Motivating Children to Be Active: Across 115 Studies, Parental Support (r 0.38) Beat Parental Example (r 0.16), and Family Programmes Raised Activity by SMD 0.41
Sep 25
4 min read
The standard advice to parents is to set a good example: be active yourself and your children will follow. It sounds right and it is only partly true. Across more than a hundred studies, what parents do for a child's activity turns out to matter roughly twice as much as what parents do in front of them, and the trials that put families to work show how much can actually change.
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