What is the Active Start stage for young children?

Q: What is the Active Start stage for young children?

Active Start is for males and females from birth to approximately six years of age. It is where the physical literacy journey begins. Key points from the framework: Make activity fun and part of the child's daily routine. Focus on developing locomotor, object manipulation and balance skills on land, water, ice/snow and in the air, in a variety of movements. Meet the 24-hour movement guidelines for young children of being active for 180 minutes a day. The framework describes Active Start as being about mastering basic human movements and developing habits of physical activity. Source: Sport for Life, Long-Term Development in Sport and Physical Activity 3.0 (2019): https://sportforlife.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Long-Term-Development-in-Sport-and-Physical-Activity-3.0.pdf

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Active Start is for males and females from birth to approximately six years of age. It is where the physical literacy journey begins.

Key points from the framework:

Make activity fun and part of the child's daily routine.
Focus on developing locomotor, object manipulation and balance skills on land, water, ice/snow and in the air, in a variety of movements.
Meet the 24-hour movement guidelines for young children of being active for 180 minutes a day.

The framework describes Active Start as being about mastering basic human movements and developing habits of physical activity.

Source: Sport for Life, Long-Term Development in Sport and Physical Activity 3.0 (2019): https://sportforlife.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Long-Term-Development-in-Sport-and-Physical-Activity-3.0.pdf