When the weather starts changing like it has been, from hot to cold in one day, that means it's time for the Strong family to start playing one of our favorite seasonal games: "What strain of the common cold - or worse - will my child bring home from daycare today?"
Points are awarded for overall severity, how quickly we (the adults) succumb to it, how many days off we take, how long before it travels from one sibling to another (and mutates anew) and how many days one of us has to sleep on the couch because the other one is coughing too loud at night.
Great, great fun.
Which makes me wonder if 300 years from now, scientists and archeologists studying these times could not believe that we didn't have a cure for the common cold. "But the answer is so simple," they will say. "We didn't realize they were so primitive back then."
A blog from Everard Strong, publisher and editor of Bay Area Kids magazine, and father of two. www.bakidsmagazine.com
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