How do you manage 2 kid dropoff at 2 differnet location?

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Anonymous wrote:DH drops off DS5 in the morning at daycare, and nanny comes to our home to take care of DD2. DS5 is going to elementary school this fall, and DD2 is going to daycare this fall. Nanny will not work for us anymore this fall.

Is it possible for DH to drop off DS5 & DD2 in the morning? DS5's school is 5 mins driving from our home & he will attend before care, and DD2's school is 15 mins driving from our home. They are on the same direction. How does it work for DH drops off 2 kids? He needs to walk 2 kids out at the first dropoff, and I wonder how difficult is that? Both kids are attached/clingy to me, so it will be more emotionally challenged for them to say goodbye to me. It is a lot easier for them to say goodbye to DH. Anyways, should I drop off 1 kid, and DH drop off 1 kid instead?

I will be responsible to pick up 2 kids at pickup, and I know I am capable to do that.

OP. I want to come along in another vehicle to their first few days of new school/daycare before I go to work. Is it good or bad idea? Will that cause more teary eyes? I know that DD2 is going to cry no matter what on first few weeks of daycare, and DS5 is a maybe.

This is a bad idea.

You sound dramatic which is why your kids have trouble separating. They will be fine. Do the drop off if you are worried.

[Anonymous]

You need to call the school and ask what the drop off process is handled. Just because you want to do it one way, doesn’t mean the school does it that way.
Depending on the school, you may literally have to drop the K kid at the curb and go. Our School allows parents to walk kid to class the first two days. After that they have to go on their own.
From sacc, a patrol kid comes and collects the Ks from sacc and walks them in a line down to the start of the k hallway and from there they go to the classroom on their own.

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I thought that is common that both parents drop of kids on first day of kindergarten or new daycare. I see so many photos that my friends take on their kiddo first days.

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Let your DH take care of this. He is an adult. You following in another car is freaking crazy, frankly, and will only put everyone in the picture on edge.

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Your DH can handle dropping off two kids. If he can't then there is a problem. So what if he has to walk two kids in. How can that be an issue?

You going and sitting in the car is ridiculous.

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In all fairness to Op, most parents do walk their kids into school on the first day of K. I know that I did. From what I recall, I actually had to park on the street and then walk DS 5 along with DS 3 to the school, walked him to his classroom, did a quick hug at the door and then took DS 3 back to the car. I was a SAHM so I just went back home with my 3 year old but I could just has easily taken my 3 year old anywhere else.

Some parents continue walking their kids in for the rest of the first week. Some transition over to the kiss and ride drop off line. It's no big deal. It's very quick compared to preschool drop offs.

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Wouldn't it be easier to just keep the nanny? Nix the daycare all together.

Why cant kid5 ride the bus? Is this a private school?

I'd start kid2 in the new daycare a month early to help with the transition and have a routine set in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH drops off DS5 in the morning at daycare, and nanny comes to our home to take care of DD2. DS5 is going to elementary school this fall, and DD2 is going to daycare this fall. Nanny will not work for us anymore this fall.

Is it possible for DH to drop off DS5 & DD2 in the morning? DS5's school is 5 mins driving from our home & he will attend before care, and DD2's school is 15 mins driving from our home. They are on the same direction. How does it work for DH drops off 2 kids? He needs to walk 2 kids out at the first dropoff, and I wonder how difficult is that? Both kids are attached/clingy to me, so it will be more emotionally challenged for them to say goodbye to me. It is a lot easier for them to say goodbye to DH. Anyways, should I drop off 1 kid, and DH drop off 1 kid instead?

I will be responsible to pick up 2 kids at pickup, and I know I am capable to do that.

People will probably freak out on me, but unless the walk into the building for before care is really long, you can hustle the 5 year old in the building quickly and leave the 2 year old in the car for the 60 seconds or less it will take. Or once your kid knows the way to before care, he can walk into the classroom on his own.

I really think this depends on the set up of the school and parking lot.

When I had daycare drop off, I did walk older child in for 30 seconds. The daycare had its own parking lot and the car was only a few feet from the front door.

