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Parents, if you want your children to get more exercise, you would be wise to get out of their way.
In a new study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers attempted to observe how the children play in the parks. Their main purpose was to help Park designers to create public spaces that would be better encourage children to run and exercise. But along the way, we found something: the biggest barrier to physical activity of children has less to do with the design of the park itself and more to do with the presence of hover of a parent.
Children whose parents hung around their follow-up closely only about half were likely to engage in high levels of physical activity as the children whose parents gave more freedom, the researchers found.
"It's a catch-22 for the parents of today situation, unfortunately." "Many parents are worried about the safety of their children, so that they tend to float," said the co-author of the study Dr. Jason Bocarro, Associate Professor of tourism management at North Carolina State University, in a statement, the recreation and parks.
The problem is that parents most "helicopter" - persistent anxiously on the jungle gym or admonitions their child, not too high!, on the swings - less their children are likely to run and play with their friends.
Ward leads also activity that the concerns of parents about safety home watching television, or the place of the video games. For a country in which the child obesity has reached epidemic proportions, which is not a good thing.
For the new study, the researchers spent eight weeks in the summer 2007 collection of data on 2 712 children by observing play in 20 parks selected randomly around Durham, N.C. In General, researchers have found children younger (5 years or less) are more active than older and boys overall were more active than girls.
Researchers have seen higher levels of activity in the parks to play courts such as basketball and tennis courts, even if it was boys who were more likely to be with them; girls, on the other hand, generally found in playgrounds.
The positive influence more powerful when it comes to vigorous, researchers found, was the presence of other energetic children. "Other active children in the area of the Park increases the chances of the levels more high physical activity 3.67 times," wrote the authors.
And nothing seems to put the brakes on a kid Frolic as a ubiquitous parent (and, to a lesser extent, the two adult guardians as a teacher or a coach). No one is suggesting that parents let their children run off to the park only, of course. But the authors recommend that the Park designers keep concerned parents in mind.
"If children's play environments are designed for the whole family with comfortable seats and shaded to sit and observe children playing remote, parents may be less inclined to"helicopter"and hinder the spontaneous play," said co-author Robin Moore, Professor of landscape architecture and Director of the N.C. State natural learning Initiative.
Thus, the next time that you take your child to the Park, try to take a seat on the bench and let your child figure on his own things. It is O.K. If it struggles or even falls down. His faux pas can help prevent you from making your own.
Meredith Melnick is a journalist in time. Find him on Twitter at @ MeredithCM. You can also continue the discussion on the time Facebook page and Twitter time @.

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