New strategy! Instead of thinking that he is the age he is and expecting him to be that age, and going bananas with frustration because he can’t help not being that age, I have this new mantra: ‘think 5 year old, think 5 year old’. It started today when I was trying to get him to do an early morning urine sample for his check up, and administering antibiotics for a skin infection following a small operation for skin cancer, ‘think 5, think 5’, and thinking back to our young children when you automatically do everything for them without question. There is a caveat though, you did teach your 5 year old day by day and month by month and they grew and learned until, hopefully, they were big enough to do things for themselves. Now all that can happen is regression to before 5 or staying stable depending how the disease goes. Even if you haven’t had children yourself, what is required to care for them is well known, and now we have got one, they just happen to be old at some stage or another. ‘Think 5 year old, think 5’!