--- title: Five Best Ideas: How to Make Football Safer for Kids description: These changes might make football safer for kids to play, could a night under the stars reset your sleep schedule and more. canonical: https://time.com/4661010/football-safer-kids/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-06T17:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:06.283Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Make Football Safer for Kids og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4661010/football-safer-kids/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Make Football Safer for Kids twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Make Football Safer for Kids by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 6, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**These changes might make football safer for kids to play.**](http://www.marketplace.org/2017/02/06/world/football-little-kids-play-might-soon-look-different) By Andy Uhler at _Marketplace_ **2\.** [**Could a night under the stars reset your sleep schedule?**](http://www.popsci.com/how-to-fix-sleep-schedule-light-camping) By Rachel Feltman in _Popular Science_ **3\.** [**What if a microbe — not your good nature — made you more altruistic?**](https://phys.org/news/2017-01-microbes-altruistic-behavior.html) By Lisa Zyga in _Phys.org_ **4\.** [**The days of waiting 24 hours or longer for bacteria test results are almost over.**](http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/faster-way-of-detecting-bacteria-could-save-your-life/) By _Michigan State University_ **5\.** [**The biggest challenge facing self-driving cars? Bikes.**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/the-selfdriving-cars-bicycle-problem) By Peter Fairley at _IEEE Spectrum_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4661010/football-safer-kids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4661010/football-safer-kids/"},"headline":"How to Make Football Safer for Kids","datePublished":"2017-02-06T17:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:06.283Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4661010/football-safer-kids/","keywords":["Innovation","Sleep","Football","Bacteria","self-driving cars","altruism"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4661010/football-safer-kids/","name":"How to Make Football Safer for Kids"}}]}] ```