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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a bit older so I did not have the hybrid or work from home option when my kids were young   I had my kids in a daycare that was located at my office so a bit more expensive, but I did drop off and pick up. On sick days, my husband and I would take turns who would stay home and take care of the child or sometimes we would do half days I would work in the morning and he would go to the office and then he would come home at lunch and I would go into the office.

We did not make enough money for me to quit my job. And the daycare craziness was only for five years as I have two kids that are back to back.

Once they were in elementary school, we used the schools after care program. In the summers, I would coordinate summer camps with the parents of my kids friends so that we could take turns with drop off and pick up.[/quote]

Millennials refuse to talk to and coordinate with other parents.  There is a marked difference in this between how the parents of my 6th grader behave (and behaved 5 years ago) and the parents of my 1st grader behave. [/quote]

I'm confused. The parents of sixth and first graders are both generally millennials. [/quote]

I have a 6th grader and a 2nd grader and I’m (barely) genX. I see no difference between my older and younger children’s parents in terms of carpools and coordination. Where I see a marked difference is between parents whose 2nd grader is their oldest vs middle/youngest.

I was much quicker to instigate car pools and drop off activities for my younger child. Because of WFH, a lot of parents got used to being home at 4:30 or staying to watch practices. We no longer have that luxury. Parents who didn’t have school age kids pre-pandemic will get on board by fall. [/quote]

Maybe this is what it is, maybe it's related to the pandemic, but parents of my younger child's kids have zero interest in carpooling, definitely don't do as many playdates as my older kid, etc.[/quote]

Play dates are usually you demanding free child care.  And carpools are the one family family doing all the driving.  I’ll help out on occasion but not on a regular basis. I got burned too many times where play dates became too frequent as with carpools with no help when I needed it and I wanted time with my kids to do things after like dinner and not have to constantly pay for an extra kid or two. [/quote]

You seem to have crappy friends.  We carpooled 50-50 for 4 years with the same family.  And playdates we alternate.  [/quote]

That’s not playdates.  That’s exchanging babysitting.  We did activities our kids enjoyed, not just because we could carpool.  These were not friends.  They were strangers whose kids were in the activities demanding rides as in we pick up from their house and drop off every time.  [/quote]

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