Abstract: Family environment is important for children’s growth and parents’ behavior has a certain influence on children’s behavior. The study is a questionnaire-based research about the situation of parental support of elementary students’ physical activities and the gender difference and the grade difference. The result shows that both father and mother actively company children to do physical activities and fathers’ modeling role in physical activity is stronger than mothers’. The higher the family socio-economic status, the more supportive of children’s physical activity parents are. Fathers provide more logistic support for sons and mothers for daughters. The higher children’s grade, parents’ companion tends to decrease. There is no significant gender or grade difference in parents’ modeling for elementary school students’ physical activity.

Key words: Elementary Students, Physical Activity, Parental Support, Gender Difference, Grade Difference