Parents of Triplets Spend a lot of Time Driving Kids Around
If you didn’t already know, you would have guessed I have multiples too. I only have twins, but I am scared to death of the part when my kids are old enough to each be involved in different sports and music lessons and sleepovers and all that stuff that will involve me hauling my kids all over the place. Did I mention I live in one of the most congested metropolitan areas in the United States? It is going to be awesome.
Is it wrong to hope my kids are lazy teenagers? Or at least be involved in the same activities? Or maybe you guys could all pray that D.C. goes wireless by 2012. Then at least I will be able to do this in the car.
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I have four kids, three of them are in different after school activities. It is a nightmare trying to get them all where they need to be. I beg other people to drive them around because I physically can not be in three places at once. Luckily they have a lot of friends, so we carpool (or I beg them to take my kids with them).
One of the many reasons we decided to stay in Chicago instead of moving to the suburbs was the driving deal. I’m not planning on letting either of my twins get their driver’s license until they move out of our apartment. I’m going to try and confine our lives to our own neighborhood and then make them take the bus the rest of the time. Hopefully, by the time they’re old enough to take the bus by themselves we will have moved to a neighborhood where I feel comfortable letting them wait at the stop. Or maybe the one we’re in now will just get safer in the next decade.
Wish us luck!