![]() If it keeps you sane and gives you a break and makes you motivated and fills you with joy then that’s your thing. The thousands of parents who act as carers who can’t exercise, the thousands of parents who HAVE to work ridiculous hours to pay the bills who can’t exercise.įor those mums I know who have the privilege of being able to exercise – good for you – if it works for you then go for it. I’m not bothered by what a ‘Fitmum’ has to say about my parenting.īecause I feel like I need to defend the hundreds of thousands of single parents out there who can’t exercise. I’m bothered by the declining state of Australia’s education. ![]() I’m bothered by my oldest friend who has ovarian cancer. I’m bothered by my son being bullied at school. But I am not particularly bothered by that. I don’t need to lose weight because my clothes fit me okay. I sometimes think I might go back to running in four years or so – when my daughter starts school. I’m trying my best to make them healthy, but I’m no super-Mum. I choose to spend the time I have with my children. Yes, there are gyms and crèches and mummy exercise groups and exercise DVDs and grandparents. ![]() Who’s going to answer the call of, “Mama I want a drink of water”? I can’t just take off to the gym after bedtime. We play and we ride bikes and we go swimming.īut how am I going to get up and go for a run? I can’t leave a six-year old in charge of a four-year old and a two-year old. We don’t sit on the couch playing Xbox and eating cream buns. My sons do soccer, and tennis and swimming and martial arts and basketball. I walk my oldest child to school every day. Julius, you are right – no one is TELLING us to work fourteen hours a day– we CHOSE a hell of a lot more than fourteen hours when we chose to have children.Īnd for those of us, like me who now bring up our children in a one adult household, exercise isn’t even a privilege – it’s practically an impossibility.īefore you start: that’s not an excuse. My working day starts at 3.30am – my ‘mothering day’ starts around 6am it doesn’t really have a clock out. Twenty–four hours of caring and loving and cooking and cleaning and driving and nagging and laughing and yelling and cuddling and helping. If you’re too lazy to do that, why not cut back some hours. Things heated up when Sharny’s husband, Julius weighed into the debate and wrote on his blog: It’s very easy for you Sharny, whose entire life and career is in runners and running around working.” SK: “Why is it unrealistic to teach your kids to be healthy?”ĬS: “I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about how possible it is. ![]() SK: “I think that not fitting in exercise and not being active with your kids and trying to teach them a healthy lifestyle is definitely not the right way to go, yeah.”ĬS: “What if I were to say to you that that is completely unrealistic and offensive and untrue?” Sharny Kieser: “Um … Well yeah you have been, but I have seen you change from being lazy to getting into exercise as well, so I’ve seen you change that mindset.”ĬS: “So you think raising three children and working sometimes 14 hours a day is lazy?” Chrissie Swan: “I am fat and you definitely hit a nerve with me because … You know me, would you say that I am lazy? ![]()
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