My elderly neighbor was in chuckling away one evening and asked how is that I can get 5 kids out the door, get 4 loaded in the stroller, do the school run and get 5 back in the house with them never being out of arms reach during transitions. He watches the same kids getting picked up at night out in sets of 2 or solo, and running down the sidewalk, in neighbors yards, sometimes in the street, hollering and running from mom.

If I have no other children in care and things are looking like a chaotic pick up, I have no problem assisting taking one child up & out, but will not place them in the car.

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