Parents with no time

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  • Nicolee_2014
    Nicolee_2014 Posts: 1,572 Member
    I don't have anymore suggestions or input but I'd just like to say I hope find a happy medium & that you get that exercise in & that your little boy has a healthy happy Mommy :):flowerforyou:
  • Kelly_1981
    Kelly_1981 Posts: 472 Member
    Get your husband to help you. Seriously, you're not doing your son a favor by setting such an example... There's no reason why you should take care of everything.

    YES I AGREE!!!! Its Both of your son tell him to pull his weight!
  • leomom72
    leomom72 Posts: 1,797 Member
    bump
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    Get yourself out and worry about exercise when your son is older. I don't have time to exercise during the week as I have a 4 year old who isn't in school yet and am doing a masters degree. I am already out of the house until 5 some nights, I am not taking more time away from my children (even if I had someone to take them, which I don't) to exercise. I just go to evening classes I can take them along to, and aerobics in the hall next to my 4 year old's nursery so he can watch me through the door.
  • Fairysoul
    Fairysoul Posts: 1,361 Member
    Could you play a dance game or zumba on the wii with your son? I play with my 4 year old and we have a blast plus a workout!
  • Jessica0982
    Jessica0982 Posts: 209 Member
    Could you play a dance game or zumba on the wii with your son? I play with my 4 year old and we have a blast plus a workout!

    I think I'm probably the only person on the planet that doesn't own a Wii. LOL.

    My son is a total jock. He loves football. We play often out in the yard but it's not all that much movement for me. He loves basketball and sometimes we shoot around. And baseball, he had me hitting balls and he'd run and chase them.

    But those are weekend only things. It's too dark for us to do much of anything when we get home from school/work.
  • Nikki582
    Nikki582 Posts: 561 Member
    I'm a busy mum as well, but I guess the difference is my husband does help out if I ask him to (but I have to ask, he doesn't have the initiative to do it on his own)

    But to get my workout in I get up an hour before anyone else is awake and I go to my 24-hour gym, do my stuff, come home, have a shower - my two kids wake up, I get them dressed and ready for their day, scoff some breakfast, shake my husband awake, drop the kids at daycare, (7.30) go to work, get home around 5/5.30 (picking up the kids on the way home) and make dinner, shuttle the kids into the shower and then bed, then I do my school work (online diploma course)

    Twice a week I go out to gym classes when the kids are awake - on a Tuesday it's at 6pm, so I make dinner ready for when my husband walks in the door (5.45) and scoot out, come back and the kids are juuust about to go to bed, then on Saturday mornings I just shake husband awake when I leave (7) and when I come back it's hit and miss if I have to feed them breakfast.

    I've had to make time for myself and my workouts, I've had to put me first sometimes - and putting me first sometimes doesn't put anyone else out, it doesn't take time away from my kids because I set an alarm to get up before them. I have membership to a 24 hour gym so it doesn't matter if I haven't done my workout before the start of my day - I can put the kids to bed and go there at 9 instead.. the kids aren't missing out - my husband, who's a lovely supportive guy, isn't feeling like I'm always lumping the kids on him to go out and I'm not allowed to make ANY excuses. Because this is about me, not about anyone else.

    If you want stuff for around the house look up bodyweight exercises, you can write up your own circuit to do inside or outside, it's not that difficult. Go to a park and work out how you can do stuff on the playground while your son plays. If you have an iDevice get the Nike Training Club (FREE) app, it's awesome. You CAN do it, you just need to do it.
  • jnthwaite
    jnthwaite Posts: 111
    All of these suggestions have been great. I'm a single Mum and a high school teacher, so I'm up early as, come home late, and try to get Missy in bed at a reasonable hour. I really like the suggestions of the 24 hour gym while Missy is in daycare after work perhaps. I've also got things I can play with her with in the back yard. She loves doing exercises. It's me that's beat all the time. What great ideas. Thanks MFP community of awesome!
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