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Health—Yours and Theirs

Keeping Your Workparent Family Well—and What to Do When You’re Under the Weather

Disclaimer: this chapter isn’t going to offer you any medical advice, or new ways to cure disease, or insights on ensuring longevity. If you want any of those things, you should speak with a qualified healthcare practitioner.

If, however, you’ve turned to this page because the day-to-day challenge of combining children and career is already stretching you thin, and you need advice and encouragement on how, even in the face of those pressures, to handle the extrastressful periods when your kids—or you yourself—aren’t in top form, keep right on reading.

Since you’ve got plenty to worry about, we’re going to keep things simple. For each ...