Darell Hammond Quotes

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• Only one in five children in the U.S. lives within walking distance of a park. Many more lack access to a quality early childhood education…
• During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into…
• When given age-appropriate challenges, children tend to take them very seriously; in fact, the more obvious the risk is, the more cautiously a child will…
• No child wants to fall off a jungle gym or slide. Accidents are an unfortunate fact of life, but to lower every last slide and…
• At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are located,…
• We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.
• Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place…
• By providing our young children with opportunities for free, child-directed play, along with proper nutrition, we are setting them up for a lifetime of healthy…
• We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.
• Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.
• The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve…
• In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.
• Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when…
• Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games.…
• Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs…
• I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a…

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