Everybody’s Sick! What Do You Do?

Two of my favorite people in the world welcomed twins into their family back in July. They are amazing parents — at least in my humble opinion. It certainly doesn’t seem easy to have twins, but they make it look good. This month, they both got sick. Some sort of upper respiratory crud — not the flu, hopefully, because everybody had their flu shots — that lingered on and on, sapping energy on top of making them feel miserable. I was talking to mom as they were starting to get better… and she commented that she practically hadn’t seen dad … Continue reading

How Can Parents Live Longer?

Do you want to know the secret to living longer? Of course you do, we all do. A group of researchers think they have found the answer. And the answer is to have fewer children. According to the results of a recent study it was found that the more children a couple had, the worse their health was and the more likely they were to die at an early age. The researchers from the University of Utah looked at couples residing in Utah between 1860 and 1985. The couples bore a total of 174,000 children. The researchers found that among … Continue reading