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The bounce-back illusion: Why real postpartum bodies deserve the spotlight

Let’s begin with a familiar image. A woman, newly postpartum, stands in her living room. Her baby is nestled in a sling across her chest, and she’s attempting something between a squat and a stretch while simultaneously rescuing a plush giraffe from under the couch. She is not wearing Lululemon. She has not “bounced back.”…

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Children and Youth
Coaching

Coaching your own child – 5 tips for the parent-coach
June 12, 2024
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Sport New Zealand
Being a parent-coach presents a unique set of challenges. Coaching is all about relationships, but sometimes the relationship between a parent and child poses different demands to that of an athlete and their coach. Balancing both can be difficult; particularly...
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Children and Youth
Health and Wellbeing
School Sport

Exercise is medicine: Sport contributes to Canadian student well-being and chances of academic success 
April 10, 2024
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Linda Pagani
Only 8% of school age Canadian students meet the recommended daily goal of more than 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity. Youth mental health problems have doubled over the past 2 decades. As family life represents a primary vehicle for child...
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Children and Youth
Program Design and Evaluation
Quality Sport

Shifting the narrative: Empowering parents and fostering understanding of their roles in the youth sport system
March 18, 2024
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By Jean Côté, Mia KurtzFavero, Haley Hunter Smith, Stuart Wilson, and Alex Murata
Parents as promoters of positive youth sport experiences  One of the key social agents within the youth sport environment is the parent. They are commonly called upon to facilitate critical components of youth sport participation, such as providing material (registration...
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Children and Youth
COVID-19
Recreation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

ParkSeek: Linking young Canadians to parks and recreational resources using geo-targeted messaging in a smartphone application
January 1, 2024
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Alexander Wray
Introduction and Context  The ParkSeek study aimed to identify barriers to youth (aged 13-25) engagement with parks and recreational resources via a novel geographic ecological momentary assessment (GEMA). However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, substantial challenges were encountered in...
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Children and Youth
Physical and Health Education
School Sport

Schools play a key role in supporting youth physical activity
October 4, 2023
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Jeff Crane
For over a decade now, Canadian children and youth have received an overall physical activity grade of ‘D’ or worse according to the ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity (ParticipACTION, 2022). Only 28% of children and youth currently meet the...
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Children and Youth
Disability
Physical and Health Education
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Facilitating physical activity and physical education participation in autistic children and youth
October 2, 2023
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Mathieu Michaud
Introduction and context  Participation in physical activity (PA) and physical education (PE) is very important for all children and youth (C&Y) because it helps with physical, social, affective, and cognitive development (Bailey, 2006). Autistic C&Y especially gain from PA and...
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Children and Youth
Long-Term Development
Physical Literacy
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Influence of structural and psychosocial factors on the level of physical activity of preschoolers attending daycare
September 4, 2023
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Camille Gagné
Project Summary  Objectives  Theoretical framework: Theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen 1991) and the Cohen et al. structural model (2000).   Research Methods  Population: Children aged three to five attending a child care facility, run by the government of Quebec, in the...
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Children and Youth
Community Sport
Knowledge Mobilization
Life Skills
Physical Health
Quality Sport
Sport Participation
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Rural children and their communities leading the way toward the enhancement of sports and recreation
July 31, 2023
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View the summary of this research here. The purpose of the study was to engage rural preadolescent children in the development of research questions that are relevant and meaningful to exploring their participation and commitment to sport and other recreational...
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Athlete Development
Children and Youth
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Parenting styles and practices: Promoting exemplary parenting in youth sport
July 3, 2023
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Nick Holt
Project summary  Our research question was: How do exemplary youth sport parents support their daughters in competitive team sport? To answer this question, we interviewed 8 coaches and asked them to discuss the best parents they had ever worked with....
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Children and Youth
Coaching
Life Skills
Program Design and Evaluation
School Sport
Sport Participation Research Initiative

Development and Evaluation of the Coaching for Life Skills Training Program for High School Coaches
June 26, 2023
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Martin Camiré
Project summary  The research project occurred in two sequential phases. In the phase one study, the purpose was to develop the Coaching for Life Skills training program and evaluate its pilot implementation. This first study was qualitative in nature and...
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