Dealing with crying, kicking and screaming kids while near them in passenger seats presents several scenarios. It depends on whether the kids are yours or not.

If you’re responsible for the little trouble-maker:
1. Respect the rights of other passengers. If your child becomes unruly and annoying, calm the situation with a bottle or snack. If disruption continues, including change of diapers, ask the attendant to find a place away from passenger seating to do it.

2. If the problem continues, and if the flight isn’t full, ask to find you another seat, where disturbance to other passengers is minimal.

3. Try to schedule red-eye flights when there are fewer passengers, with more empty seats available. They depart between 11 pm and 4 am. Late night hours are when kids are used to be sleeping. Feed your child a regular evening meal before take-off, and get settled comfortably into the seat by take off.

That strange study on elder health came from researchers in Portugal. Because of seniors’ alleged TV obsession and just plain laziness, the claim is that we oldsters simply spend too much time doing nothing.

Along with urging us to get up every 6.67 minutes, the survey makes a bit more sense by recommending at least 30 total minutes a day of physical exercise. Here are suggestions on how to improve health by activity, even if you can only leap or creep off the couch just once or twice an hour:

According to AARP Travel research, only 15% of Americans age 45 and up have enjoyed a couples togetherness journey in the past two years. With the annual February day celebrating love approaching, travel4seniors.com joins AARP in recommending travel planning that celebrates, reinforces and reinvigorates togetherness. The research also found that once couples go away together on a romantic trip, an overwhelming 95% would do it again within a year.

Dr. Pepper Schwartz, AARP Love and Relationships Ambassador, reports, “Getting away for just a weekend to dine out, learn something new or relax on a beach can help foster a stronger bond in a relationship.” Her just-published book, Places For Passion, suggests 75 romantic world destinations for renewal of the bonds of love.

The Hollywood Reporter recently ran an article titled, How To Live Forever. It offered far-out predictions claiming some day humans can actually live as many as Methusalah’s 900 years.

Moses (currently starring in new movie, Exodus: Gods and Kings, made it to age 120. If he had a SmartPhone then, he could’ve shot a selfie of his craggy face as proof.

The long life premise includes biologically-engineered diets, digitalized exercise regimens and frequent replacement of worn-out body parts. In Hollywood there are many other medical, chemical and voodoo theories about longevity. In most cases, the intent is not necessarily to live longer, but to look younger longer.