Using Feedback, Goal Setting, And Rewards By Kari Ek

activity and limiting sedentary behaviours are important weight control measures to avoid overweight and obesity, which are associated with an increased risk to cancers and other chronic disease”(p. 2638-2652). They set up a theory and used twenty parents and their children to partake in the experiment. The experiment showed pros and cons the parents faced while trying to get the child to have less screen time and more physical activity. If the problem is not dealt with, the child’s possibilities of getting these other health issues are greater. Like father like son or like mother like daughter either way children can be just like their parents. Is it possible that obesity may be hereditary? Some people think obesity is an inherited trait

Children need more physical activity in their lives and sometimes they just need a little encouragement to motivate them to do it. This can be heard in the report, “Promoting Physical Activity Among School-Age Children Using Feedback, Goal Setting, and Rewards” by Kari E. Ek. Ek discusses, “At the end of each day, the parent showed the child the number of steps on the pedometer, and told the child that the goal has been reached and the reward was earned or the goal was not reached”(Vol. 16, Issue 1). If childhood obesity is not dealt with it is only going to increase. Children work well with a reward system, and by rewarding them with what they want in exchange for physical activity, it is a win, win

When children are dismissed from school, they are tired and do not want to do much of anything. However, children need more physical activity in their lives set aside some time at home for them to play. Another way to put physical activity back into their lives is by giving them more time in P.E. By adding time to the day to exercise, the child will start a routine and continue it. Children need at least one hour of physical activity for a minimum of three days a week. If obesity in children is not solved, then it is more likely to transfer over into adulthood and other health issues will arise. Solving childhood obesity with physical activity is the best way because it is cheap and puts the child in the mindset of hard work pays off.

Physical activity will pay off if the child sticks to it, and it can be done at school or the local YMCA. Miltenberger, K., Raymond, G., Valbueno, D., (2015). “Promoting Physical Activity Among School-age Children Using Feedback, Goal Setting, and Rewards”, evaluated the daily steps taken by obese and normal weight 6-to-12 year old boys and girls and concluded that boys need 15,000 steps and girls need 12,000 steps each day to maintain a healthy weight (Vol. 16, 1). However, this may vary due to every child being different so discuss the child’s weight with the families’