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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 4 fairly close in age. You have gotten good advice.

1. If someone needs a ride, and you can help, say yes. This way you can ask for favors in return.

2. You need to organize the carpools. Don't wait around for someone to ask you. Start the conversation and offer to organize it.

3. You or your spouse offers to coach. Then you can set the practice schedule for at least one team. [/quote]

This is sound advice. I have 3 (es,ms and 9th) My husband works out of town 4 days a week. I have to rely on carpools or when his job changed they would have had to drop activities they’d been in for years and love. I was active setting them up and it made my life so much easier.

I wasn’t able to do #3, but know some families with a fantastic set up where Dad in family A coaches one sport and Dad in family B coaches the other. There are about 5 kids who play both the sports on the same two teams. They coordinate practice and game schedules to fit both.

Don’t feel like you need to stay for practice. If I had all the time in the world, I might stay occasionally, but even then I’d rather walk around the fields or run a quick errand.

This season, I’ve got two with back to back practices multiple times a week. Larlo is picked up by the carpool to go to practice. I get there with Larla about 15 minutes left in the first practice so Larla can change (hockey). I watch the last 15 minutes of practice. Then I watch the first 10 minutes of Larla’s practice while Larlo and carpool child change. [/quote]

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