this sucks

This is downright depressing. Check out the latest and greatest in a series of scary trends for America's youts (My cousin Vinny).

I get so tired of being right, especially about this particular topic.

I'll say it again:

Until we take the time and money to teach our kids about eating right and exercising, not just blowing smoke, we aren't accomplishing jack.

It's that simple.

Half a century of better living through better drugs did nothing but produce 2 generations of fat, sick, depressed, and addicted humans. The proof is indisputable.

Want healthy kids? Put someone in charge of making sure they have all the tools to be healthy, and then check in with them regularly. That is the only way. End of story.

dudes.

And we're back.

So I have two children now, two boys!

Jackson Avery was born September 20th, it has been a heck of a ride. I had assumed that it would be twice as crazy since we were doubling the number of kids we had.

I was wrong.

I was off the mark by an order of magnitude. It's easily 4x as nuts around the house. I love it. Big James is as rowdy as ever, and at the height of a 4 year old, he is a beast. All we do is wrestle, like the cartoons, where the fighting is a cloud of fists and legs, that's us. Thank God for such a patient wife.

When I was single, child-less, (and well-rested) people told me how much more fulfilling my life would be once I had kids. I humored them, after all, I was the one driving the H2 and flying out of town every weekend while they went home to their kids and early bedtimes. I figured, how could they possibly compare the two.

I don't know if I have been as wrong about anything as I was about that.

I figure, I have about 9 years that James will still think I'm cool and want to be around me, gotta milk it!