I found a creative way to outsource my kids' day-care pickups and drop-offs. It helped me get back 7 hours a week.
A working mother developed a mutually beneficial arrangement by lending her van to her daycare provider in exchange for daily child transportation. This solution saved her seven hours of commuting time per week.
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This highlights innovative personal logistics and time-management strategies for working parents.
A new drop-off and pickup arrangement for day care helped save my sanity as a working mom and gave me some time back. Alexandra Frost I lend my van to our day-care provider during the week so she has a vehicle to use with the kids. In exchange, she picks up my three little ones to bring to day care and then drops them off after. This arrangement gave me hours of my week back and inspired me to streamline more of my routine. "Why isn't there just a toddler bus?" I thought to myself one freezing morning at 7 a.m. as I was loading three of my five little kids into my car to head to day care.
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