Spain's Early Childhood Education Neglects Physical Activity Despite Scientific Evidence

Children are experiencing excessive sedentary time with documented negative impacts on motor development, mental health, and long-term obesity risk.

In the formative years when bodies and minds are most receptive to shaping, Spanish children are largely sitting still. Víctor Arufe, a researcher at the University of A Coruña, has spent years documenting the chasm between what science knows about movement in early childhood and what schools and families actually provide — a gap so wide it amounts, he argues, to a collective failure of care. The habits children form between birth and age six tend to follow them for life, making this not merely a question of curriculum, but of the kind of adults — and the kind of society — we are quietly choos

Spain's Early Childhood Education Neglects Physical Activity Despite Scientific Evidence

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