I did not use SACC at our school but the SACC area was inside the school. It would take at least 5 min and parking wasn’t right in front. I would lose visual of my car. I could not leave a young child in car.

I would leave 5yo in car for a minute to drop off 2yo but not the other way around.

Yeah, I'm the PP - at our school you can drive right up in front of the door that leads to SACC and then it's maybe 25 feet to the SACC room. I can see my kid enter and either she waves to me or the SACC person does, so no need to get out of the car.

Our school requires that a parent brings the child to the door.

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I don't think both parents need to drop the kid off on the first day. We did on the first day of preschool and my kid was a wreck. I wish we'd just done one parent per child.

For K, I recommend the following schedule
Day 1 - one parent walks child in
Day 2 - kid takes the bus/parent meets the kid at school to walk to class just so kid knows how to take the bus. We did this once a week for the first three weeks to familiarize DC with the bus just in case (we did it one day a week on the way home, too)
Day 3 onward - take kid to SACC

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My DH drops our two kids off 4x/week and it's fine. Our eldest is in before care in elementary school and he leaves the younger one in the car because he can pull up into the loop, walk to the door and before care staff will take her right at the door. Then he drives the second to daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH drops off DS5 in the morning at daycare, and nanny comes to our home to take care of DD2. DS5 is going to elementary school this fall, and DD2 is going to daycare this fall. Nanny will not work for us anymore this fall.

Is it possible for DH to drop off DS5 & DD2 in the morning? DS5's school is 5 mins driving from our home & he will attend before care, and DD2's school is 15 mins driving from our home. They are on the same direction. How does it work for DH drops off 2 kids? He needs to walk 2 kids out at the first dropoff, and I wonder how difficult is that? Both kids are attached/clingy to me, so it will be more emotionally challenged for them to say goodbye to me. It is a lot easier for them to say goodbye to DH. Anyways, should I drop off 1 kid, and DH drop off 1 kid instead?

I will be responsible to pick up 2 kids at pickup, and I know I am capable to do that.

People will probably freak out on me, but unless the walk into the building for before care is really long, you can hustle the 5 year old in the building quickly and leave the 2 year old in the car for the 60 seconds or less it will take. Or once your kid knows the way to before care, he can walk into the classroom on his own.

I really think this depends on the set up of the school and parking lot.

When I had daycare drop off, I did walk older child in for 30 seconds. The daycare had its own parking lot and the car was only a few feet from the front door.

I did not use SACC at our school but the SACC area was inside the school. It would take at least 5 min and parking wasn’t right in front. I would lose visual of my car. I could not leave a young child in car.

I would leave 5yo in car for a minute to drop off 2yo but not the other way around.

Yeah, I'm the PP - at our school you can drive right up in front of the door that leads to SACC and then it's maybe 25 feet to the SACC room. I can see my kid enter and either she waves to me or the SACC person does, so no need to get out of the car.

NP. You're lucky, PP! Are you in Fairfax County? We are and our SACC says that an adult is required to drop you off at the door, at the very least, and they enforce it. So in our case, you'd be required to get out of your car to walk your kid to school.

Not PP, but our SACC setup (Fairfax County) is similar. We can park curbside right at the entrance door. When that door opens, SACC is the first classroom on the right. You can see in the SACC window from the car, and can see the car from the SACC classroom. I've often walked DC to the entrance door (<20 ft from my car), stood at the entrance door while he walks into SACC, said hi to the SACC teachers from the hallway, while never taking an eye off my car. It just depends on the layout of the school, I guess.

I'm the PP and this is similar to our setup except I would have to walk into the hallway and take a left turn so I would lose sight of the car for a few seconds. I do usually walk my kid to the door of the classroom, but kid doesn't like a public handoff so sometimes she'll be out of the car and up the steps before I've turned off the car!

[Anonymous]

How do you navigate life?

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Simple...keep nanny on retainer for sick days, also pay her to drop off and pick up, one or both kids.

Pay her enough to make it worthwhile. It is not a problem, it is just an expense.