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[quote=Anonymous]I agree SAHP find it insulting rather than saying, oh sure the morning is fine but the afternoons are complicated so he may have to do aftercare. But as a working parent I was not insulted when my friend asked to carpool. I just told her my schedule and she worked around it. It's not about disrespecting or not valuing other's time. It a simple question. Can you carpool?

[quote=Anonymous]The issue is that having additional kids in your car means that you are tied to bringing them home directly from school. You can't pick up your kids and head off to a park, you can't get together for in formal play dates with your children's friends, and you can't really do errands on your way home with other kids in tow. I used to carpool, and there was no problem with having an additional two children in the car. What it lacked, though, was any flexibility for the parent doing the driving. I wanted to be able to hang out with my kids at the library and do homework some days.  I wanted to be able to schedule extracurriculars and I felt like, without having someone else's children in mind. By the time my kids were through early elementary years, we only went straight home from school one or possibly two days per week. And on some of those days, we had their friends coming home with us.

This may be different from when we parents were young, when people tended to do fewer outside activities after school. Also, the kids in my neighborhood growing up tended to play all together. Now that Kids from school are spread it throughout many neighborhoods, there's much more driving to and from play dates. So, I wouldn't take offense, or assume a parent who has chosen to stay at home is trying to be unfriendly, if she does not want to commit to driving additional kids, particularly for gas money. In fact, I would prefer to help someone out as a favor, rather then have a working parent offer me gas money. Really, it may come off as quite insulting. You may be able to find someone to help out, but I would be very careful how you approach it, as it might be easy to get a bad reputation if other parents feel you do not value their time, and especially their time with their kids.[/quote][/quote]

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