Nature

Physical fitness of primary school children differs depending on their timing of school enrollment

Previous research has shown that children who were enrolled to school according to the legal key date (i.e., keyage children, between eight and nine years in third grade) exhibited a linear physical ...
Nature

The predictive relationship between parents’ perceptions of physical activity and children’s physical literacy

Grounded in existentialism and phenomenology, physical literacy refers to an integrated state of being physically cultured to value and take responsibility to engage in lifelong physical activity 1,2.
The Conversation

Climate change is a new hurdle for children’s physical activity levels in Canada

The ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, the most comprehensive assessment of children’s physical activity in Canada, recently gave the country a D+ in overall ...