Key findings and implications for how parents can support their child’s physical activity
| Finding | Implication |
| Mothers primarily support child physical activity during the week | Develop advice for mothers to help them facilitate their child’s physical activity during busy weekdays (eg, identifying times in the day for promoting activity and ideas for active games) |
| Engaging fathers to be involved in supporting child physical activity is important | Encourage fathers to see the important role they can play in supporting their child’s activity |
| Children, possibly more so boys, are more active if both parents share the role of supporting child physical activity | Develop family physical activity plans (eg, who can support when) to encourage both parents to take an active role in supporting their child’s physical activity |
| Parents can use physical activity time to bond over shared interests or engage in quality one-to-one time with children | Encourage parents to value physical activity time as a way to share interests and bond with children (eg, promote physical activity as quality family time) |
| Some parents, possibly more so mothers, struggle for confidence when it comes to supporting child physical activity | Develop parental skills and confidence in supporting and facilitating child activity and encourage parents to model the behaviours that they wish their child to adopt |