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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's really hard to be parents with dual power careers of multiple kids.  Truly.

When they get to 5th/6th/7th grades, you will be carpooling and you need to make sure they are all good on the school fronts.  They get easier in some ways but mentally, it's a lot harder.  When they are young, you need to manage their food/sleep/play date routines.  But the tweens/teens - you have to think about so many things - it really depends on what kind of kids you have and you just don't know that until they are there.

I would definitely suggest considering what life may look like in 5 years in context of your kids.  You may think it's chaos now but let me tell you as a mom to a learning disability 8th grader and a high achieving perfect student but extroverted busy as all hell 6th grader, it isn't easier.  It's different, it's manageable but I don't know that it's "easier" because I have a professional driver to go along with being a breadwinner :)

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I wonder about carpooling—it seems way more stressful to me than having an invariant daily routine of pickup/dropoff where I’m only responsible for my own kids and don’t have to think too hard because every day is the same routine.[/quote]

The 6:00 activities are no problem, it’s sports at 4:00 and the weekend activity that’s like 2 hours and just slightly too long to go home. I’m a big fan of carpooling, but live in an easy going area with more relaxed parents (compared to a lot of what I hear here). We’ve never had carpool drama and it means I only have to leave work early once every three weeks instead of coordinating call schedules with DH  for pickup multiple times a week. For us, it’s less coordination because it minimizing the impact on my work schedule.[/quote]

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