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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a SAHM of 3 and have a full time nanny.  I don't want baby dragged around and in containers (carseats / strollers) all day.  But with 4 drop offs / pick ups every day just for school and then any activities, baby needs his own care taker to get his needs met at home (yes of course he'd be fine in the car all day, but i don't want that for him)[/quote]

Honestly, I don’t want to be strapped in the car hours a day as an adult.  That sounds terrible.  Why is everyone spending so much of their life driving?  Don’t other people live in the suburbs with close by public schools?  And why doesn’t anyone have elementary schoolers ride the bus?  [/quote]

I live in the city and the local urban school isn't great so we go to a private thats 2 miles (but a 12min drive) away.  So with the loading and unloading time that's 30min round trip each way in a car seat and that's just for one kids school.  The preschooler is in half day a mile away, so he gets dropped off in the same swoop (making the morning drop offs take about 45min total) but his pick up is separate and all in takes another 30min door to door because i have to go in, sign him out, check his stuff etc.  We live in Chicago so that 2 mile walk round trip is miserably cold many months of the year so its a drive until the weather is nicer.  Then pick up for the older is at 3 so that's another 30 min round trip.

A few days a week the kids go swimming or something to get out a lot of physical energy which is also close but also a drive when weather is bad...and baby would just be in a carrier for most activities anyways.  So whether its car, stroller, or strapped to me, if we are out of the house he's contained and not able to explore his own world on the floor.

(please don't pick at the specifics like "why can't the baby swim too"...i'm just using the example of just our close by schools with 2 kids on different schedules for pickup to show you how even that could easily turn into 2 hours in a car seat for a baby every day.[/quote]

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