Toxins love to get you while youre young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when its mature and comparatively fixed. – Jeffrey Kluger
There arent a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but heres one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and heres betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if youre a parent, so do you. – Jeffrey Kluger
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you dont adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. – Jeffrey Kluger
Older fatherhood isnt all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something whos just getting started. – Jeffrey Kluger