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| For infants (0 - 1 year) physical activity, particularly supervised floor play in safe environments, should be encouraged from birth. | Infants should be encouraged to be physically active daily, particularly through floor-based play in safe environments. | Infants should interact with parents and/or caregivers in daily physical activities dedicated to promoting exploration. |
| Toddlers (1 - 3 years) and preschoolers (3 - 5 years) should be physically active for at least 3 hours every day, spread throughout the day. | Children capable of walking unaided should be physically active for at least 3 hours daily. | Toddlers should accumulate at least 30 minutes of structured and at least 60 minutes of unstructured physical activity every day. |
| Children younger than 2 years should not spend any time watching television or using other electronic media (DVDs, computer etc.). For children between 2 - 5 years these activities should be limited to less than one hour per day. | Infants and children should be discouraged from being sedentary. No sedentary behaviour should last for more than 1 hour (except sleep). | Pre-schoolers should accumulate at least 60 minutes of structured and at least 60 minutes, and up to several hours, of unstructured physical activity every day, and should not be sedentary for more than 60 minutes (unless asleep). |
| Source: | Source: | Source: National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Active Start Guidelines (as cited in |