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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yup, be smart about carpools -- if they are not really a help/solving a problem and/or are more trouble than they are worth, then don't do that carpool.  But, for example, my DD has a particular activity that starts at 4:00 on Tuesdays and there are two other girls at her school who do this activity too.  If they were to take the bus home, they wouldn't make it to the activity on time.  So, to get the kids there, the moms need to leave or step away from work early, pick up from school, and drive them.  We arranged a carpool so each mom needs to do this only once every three Tuesdays instead of every Tuesday -- and it's just one pick up (from school).  It's AHHHHMAZING!  We then each pick up our own kid from the activity when it's over.  [/quote]

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