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We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.
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Healthier
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A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.
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Exercise
Cultural
Daily
Daily Lives
Incorporate
Shift
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Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.
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Bars
Sake
Invest
Monkey
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In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.
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Childhood
Incidence
Obesity
Percent
Neighborhoods
Park
Playground
Usable
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Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.
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Entrepreneur
Budding
Gives
Tinker
Vital
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We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.
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Class
Minutes
Recess
School
Sure
Getting
Every Day
Day Every Day Must
Day Every Day School
Outside
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This summer, we need to let our kids go play and we need to stop worrying about whether or not it's going to ruin their chances of getting into college.
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Summer
Chances
Ruin
Worrying
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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 proceed.
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Obvious
Proceed
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The national nonprofit I founded, 'KaBOOM!,' is on a mission to save play for America's children, and has long been championing the cause in high-need communities.
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Championing
Communities
Mission
Nonprofit
Save
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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.
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Crucial
Elementary School
Organization
Time And Space
Center
Elementary
Provide
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As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools?
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Vacation
Debate
Important
Important Questions
School
Summer
Year Round
Questions
Back
Between
Bring
Nation
Over
Namely
The Most Important
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Play exercises both your physical and creative muscles. It helps you move around, solve problems, challenge yourself, and think in new ways. Not to mention that it's just plain fun.
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Muscles
New Ways
Yourself Your Fun
Exercises
Helps
Mention
Plain
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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 an emphasis on prevention versus intervention.
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Emphasis
Obesity
Prevention
Versus
Rise
Ages
Efforts
Modify
Rates
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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 that provides ample time and space to play.
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Access
Distance
Early Childhood
Time And Space
Ample
Park
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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 complex challenges and problems.
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Prepared
Complex
Future Time Today
Dire
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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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Currently
Best Thinking People
Boxed
Playground
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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 society that cares about children and the need for play.
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Organization
Cares
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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, but more importantly, where they are not.
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Data
Engaging
Identify
Importantly
Located
Map
Nationwide
User
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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 a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
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Busy
Math
Recess
Summer
Fraction
Schools
Slashing
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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.
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Activity
Engaging
Failing
Obese
Overweight
Academically
Criminal
Falling
Integrate
Socially
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If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
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Proven
Smarter
Test Scores
Academics
Scores
Test
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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.
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Healthy
Lifetime
Needed
Nutrition
Providing
Setting
Versus
Young Children
Habits
Opportunities
Proper
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Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.
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Doors
Low Income
Recreation
Summer
Swimming
Youth
Centers
Facilities
Programs
Pools
Shutting
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Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
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Fewer
Obsession
Organized
Parks
Streets
Communities
Hurting
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Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
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Budgets
Drafting
Radar
Responding
Designing
List
Neighborhoods
Schools
Slip
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Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.
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Childhood
Luxury
Opinion
Change Best Work
Absolute
Absolute Necessity
Natural Resource
Resource
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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 jungle gym to a height that would only interest a toddler is doing our children a grave disservice.
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Accidents
Disservice
Gym
Height
Jungle
Toddler
Unfortunate
Grave
Slide
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In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
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Imagination
Curiosity
Failing
Frenzy
Inspire
Lawsuit
Mania
Paranoia
Parental
Testing
Denying
Discover
Explore
Opportunities
Tinker
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During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.
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Bruised
Celebrate
Elbows
Lines
Safety
Slides
Playground
Skinned
So-Called
Towering
Zip
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'Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community.
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Offering
Online
Our Community
Your Dreams
Brought
Designed
Project
Instructions
Planner
Playground
Resource
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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. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
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Gym
Neighborhood
Soccer
Bodies
Onto
Playground
Toddlers
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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.
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Friends
Conquer
Insects
Lazy
Lingering
Long
New Friends
Possibility
Practice
Responsibility
Strokes
Summer
Swimming
Free
Anticipated
Days
Master
Explore
Hunt
Rife
Stretch
Trees
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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.
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Achievement
Activity
Adhd
Attention
Behavior
Classroom
Cognitive
Creative
Decline
Development
Linked
Physical Activity
School
Social
Test Scores
Closely
Help
Increased
Meanwhile
Physical
Problems
Scores
Stunted
Test
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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.
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Running
Building
Cities
Homework
Periods
Problem
Recess
Safety
Shrinking
Soccer
Tag
Only
Attack
Part
Nation
Concerns
Without
Even
Increasing
Schools
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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.
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Budget Cuts
Camps
Decline
Demand
Parks
Risen
Summer
Swimming
Budget
Cuts
Programs
Outdoor
Pools
Send
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I was raised in a group home for 14 years, so I was a beneficiary of philanthropy. I didn't have a family. The nameless, faceless strangers were my family. They gave me an education, put food on the table and clothes on my back. I am who I am because of that formative experience. Now I am paying it forward.
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Faceless
Philanthropy
Formative
Paying
Strangers
Table
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We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits.
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Bumps
Harm
Hurt
Instinct
Lessons
Valuable
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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.
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Disability
Entrepreneur
Focus
Football
Football Team
Growing Up
High School
Learning Disability
Odds
Persistence
Proven
School
Skills
Social
Team
Boot
Side
Career
High
Group
Joined
Learned
Value
Vital
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Sendak's 1963 classic 'Where The Wild Things Are' has long been a favorite of mine because of the creative imagery, fantastic adventures and, most of all, because of how this timeless story shows us that children need to be free to roam, explore and invent in order to understand their place in the world that surrounds them.
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Classic
Imagery
Timeless
Adventures
Wild
Explore
Invent
Roam
Surrounds
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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.
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Classroom
Frivolous
Multiple
Optional
Diametrically
Embracing
Increasingly
Measured
Opposed
Pencil
Via
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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.
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Sports
Bubbles
Failing
Games
Hours
Mark
Organized
Pioneers
Screens
Tests
Today
Rules
Artists
Cultivate
Entrepreneurs
Follow
Front
Generation
Highly
Instead
Raising
Sit
Standardized
Sterile
Structured
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