Christy Mathewson Quotes

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.

Physical development fosters learning.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

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.

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

I think I started toddler gymnastics when I was around 3 or 4, and I began taking it seriously when I was 6.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

I think I learned how to swim before I could walk.

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

I could walk and swim at 10 months old.

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

The question for me was, could TV actually teach? I knew it could, because I knew 3-year-olds who sang beer commercials!

But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.