Protecting your child's long-term health may mean not getting a prescription for antibiotics—even in cases of ear and sinus infections, write Jessica and Tim Lahey at The Atlantic. The authors were surprised that their "smart, highly educated" friends turn easily to antibiotics for their children. Only problem: Human bacteria is becoming so antibiotics-resistant that a prescription may well be useless in a few years, and "people [will] die from what are currently nuisance illnesses easily cured with a pill." So the Taheys offer a few tips to avoid the "antibiotic apocalypse":