Why Temple Grandin wants your kids to go outside
Before she became a famous scientist and inventor, Temple Grandin was a kid who liked to play outside.
“I absolutely loved flying kites,” she said. “We would just make up our own games go sit in the field and make daisy chains.” All that undirected, childhood play, Grandin believes, amounted to more than goofing off. It was a foundation for her life in the sciences.
Now an animal behavior expert and professor at Colorado State University, Grandin has published more than 60 scientific papers. She is an advocate for people with autism, and in 2010 landed on Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
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Tired of feeling stressed out? Over the last year, people’s stress levels have been pushed to their limits and that can do a number on your body. In the short-term, it can give you headaches and upset stomachs, zap your energy and mess with your sleep, which makes you even crankier. And when stress becomes chronic, it can affect how well your body can fight infection.
But there are steps we can take to get stress under control. These tips from experts can help stop stress from taking over and may even prevent it from happening in the first place.
A new survey from the American Psychological Association found that while 47% of people have seen their stress rise over the pandemic, about 43% saw no change in stress and 7% felt less stress.