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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 I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Boot Career Disability Discipline Entrepreneur Focus Football Football Team Group Growing Growing Up High High School Home Joined Learned Learning Learning Disability Odds Persistence Proven School Side Skills Social Success Team Teamwork Up Value Vital Were

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Aaah, summer - that long anticipated stretch of lazy, lingering days, free of responsibility and rife with possibility. It's a time to hunt for insects, master handstands, practice swimming strokes, conquer trees, explore nooks and crannies, and make new friends.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Anticipated Conquer Days Explore Free Friends Hunt Insects Lazy Lingering Long Make Master New New Friends Possibility Practice Responsibility Stretch Strokes Summer Swimming Time Trees

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We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Artists Bubbles Children Cultivate Cultivating Doing Entrepreneurs Environments Failing Follow Front Games Generation Highly Hours Instead Mark Organized Pioneers Raising Rules Screens Sit Sports Standardized Sterile Structured Tests Today Who

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As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Back Been Budget Camps Cuts Decline Demand Fight Kids Need Old-Fashioned Our Outdoor Parents Parks Pools Programs Public Resist Risen Send Sports Summer Swimming Which

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Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Black-And-White Choice Classroom Education Embracing Frivolous Fun Happens Increasingly Inside Learning Measured Multiple Opposed Our Pencil Play Questions Serious Stuff System Thinking Via Way Which Worst

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Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Achievement Activity Attention Behavior Behavioral Children Classroom Closely Cognitive Creative Day Decline Development Help Increased Linked Meanwhile Physical Physical Activity Play Problems School Scores Social Test Test Scores

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Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Attack Building Cities Concerns Even Homework Increasing Nation New Only Our Part Periods Play Problem Recess Running Safety Schools Shrinking Soccer Tag Without

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People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.

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Topics: Best Boxed Currently Get Happens Important Kinds More Only People Play Playground See Than Thinking Type Want

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We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Children Happier Healthier Know Live Lives Place Play

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In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

~Darell Hammond

Topics: Childhood Increases Neighborhoods Obesity Park Percent Playground Usable Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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