Mikaela Shiffrin Quotes

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

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.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

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

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

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 habits, versus interventions needed later in life.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

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 that provides ample time and space to play.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.

'Tree Fu Tom' is a truly interactive programme because it is designed to help children get up off the sofa and physically move, which is a very important part of children's development.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

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

The illustrations in picture books are the first paintings most children see, and because of that, they are incredibly important. What we see and share at that age stays with us for life.

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

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.

I've learned that creating a healthy, active environment for kids helps build the foundation for a successful future.

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

I was running around and bouncing out of the pram as a baby.

My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.