The Intersection of ‘Outside’ Practices and Children’s Sedentary Behavior at Home

Health concerns about sedentary behavior have brought attention to children’s home lives, including research on the factors influencing at home. These studies highlight importance of factors, namely media-rich environment and parental influences. This paper draws concept ‘porosity home’ practice theory study how home-based is affected by beyond Based observational interview data with children their families conducted in Gothenburg, Sweden, four main practices outside are identified as affecting behaviors – digitalization school, organized activities, family holidays, socialization peers. All these embedded wider discourses suggesting that complex requires rethinking current narrow focus factors.