--- title: Five Best: Don’t Force Yourself To Be A Morning Person description: Don’t force yourself to be a morning person, grandparents might unintentionally be bad for children’s health and more. canonical: https://time.com/5031528/dont-force-yourself-to-be-a-morning-person/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-20T17:00:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:19.944Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Don’t Force Yourself To Be A Morning Person og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5031528/dont-force-yourself-to-be-a-morning-person/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71b35f04d0d44ccd/6988e6737cdbac3aa0d5af29/gettyimages-534573211.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Businessman napping on train og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Don’t Force Yourself To Be A Morning Person twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71b35f04d0d44ccd/6988e6737cdbac3aa0d5af29/gettyimages-534573211.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Don’t Force Yourself To Be A Morning Person by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 20, 2017 5:00 PM UTC  Paul Bradbury—Getty Images/Caiaimage by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 20, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Don’t force yourself to be a morning person.**](http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20171114-why-you-shouldnt-try-to-be-a-morning-person) By Amanda Ruggeri in _BBC News_ **2\.** [**Grandparents might — unintentionally — be bad for children’s health.**](https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline%5F559766%5Fen.html) By the _University of Glasgow_ **3\.** [**How Asia’s cities grow could be the key to saving the planet.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-16/asia-s-cities-could-be-key-to-fighting-climate-change) By the Editors in _Bloomberg View_ **4\.** [**Tiger sharks are helping seagrass recover — which is supporting countless ocean species.**](http://earthsky.org/earth/tiger-sharks-help-seagrass-sharkbay-australia-heatwave) By Deanna Conners in _EarthSky_ **5\.** [**In the age of remote warfare, how are we protecting warriors from the trauma of killing?**](https://lawfareblog.com/avengers-wrath-moral-agency-and-trauma-prevention-remote-warriors) By Dave Blair and Karen House in _Lawfare_  [_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/5031528/dont-force-yourself-to-be-a-morning-person/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5031528/dont-force-yourself-to-be-a-morning-person/"},"headline":"Don’t Force Yourself To Be A Morning Person","datePublished":"2017-11-20T17:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:19.944Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5031528/dont-force-yourself-to-be-a-morning-person/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Children","Environment","Innovation","war","Asia","productivity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71b35f04d0d44ccd/6988e6737cdbac3aa0d5af29/gettyimages-534573211.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71b35f04d0d44ccd/6988e6737cdbac3aa0d5af29/gettyimages-534573211.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Businessman napping on train","caption":"Businessman napping on train","creditText":"Paul Bradbury—Getty Images/Caiaimage","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5031528/dont-force-yourself-to-be-a-morning-person/","name":"Don’t Force Yourself To Be A Morning Person"}}]}] ```