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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- You carpool
- You hire someone to drive them 
- You only let them do activities you can take them to
- You make them figure it out (your kid is in high school? He's old enough to figure out a way to get to practice other than having his mom not work so she can drive him there every day  :roll: )[/quote]

My kid is 14 and will start high school this fall. He cannot figure out how to get to school. There is no public bus. There is no school bus just for sports. He cannot drive. His friends can’t drive. He is too young to Uber by himself. We live too far to walk. We also live along an extremely busy and dangerous road or else I may suggest he bike.[/quote]

+1. These people suggesting this nonsense don’t have older kids. [/quote]

Or maybe our kids just have useful life skills, like talking to their friends on the team and figuring out a way to get to practice for a sport they signed up to do every day during the summer? No wonder your kids can't figure this stuff out if you can't as adults though...[/quote]

NP.  This is just ridiculous.  No, not every teen lives in a walkable neighborhood, nor is this always a choice by the parent who has to consider finances/access to job, nor does every teen have access to “friends on the team” (aka other parents) to drive them if they just ask.  This isn’t a reflection of whether a teen can “figure it out”, it’s about access to a vehicle.[/quote]

You have to really wonder about a parent who cannot reach out to other parents and doesn't care who takes their child.  I get tired of these parents and as much as I like and feel bad for the kids I'm not driving your kid, especially when you refuse to help at all.[/quote]

I’ve never had a problem with reciprocation for carpools fortunately.  [/quote]

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