzzled suprise and said, "Why? That doesn't make any sense." And walked away. Still doesn't make any sense.

[mdmathis6]

I had that problem too growing up, but I was at least a fairly decent wrestler(not in school) having had a dad who loved championship wrestling of TV. We boys would tusstle and fight a lot.

In middle and early highschool I was very skinny, and living alone with my mother at the time(my parents divorced and family split). Nevertheless, over my high-school years I would choose my battles and usually one good fight ended the teasing for the year. Seems this skinny kid had a reputation for having a core of steel, and had this amazing way of wrapping his opponents up with his skinny long arms(at least until the teachers came and broke up the fight.)I never got hurt . Yeah, I might have taken a little ribbing still, but over time in my Junior or Senior years, people grew up, I got more confidence and in the end all the silly little kid stuff didn't matter anymore. You see I respected myself, though I didn't always know myself...even the most popular fellows wiped themselves the same way I did, so the heck with them!(and that's what I think of petty politicians and other pretentious scalawags!)