Zach LaVine Quotes

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.

It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with time and space to play.

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

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.

Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.

When I go to school, I'm always happy because it's a normal kid thing.

We used to play a lot outdoors, not in leagues, but just in our spare time.

We have a lot of pressures on children very young. We have ambition. We over-schedule our children. We want them to have soccer lessons and violin lessons... I think children need to have at least an hour of fun a day.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

What matters now is the well-being of our kids.

One thing that I notice that is changing, you don't see kids on Sunday. Most of them are home. The kids are having much more virtual childhoods instead of childhoods. They don't play ball or hang out with the wrong people or get in fistfights, all the things that once made childhood. I don't know how it's going to turn out.

When I was young, I was supposed to study in the afternoon, and 4 - 5:30 P.M. was playtime. The entire day would revolve around that time. We would play anything - kabaddi, cricket. Those one and half hours would feel like 5 minutes.

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play—is increasingly recognized as an essential component of wholesome child development.

Children should be kept as normal as possible. At a very young age, they are not even aware of the happenings around them. You need to do whatever you can to grow them normally.

It's amazing what the power of sport does for children and communities.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

Some of my friends wanted to do different things, but all I ever wanted to do was play outside with a ball.

My first day at Duddingston Primary is probably my first memory.

I enjoyed physical education and lunch time. The social aspect of school was great, but as soon as I left school, I wanted to get out there and race. I couldn't sit still for long.

As a child, you are influenced by your parents' actions.

I knew about boxing, as my dad could fight. He had a successful security firm in Liverpool, and I'd see him come back from a jog before shadow boxing in the back yard. I'd watch and replicate what he was doing, as kids do. It's funny how things turn out.

I do have a regular childhood.

As a kid, my favorite subject was recess. Why? Because I could go play basketball.