Tim Falconer is a freelance writer, instructor, and author of  Watchdogs and Gadflies: Activism from Marginal to Mainstream, Drive: A Road Trip Through Our Complicated Affair with the Automobile, and That Good Night: Ethicists, Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care. He is also the co-author, with psychologist and popular parenting expert Alex Russell, of Drop the Worry Ball: How to Parent in the Age of Entitlement (Wiley, 2012).