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. My sons do soccer, and tennis and swimming and martial arts and basketball.Īm I lazy because I don’t go the gym four times a week? 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.
How nice for some who have the luxury.īecause I, and millions of other mothers like me don’t have a choice – and we certainly don’t work fourteen hours a day.
How lucky they must be that they can choose to cut back their hours. “Choice” is an interesting word here because what Sharny and Julius have failed to acknowledge is that exercise is a choice – a choice for the privileged. “Fitmum” Sharny Kieser caused a media storm when she launched an attack on “lazy” mums. 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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