Would you carpool to daycare?

Re: Would you carpool to daycare?

• 74dragonfly member

  January 2015

  So my bff who I've love the most is a little (lot) flakey and she is always running late. I could never carpool with her. But if your friend is on it and able to be ready each day to make sure you aren't late I'd try it.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  

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• djm31012 member

  January 2015

  Are you talking about driving together to daycare and then driving together to work? Or just someone doing drop offs/someone else doing pick ups then switching it up?  If its the latter, I would say definitely do it, with the understand that if you get out of work early one day, you will pick up your child and she will have to go pick up hers and vice versa.....as long as you both have car seats in your car at all times so that if something comes up and you need to get your child at a different time that doesnt present an issue.

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• jlaOK member

  January 2015

  We don't work near each other only live near each other.  We are thinking of family doing drop offs and the other doing pick ups.  She is really reliable the only caveat is if she and her DH have to work late (their schedules are more demanding than my DH's and mine) but I wouldn't mind her DD coming to our house for a bit until one of them can pick her up.
  
  I think we might do a trial run for a month and then see if it's working for everyone.  Like @Lynn0514 said the worst thing that could happen  is we go back to separate daycare runs and I think we could do that with no hurt feelings.
  

  

                                                

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• Samiantha101 member

  January 2015

  I absolutely would give it a go. My husband does all of our drop-offs and pick-ups, and he is really overwhelmed by it, mostly because our daughter is such a stinker in the car. I think a friend would make the ride more pleasant for her.

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• Mustardseed2007 member

  January 2015

  I think I would probably try it. Your DD is 1.5 about right now?

  The things that come to my mind:

  1) Getting two kids into and out of the car is logistically harder than if you just have one-think about whether they are both walking or walking well enough to walk into the school. If not do you need a double stroller?

  2) I would say how hard it is as far as separation depends on the kid and maybe the age of the kid as well. I would think having a friend involved would make the emotional aspect of separation easier, but it would kind of suck if one of them is screaming from the moment they get into the car all the way to the entrance to the room. KWIM?

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

   

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