“…Available evidence suggests that preschool children in South Africa are highly active (Draper et al, ; Jones, Hendricks, & Draper, ), and have adequate gross motor skills (Draper, Achmat, Forbes, & Lambert, ; Draper et al, ). These studies, mostly from low‐income settings, have reported that South African preschoolers are not only meeting the guidelines for physical activity (Okely et al, ; Tremblay et al, ), but are exceeding them – with some children accumulating more than 400 min of total physical activity and over 100 min of MVPA per day. This is a very different context to those from which the majority of physical‐cognitive findings are derived, in which habitual physical activity levels are substantially lower (Beets, Bornstein, Dowda, & Pate, ; Hinkley, Salmon, Okely, Crawford, & Hesketh, ; Tucker, ).…”