Table 4.

Turn off the TV

“… They have to go and choose something else to do. I think that’s maybe the route we go with preschoolers, not making them active but making them do something else other than TV. Then when they are school age, they won’t be choosing the TV all day and they won’t want to watch TV all day because they’ll know there’s other things to do” “I think it would be nice to have a space for playing where there was no TV because most of us have our TV in the rec room which is also the kids playroom … it would be nice to have enough space that you had a playroom somewhere else where there was no television because it would be a lot less tempting.” “… the less the TV, the more active” “I know at our house, throwing on a CD, our son has got a hold of an old Billy Ocean CD, it’s the greatest hits from who knows when. He’ll go down there and put it in and start dancing and jumping all over the place. You know, it’s as simple as that. It doesn’t have to be the total you know, commit to a sports activity and have to try to get there at this time and have to do all that stuff”