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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, first I would take a deep breath. I agree with everyone that unless you don't have a job, have only one kid and never need a favor this is not stressful - it's stressful or at least logistically a challenge every time a new sports season rolls around. So everyone is dealing with this.

They have the "kick off the team" rule for late pickup because they don't want the coach to stick around so parents show up whenever, so kudos to you for realizing you should be there on time (not every parent cares about this).

If I were in your shoes, I would:
1) Figure out how many days a week you can drive by putting your younger kids in aftercare, hiring a sitter or seeing if they can do a playdate at a friends. Maybe it's one a week, fine. Reach out to 4-5 other parents on the chain - go for parents you know have jobs bc they also need help - and see if you can do something where you all drive one day a week. If you only have space for 3 kids in your car, you offer to drive 1-2 days a week. I think people would find the military spouse thing very sympathetic in this situation and would be happy to help. Or just write some version of your post on the Team Snap and see who helps out.
2) If you can truly not find any solution then call the coach and say this is what the situation is, can my son go to the 7-11 or whatever is around there and I'll pick him up there.
3) Start offering to drive kids places so you have a group of people who can help you out, for instance my DD had 7:15 am violin one day a week last year so I picked up a classmate who was on the way and didn't expect them to ever carpool to violin. The mom will help out any time I need it after school, though, because she can and wants to return the favor. 
4) If you can't or won't do 1-3 - and you seem reluctant to ask for help in this situation, I may be reading that wrong - than your kids can't do sports and tell them that. My kid can't do every activity she wants bc of logistics, it happens.

My joke with the carpooling is I have graphs every week that look like the ones from "A Beautiful Mind." It takes time every week to figure out the carpool schedule but the time saved has been great, as someone pointed out I also like driving other kids so you can hear what is going on. [/quote]

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