Parents with older kids schedules that conflict with napping sibling

[Anonymous]

I have 2 elementary kids and a 2yo who naps roughly around 12:30-3:30. Often she goes down a little later and can sleep until 4:30.

My kids will start spring sports soon. We moved last year and did not do fall sports. Last year, she was a baby and slept all over the place and fell asleep in her infant car seat that I could transfer to a stroller. She is too big for this now.

Do you just wake up your sleeping child?
Should I get a driver?

DH comes home early occasionally 2x per week but not consistently.

[Anonymous]

My 2nd child slept in the car or on a blanket at the field (if it was warm).

[Anonymous]

This was why having a nanny from 2-7pm was perfect for us. The nanny could stay home, do kid laundry and be there while the baby napped while I spent quality time with the older kids.

Then when we came home, she could make dinner with the older kids while I fed the toddler and spent quality time with her.

[Anonymous]

What time do you anticipate practice starting?

Most don't start until after 5pm (b/c the coaches know kids are still coming home from school, parents work, the coaches themselves work FT and need to get home).

Plus, it is the tail-end of your kid's nap even if practice does start right after school.

Worst case scenario - see if there is a classmate/neighborhood friend, etc that is on the same team and see if you can set up a carpool.

I don't see how this is an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What time do you anticipate practice starting?

Most don't start until after 5pm (b/c the coaches know kids are still coming home from school, parents work, the coaches themselves work FT and need to get home).

Plus, it is the tail-end of your kid's nap even if practice does start right after school.

Worst case scenario - see if there is a classmate/neighborhood friend, etc that is on the same team and see if you can set up a carpool.

I don't see how this is an issue.

It is for spring and also summer. Camps are 9-12 and a few are 9-3. I would have to wake her up for the 3pm pick up.

[Anonymous]

What sports start earlier than 4pm? Many kids in this area aren't even out of school until close to then.

Also, carpool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What time do you anticipate practice starting?

Most don't start until after 5pm (b/c the coaches know kids are still coming home from school, parents work, the coaches themselves work FT and need to get home).

Plus, it is the tail-end of your kid's nap even if practice does start right after school.

Worst case scenario - see if there is a classmate/neighborhood friend, etc that is on the same team and see if you can set up a carpool.

I don't see how this is an issue.

It is for spring and also summer. Camps are 9-12 and a few are 9-3. I would have to wake her up for the 3pm pick up.

Sign them up for longer camps or the extended day option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What time do you anticipate practice starting?

Most don't start until after 5pm (b/c the coaches know kids are still coming home from school, parents work, the coaches themselves work FT and need to get home).

Plus, it is the tail-end of your kid's nap even if practice does start right after school.

Worst case scenario - see if there is a classmate/neighborhood friend, etc that is on the same team and see if you can set up a carpool.

I don't see how this is an issue.

It is for spring and also summer. Camps are 9-12 and a few are 9-3. I would have to wake her up for the 3pm pick up.

So are you talking summer CAMPS and not the garden variety spring recreation league soccer practice? ^^ It's not really how your post read.

It still doesn't matter too much - your 2 yr old can nap after the 12pm pickup (if you're doing a 9-12) and you can be assured that for the 9-3 camp your 2 yr old can wake up a wee bit early from the nap for you to pick up at 3pm.


Keep in mind in though, that by summer time - another 4 or 5 months away - your 2 yr old may not be napping THAT long anymore (or beginning to drop it...especially if he's approaching the 3 yr old mark).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What sports start earlier than 4pm? Many kids in this area aren't even out of school until close to then.

Also, carpool.

We are new so don’t know anyone to carpool with. Also live in a super high traffic area.

[Anonymous]

I wish my two year would ever nap more than 90 min, as your child gets older, that 3 hour nap will get shorter, I would think.

[Anonymous]

You don’t need to do activities that conflict with the nap. It sounds like you don’t need the childcare coverage so only sign up for things where you can do the pickup.

I prioritize naps. So I absolutely don’t sign up for things if I would have to wake the youngest up. But we don’t do after school activities unless they are at the school and part of after care (oldest is only in K so it may change).

[Anonymous]

Your nap time seems too long for a third kid, realistically. I'd wake him a good 15 minutes before you need to be somewhere, so 2:45 or so for school pickup. Try getting him down closer to 12. That's a solid nap period and I wouldn't feel guilty in the least about cutting it shorter.

My third stopped napping around age 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What sports start earlier than 4pm? Many kids in this area aren't even out of school until close to then.

Also, carpool.

We are new so don’t know anyone to carpool with. Also live in a super high traffic area.

Apologies, but I'm starting to think this post is a joke.

Where is your traffic so high that you can't get your elementary-school aged child from school to a sports practice/game site between 3:30 pm and the start of practice, which in my experience never start prior than 5pm? 90 minutes isn't going to work out for you? And that's the worst case. Most practices don't start until later than 5pm anyway.

Meet people to carpool with. Stand on the sideline of practice and say things like "Hello, I'm Sally." Then progress to, "Would you be willing to pick up Bobby for practice if I dropped Sam back home at the end of practice?"

Yeah, you just can't be real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What sports start earlier than 4pm? Many kids in this area aren't even out of school until close to then.

Also, carpool.

We are new so don’t know anyone to carpool with. Also live in a super high traffic area.

Apologies, but I'm starting to think this post is a joke.

Where is your traffic so high that you can't get your elementary-school aged child from school to a sports practice/game site between 3:30 pm and the start of practice, which in my experience never start prior than 5pm? 90 minutes isn't going to work out for you? And that's the worst case. Most practices don't start until later than 5pm anyway.

Meet people to carpool with. Stand on the sideline of practice and say things like "Hello, I'm Sally." Then progress to, "Would you be willing to pick up Bobby for practice if I dropped Sam back home at the end of practice?"

Yeah, you just can't be real.

We live near the 495 entrance in McLean. Traffic is real!