Inclusion Criteria:  parents of children aged 3 to 11 presneting for a new well child visit or for a sport medicin visit or presenting for a childhood obesity visit at the AUSL Reggio Emilia clinics, including family pediatricians clinics.  Exclusion Criteria:  Families resident outside the Province of Reggio Emilia Parents with no comprehension of the Italian language  Children inside a program for obesity cure or prevention. The program are:  the GET program (a program coordinated by the hospital pediatric unit in which obese children follow a group intervention), the BMInforma program (in which overweight girls from 5 to 7 years old follow a counselling proposed by the family paediatrician), the second level medical clinic in which obese children with pathologic condition are cured Children with severe obesity previously diagnosed