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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL! We have one child and have a "large" 3 row SUV. Because I'm her Girl Scout troop leader and she's in a big car pool for school (LD school). It is also our only vehicle as we live walking distance to metro (Vienna). Don't assume you know everything about these people OP! [/quote]

Blah, blah, blah. You lost me at one kid. [/quote]

As a parent of one kid, most parents of multiple kids expect you to do the driving/hard work as they complain they cannot with multiple kids.[/quote]

I'm a parent of one kid and no one has ever expected me to drive their kid around or take care of their kids. Also, my kid does Girl Scouts and I can only think of a handful of times where it made sense to transport them somewhere in one vehicle, and we collectively rented a vehicle for it. None of the parents of our troupe has a car big enough to transport all of them at once and no one would expect them to -- there are always multiple chaperones for any activity so there are 3-4 cars going anyway since of course no one has a car big enough for 3-4 adults and 7 girls. That's called a transport van.[/quote]

Sports carpools of 3-4 kids are very, very common if your kid played a travel sport with 3 practices per week.[/quote]

What if you chose sports walking distance from your home?

What if your kids didn't do travel sports that require tons of driving?

What if you chose to live somewhere with public transportation or bike paths to most things, including sports practices, or lobbied your local government to provide buses and bike paths to make that possible where you live?

Y'all act like you just woke up one day with lifestyles that require a giant SUV and a five-bedroom house on a half-acre lot 30-40 minutes from work. These are all choices. I judge your choices. You are not helpless. You are living exactly the life you want to live, it is one that relies on tons of consumption, including lots of fossil fuels, and you are part of the problem.

Don't sit there and try to convince me you have NO CHOICE in any of this. The whole point is that we all have a choice.[/quote]

Most sports are not by ones home.  We don't do travel sports but we have sports 4-6 days a week, plus other activities.  And, we have a 1000 square foot house.  What size is yours?  What cars do you drive and how many miles do you put on?  Its funny how some just when they are far worse with their big houses and miles on their cars.[/quote]

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