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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I see people doing:

au pairs
stagger work days
carpools

I don't think it's true that no one carpools.  We carpool for everything.  We also carpool with families where my kid doesn't know the other kids or even like them.  Oh well.  Sit in the back with them anyway.[/quote]

Maybe we are just not cool enough, but whenever we try to start a carpool there are no takers. [/quote]

Is it possible everyone lives so spread out that a carpool doesn't really do anything for anyone?  If you have to spend an hour going around picking up everyone in the carpool and then it's another 30 minutes to the location and then 30 minutes back and an hour dropping everyone off...or something like that?

I just don't get it.  Where we live it isn't about cool or not...we all hate driving to sports practices and so if we can just drive once every 2 weeks (assuming 2 practices per week) we just care that you won't kill our kids, not whether anyone is cool.[/quote]

Agree has zero to do with cool.  I don't want more than 3 people in my carpool or else it gets too cumbersome and everyone should live reasonably close.  Otherwise, I don't care who you are and I have carpooled with many people where I've never even met the parents face to face.  Most teams/activities put out address info to facilitate carpools (and if they don't, ask them to) and I look at who lives close and then text/email the parents.  If people decline, I move on to the next.[/quote]

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