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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's the schedule we have now and it works well (and has worked well for years).

My wife goes in early and gets off at 3 pm.  She was always home in the afternoons and it has made things so much easier now that they are older and in more activities.

Also, it has made weekends easier as she gets errands completed on Thursday and Friday afternoons.

Even though I'm home in the mornings because I don't have to be at work until 9, the kids still get up early for school.  All of ours are out the door by 7:30.  Pretty much everyone is up at 5:45.  [/quote]

Sure - but out the door at 7:30 is VERY different than at daycare by 6:30. We are also usually out the door by 7:30, but it is hard to imagine leaving the house a full hour and fifteen minutes earlier.[/quote]

We've done both and for our family, the early daycare drop-off was not at all harder than getting school-aged kids out the door by 7:30. When my twins were 9 mos-2 years old, we left for daycare at 6:10. But they were naturally awake by 5:30 or even 5am most of the time (even on weekends, unfortunately) so it was fine. We've always gone to bed early and they took nice long naps during the day. The daycare had no problem whatsoever with getting them dressed and feeding them breakfast, so it took 10 mins to get them out the door. I brought in clothes for the week on Mondays and took their laundry home with me on Fridays.

Now that they're 9, they wake up at 6:45 and we have to leave at 7:20-7:30 for school. It's tough to get them up and going sometimes, dressed for the day, having had breakfast or grabbing something to eat in the car, with backpacks and stuff for after-school activities and my work stuff to haul to the car.

I guess my point is that when my kids were little, they could adjust to whatever schedule they needed to. Trying to get my 9 year olds up at 5am on a regular basis wouldn't work at all.[/quote]

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