Table 1.

‘You have to keep them active’ Interview Quotes

Quote Number	Respondent	Child’s Weight Status	Quote
1	Cousin of 6-year-old Girl B	Normal Weight	We have a small playground right across the street from us. It just has like a sliding board and maybe jungle gyms. So my son will take her over there for a little while. And my niece moved with me, she’ll take her over there. Or they’ll bring another child, like another relative’s child over there so she’ll have somebody to play with…
2	Grandmother of 11-year-old Boy C	Obese	Then they have a park a little further, all the way over there, and I’ll take them over there, let them go for it. I just tell them to run ‘I’ll beat you to the playground.’ And we’ll be just running…
3	Grandmother of 11-year-old Boy A	Overweight	Always kept them busy exercising…. Because I don’t know where they get all their energy. And another reason I try to keep them [busy]—because I’m trying to keep—I don’t want them—I pray—when they get older, I can’t do nothing. I pray now that they don’t be in the street. I want them to know what’s going on out there, but I don’t want them to be the one just hanging out there with them.
4	Uncle of 10-year-old Boy E	Obese	We do some push-ups, some sit ups. Jumping jacks and jump rope and stuff like that. Yeah, I try to get them involved in stuff like that… I [try] to explain to him more the benefits of him getting involved more instead of watching the TV all day and stuff like that. But I guess he’s a kid. He don’t really understand the importance of doing that.
5	Mother of 10-year-old Boy E	Obese	See things are changing so much now. And when we was growing up, we had a roller derby rink right there where these houses are at now. And it had a basketball court that extended off of it. So if we didn’t really have anything to do within the vicinity of our neighborhood, we’d go there and we’d play. We made our big wheels and play the race in ring. We did it all. And now things are so limited for the children, now they really don’t have anywhere to go or where you feel comfortable of them going to get a lot that excess out.
6	Aunt of 11-year-old Girl C	Obese	We weren’t allowed in programs like karate and dance…it wasn’t allowed…I mean we couldn’t even do physical activity at school. Like you couldn’t be on a basketball team or cheerleading or any—we couldn’t do any of that… [our parents] didn’t believe in it.
7	Mother of 11-year-old Girl C	Obese	And I think it was probably more—older people back then was more—well, I think when they close-minded like that—some type of protection thing. If you don’t make this, you ain’t got to worry about crying.
8	Mother of 11-year-old Boy B	Overweight	Well, actually, they’re kids so everything they do is physical. They do everything. They run, they jump, they play.
9	Mother of 6-year-old Girl B	Normal Weight	Because some kids [need you to] lead more by example. Some you can talk to. I can talk, I can show her stuff, but by her being six, it’s not going to—once she sees [cartoons are on], that’s it, ‘What did you say?’