Table 6.

Facilities/other programme suggestions/promotion of programmes and resources

Facilities “Like a slide set because they can be brought indoors. Balls to kick around. A great big gym-sized room basically, just run and kick balls” “Just indoor places to go. I don’t usually have trouble thinking of things to do in the summer because you want to be out, just for your own well-being’ What better place to run around. I mean the school is open, that would be awesome” “So I could bring cheese and crackers, I didn’t have to go buy the fries at the counter” “Yes, and the cleanliness is huge”

Other programme suggestions – advertising “This would be nasty but showing a few examples, like one family doing nothing and showing the child five or ten years later obese, with diabetes, going to the doctor, blah-blah-blah and then showing the other child, the parents having fun with the kid growing up and then ten years later see where they’re at, sort of thing”. “I think my point is I would hate to see advertising motivating as a guilt thing. I think I would rather see it as education, perhaps if we could educate parents more, then maybe we might see a change. But if you guilt me, forget it. I’ll walk out the door and I’ll say I don’t need this”

Promotion of programmes and resources “I know that one thing that I like and that I’m finding with groups that I’m doing is that parents also want to know [hear]: We know you’re doing the best you can and here’s some tips to do that much better. I think I heard somebody say you don’t want to put them on the defensive. I know I get that way … so the messages need to be softened. It’s the hardest job” “I think to promote it as being good for the kids. Like it’s a healthy, good thing to do for kids” “But you go to see the doctor all the time, the kids have to see a doctor no matter what, at some point. Doctor’s offices have pamphlets there, like here read this, this is what’s available for your child”