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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dropping kids off/picking them up, running them around to activities, making them snacks is not a hard job but it is a responsible job.

It's harder when they are younger.  Once they get older and can ride the bus or walk home or stay after school for an activity it becomes easier.

Most extracurricular activities take place during evening hours. [b]You really have to look to find a non school related activity that happens directly after school.[/b]

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??? All my kids activities are right after school: soccer, swim, gymnastics and piano. None are in the evening.[/quote]

[b]My kid's coaches are working parents so all practices start 5pm or later.  We have one practice that is 6:30 to 7:30pm [/b]and my oldest practices travel from 6-8pm twice a week.

But my youngest kid doesn't even get off the school bus until 4:15pm so the earliest could be 5pm anyway.  [/quote]

[b]Same here.  I think a lot of the "is it difficult or not" is affected by the overall culture of your area and the predominance of working vs. SAH parents.  WOH has been easy for us because my kids want to be at extended day because that's where all their friends are.  They do a couple extracurricular activities there.  Their sports (rec level) all have practices no earlier than 5:30 because the coaches are working parents too.  Those sports also only meet 1-2 times a week for practice during M-F plus a game or occasional weekend tournament.  If they wanted to do something like dance or gymnastics, we'd have a problem because I know those are not scheduled at convenient times for working parents.  They don't do piano lessons but the kids I know who do that have them in the evenings.  DD sang in church choir for a while, which is scheduled at 6:30 pm, because parents work.  It takes an acknowledgement from all the organizations involved in kids activities that a 4pm activity doesn't work for lots of families.

And on the in-school front, our school very, very rarely has events where they want parents there during the day.  Maybe one activity per year per grade asks for volunteers and there is zero expectation that all parents will come.  There are no parent-attending holiday parties, except for a Xmas thing in K and a Thanksgiving thing in 1st.  Once you are into the upper grades, most families do not have  SAHP.[/b]

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Where are you located? We are in an area with predominately at stay home moms. A lot of practices start around 4:30, they shift schedules around at the last minutes, and there is numerous activities at school where parents volunteers. Initially, I thought this was great because it means the school has a lot of community/parent involvement. However, it's turned out to the more difficult than I thought. DD who is kindergarten told me she was sad that a lot of the other parents are there for various activities and I have only been to 2 class activities and 1 field trip.  Lots of playdates take place after school during the week when I cannot participate so my children also feel left out because they are not invited to play dates :-( I invite their friends to play dates during the weekend so I make an effort for that. [/quote]

Better question is where do you live?  This isn't the norm.[/quote]

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