Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Children’s Independent Mobility and Physical Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study with Families
Originally published 2021-04-23 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/ijerph18094481 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
When ordinary routines changed, which independent trips became easier or harder for my child?
This article examines how families renegotiated independent travel and activity under pandemic restrictions. Here independence concerns permission to take an actual journey or play without direct supervision, within the conditions of a particular place.
Who was studied?
Twenty-one family interviews with children and caregivers in British Columbia.
Age / stage: Ages 7–12
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how families renegotiated independent travel and activity under pandemic restrictions?
- Who supplied the account, and where did participants describe a different experience from one another?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is twenty-one family interviews with children and caregivers in British Columbia.
Keep the limits in view
Interviews captured a particular period of public-health restrictions in British Columbia. Their themes do not measure usual travel freedoms elsewhere.
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Chelsea A. Pelletier; Katie Cornish; Caroline Sanders (2021). Children’s Independent Mobility and Physical Activity during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study with Families International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18094481
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