Kids in daycare are more sedentary than you’d think. These educators aim to get preschoolers moving – CBC
3- and 4-year-olds sedentary for 43 minutes per hour at child care, researchers find
Jan 25, 2025
Most days, Lisa Cloutier takes her preschool class outside: exploring the forest nearby or running around the east Toronto school where their daycare is located.
“Kids naturally are curious. They’re going to try to climb the bleachers and jump off the top,” said the longtime early childhood educator (ECE), who recalls scrambling over rocks and trees all day herself when growing up in Nova Scotia.
“I think we’re seeing a huge shift to going back to how it was when we were kids.”
The polar vortex that blasted Toronto this week put a wrench into those plans, with Cloutier and her co-workers forced to get creative with kids indoors. Still, she believes physical activity is vital, especially after she’s noticed more young people — including her own teens — increasingly gravitating to screens and sedentary behaviour since the pandemic.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sedentary-preschoolers-1.7438717
