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Tips to deal with complicated carpools

Think you're ready to take the plunge? Randi Chapnik Myers has been there — and survived. Here are her best on-road tips

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Originally published in Today's Parent September 2010

I thought I would explode. After I’d finally nailed down a three-family carpool for the school year, one mom was insisting that I buy not one, not two, but four booster seats for the five-minute ride home. In her view, if carpool kids need boosters, your car should accommodate them. The problem was that at age seven, my youngest was tall enough to ride like the big boys. But in the name of carpooling, we worked it out. After I dug two boosters out of storage, each of the other moms donated one to my car. Now all I had to do was remember to keep them in the trunk.

Carpooling: It’s a necessary evil. With three kids at three different schools, I can’t live without it. But it does have its perks. Sharing drives saves precious time and money, helps the environment and allows kids to get to know other kids along the way. Still, there’s no getting around it: Carpooling is complicated. So if you’re looking to be part of a carpool — for school, hockey, ballet or Brownies — here’s how to steer around those bumps in the road.

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