21 ways to burn over 6,000 kilojoules

Feel like you’ve achieved next to nothing because you didn’t quite get in any exercise today? Turns out, just regular everyday mum activities burn a massive amount of kilojoules. Just how many you ask?

How to win at parenting (and burn over 6,000 kilojoules in the process)

From unloading the car to reading a bedtime story, here are 21 activities that can burn a staggering 6560 kilojoules*. And you probably do each and every one of them at least once a day.

1. Attempting to brush, comb and plait your daughter’s crazy hair: 200 kJ
2. Walking with your child in the pushchair: 300 kJ
3. Carrying child on your walk because she refuses to sit in the pushchair: 420 kJ
4. Chasing your naked toddler around the living room (while trying to coax him to put on some clothes) for a half an hour: 350 kJ
5. Playing with the kids at the beach or park: 600 kJ
6. Picking up baby junk off the floor (for the trillionth time): 330 kJ
7. Putting away groceries: 150 kJ
8. Chopping veggies (and then binning them because your kids won’t eat them unless they are grated and hidden in sauce): 150 kJ
9. Having a dance party in the living room for ten minutes: 265 kJ
10. Vacuuming up leftover food the kids have decided they don’t want to eat and would rather throw on the floor: 330 kJ
11. Breastfeeding: 2000 kJ
12. Unloading two sleeping children from the car and transferring to their beds: 120 kJ
13. Playing Snakes and Ladders (and purposely losing): 90 kJ
14. Pouring a wine (yes, this counts as exercise, okay): 10 kJ
15. Mopping up spilled juice: 510 kJ
16. Cleaning sticky fingerprints off the windows: 190 kJ 
17. Doing a load of washing: 190 kJ
18. Reading your children a bedtime story for 20 minutes: 80 kJ
19. Giving your kids 20 minutes of kisses and cuddles: 100 kJ
20. Brushing your child’s teeth (and attempting to keep him from squirming away): 45 kJ
21. Carrying a dead weight child to and from her bed 15 times each night because she refuses to sleep in her own damned room: 130 kJ

So there you go. 21 activities. 6560 kilojoules.

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