ABSTRACT
Leisure education can assist parents to develop the tools needed to facilitate positive change, including assessing and better understanding their children's leisure interests. This chapter explores parents' experiences of a leisure education process conducted as part of an intervention programme targeting parents of obese children. The leisure education process helped parents realise they needed to pay more attention to both their own and their child's leisure. Through parents' described experiences, the chapter highlights the need for and value of engaging families struggling with childhood obesity in leisure education. The guided leisure education process provided parents with the opportunity to explore, discover, and reflect on various, yet specific, aspects of their child's leisure behaviour. Leisure education involves helping individuals explore leisure behaviour within the context of their lives and families. Existing leisure education literature has stressed the need for leisure education in the case of special groups, including youth, individuals with a wide range of disabilities, and older adults.
