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In this issue of The Upworthiest, Evan Porter points out that everybody lecturing parents about walking to school has not tried walking to school lately. So he did. Stick around for a school bus question that stumps most people. Also, the Memphis restaurant raising its age limit to 30, a little girl's two-word answer to a classmate, and the unglamorous habits that actually change things.
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Man tries to walk 1 mile to school and immediately finds out why parents don’t let kids do it | ||
It’s not kidnappers that parents are worried about. | ||
By Evan Porter | ||
It’s been happening quietly for decades: Fewer and fewer kids are walking or biking to school. The number is at about 11% today, down from about half of all kids under 15 in the 1960s. Even more staggering, back then nearly 90% of kids who lived less than a mile from school would walk or bike on a daily basis. | ||
This shift is often chalked up to today’s parents. Anxious Generation author Jonathan Haidt frequently calls on parents to give kids more autonomy, arguing that sheltered kids are more likely to be anxious and depressed. | ||
But there’s just one problem: Has anyone weighing in on this shift actually tried walking to school recently? | ||
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A Memphis restaurant banned all customers under 30 and locals are cheering the decision | ||
“The older crowd, they’re kind of laid back, they’re chill.” | ||
By Adam Albright-Hanna | ||
Restaurants frequently update their policies regarding dress codes or reservation rules to improve the dining experience for their guests. A bar and lounge in southeastern Memphis has taken crowd control a step further by banning anyone in their twenties from entering the building. | ||
For several years, Prive welcomed patrons 21 and older. According to a report by WHBQ-TV, the establishment recently posted a new notice on its front doors raising the minimum entry age to 30, a policy that went into effect on August 1. | ||
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A parent's biggest flex: raising a kid who still wants to check in!
A little girl’s classmate asked who the man picking her up was. Her two-word answer made him emotional for the rest of the day. | ||
It’d be nice if there were a simple rulebook for step-relationships. | ||
By Tim Mercer | ||
Julian wasn’t expecting anything unusual when he pulled up to pick up his stepdaughter from school. Just another ordinary afternoon errand. But when one of her classmates pointed at him and asked who he was, his stepdaughter answered without hesitating for even a second. | ||
“That’s my dad.” | ||
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An Upworthiest Quiz
School bus yellow was picked at a seven-day conference in 1939 for which one specific reason?
Yesterday’s Results
We asked you: Which old movie cliché are you most glad we left behind? Almost 60% of you were happy to see the vision-shaming glass-removal scene fall out of favor.
Damsel tied to the tracks (28.0%)
Running through an airport to stop a wedding (8.5%)
Removing her glasses to reveal she was gorgeous (57.2%)
The dramatic rain-soaked apology (6.4%)
Upworthiest reader P111NC made a great point in the comments. “The fact that glasses are a detriment to one’s appearance is anathema to me. See the whole person!”
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You’re not trying to be perfect. You’re trying to become unbreakable. | ||
14 boring habits that can quietly rebuild your life, according to science | ||
“This system assumes chaos is inevitable.” | ||
By Kat Hong | ||
Most self-help advice gets one major aspect wrong: the habits that actually change your life aren’t the dramatic ones. They’re not 5 a.m. cold plunges or 75-day fitness challenges. They’re much more subtle, and almost embarrassingly ordinary. But that’s the point. | ||
Done consistently, the small stuff shapes how you feel, how you show up to the world, and the person you become over time. YouTube user Ideas to Thrive understands this essential truth. In a recent video, “17 Boring Habits That Quietly Rebuilt My Life,” they detail 17 “embarrassingly easy habits that are too small to fail.” | ||
The ideas are simple: create bite-sized routines that fit seamlessly into your day, and build different versions of those systems for different days, whether good or chaotic. The goal is to stick with these practices, daily or weekly, even on turbulent days when nothing seems to go right. They write: | ||
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