A Study On The Current Status Of Parent-child Sports Activities In Primary Schools In Chengdu

Weekend parent-child sports activities are an important form of extracurricular physical exercise as an extension of school physical education. To carry out the weekend parent-child activities is of great significance for it can improve the health of family members, release their pressure from study and work, and enhance the national physical fitness. Additionally, it contributes to the reinforcement of family affection, communication between parents and children, harmonious family relation as well as family cohesion. Moreover, it also plays an important role in the development of national fitness program and lifelong physical culture of China. This paper mainly adopts documentation, questionnaire survey, logical analysis and mathematical statistics to investigate the weekend parent-child sports activities in Chengdu, including basic condition, time, frequency, place, content and form, value, motivation etc. The results are as follows:(1) The weekend life for pupils in main urban area in Chengdu is not very healthy in term of content and there are some problems indeed. The investigation shows most students spend time in watching TV and playing games to which parents should pay special attention. The contact between students and television as well as network should be cut down while time should be arranged in a reasonable way.(2) Most of pupils in the main area of Chengdu have positive attitude toward sports activities which shows that the weekend parent-child activities in Chengdu have a limitless prospect.(3) Pupils in Chengdu always have weekend parent-child sports activities with neighbor kids, parents, classmates, and siblings. Survey result reveals that 60% of pupils are willing to take physical exercise with their parents.(4) The pupils in Chengdu have strong desire for participation in sports activities, but the total participation is not very high, and also there is no regular physical activity and exercise.(5) The internal motivation of participating in the weekend parent-child sports activities is enhancement of physical fitness and health, entertainment, weight loss, body shaping, improvement on affection and so on. The external motivation is the impact from parent mostly.(6) When choosing weekend parent-child sports activities, people prefer those simple and practicable which have few requirements on site and accord with the consumption level of the public.(7) The investigation shows significantly positive correlation between the parents’ education level, occupation, economic conditions, their understanding of the value of physical fitness and the development of weekend parent-child sports activities.Against these problems, corresponding countermeasures were proposed in the present paper including: the transition and renewal of parents’ thought, the cooperation of school physical education, the implementation of family physical homework, enhancing the propaganda of its content and value, increasing the construction and investment of the public sports facilities, formation of parents’ habits of sports and behavior, family-family joint mechanism, joint cultivation of parents and children’s interest towards physical education led by family committee.