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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is now in 10th grade, and we have been doing a 30-mile roundtrip commute since K.  Yes, DC is up at 6:15am but I wouldn't trade the conversation time for anything.  DC started doing school work during the commute in K (reading mostly back then) and takes full advantage of homework time in the car.

DC values the extra study time or just listening to music.  Because I do low traffic backroads, our commute actually isn't that bad.

Your commute is what you make.  And I have a full time job with some telecommute flexibility so that really helps too.[/quote]

Could you please expand on whether your DC's social life has been affected by the commute? Thanks.[/quote]PP here.  DC has 4 BFFs who live closer to school than us and a couple of neighborhood BFFs.  In inclement weather (not today...I drove), occasionally DC will crash with them overnight and also the occasional weekend to hang out.  If there are  late school activities, I suck it up and make the drive or arrange for pickup from a parent who lives in my direction but not necessarily in my backyard.  I'll take 5 miles from my house versus 15 for a pickup.  Don't get me wrong.  I'm not doing cartwheels over my long commute but I have made it work.

Also, there are times when DC wants extra sleep time, so we take a full breakfast tray in the car complete with candelabra.  No problem.   We make it work because that's the sacrifice we make for commuting to a school that DC loves.

DC has an active social life, and I drive for all the ECs which are not in our neighborhood and wouldn't have been anyway.  Social get togethers are always prearranged with the occasional last minute game after school and D wants to stay.  Again, my question to DC is 'anybody coming this way afterwards'?

So, it can be a juggling act but I've been doing it so long and am used to it.  For the commute, I have three bailout routes if there're traffic issues which have never failed me.

I am not trying to paint a rosy picture.  There are times when I DO NOT want to make that drive but we're in the final stretch.  DC will be driving soon and knows the routes hands down.  Then I will get my just rewards of letting DC deal with the traffic (safely, of course) while I enjoy my coffee at the table instead of in the car.

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