why we play about Richard Cullom

About the Author

Athletes raise athletes. My father played football back in the semi-dark ages. I swam competitively for ten years. I tried football when I was in junior high, but my body just wasn't quite right for the game. Too many things kept breaking! My wife competed in figure skating. She now plays tennis a couple of times a week. All three of my children now play on travel soccer teams (which makes every soccer season extremely busy). When I'm not injured and feeling quite full of myself I play indoor soccer. To break up the soccer, soccer, soccer in our lives, I also play tennis. In season, we can have 10 practices and 7 competitive matches in the family per week.

When I'm not on my way to or at the soccer fields (or the tennis courts), I earn a living as a software development manager. As a technologist, you will find hints of my engineering background and my years as a software consultant and technology manager just below the surface in all of the Why We Play writings. I see the results of our educational system every day. In essence, I see the finished parenting product - the working adults. I live at the crossroads - I have several work-in-progress models at home and I manage several completed models eight to ten hours a day. Over the years I have witnessed the good and the bad. I know what it takes to be successful. I know what habits my children take to work every day. The only remaining question is how to instill these core beliefs in my children in the limited amount of time I have with them?

Teaching in Sports.

A Journey in Soccer.

Writing the book Why We Play.

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