How long is your school run - round trip?

[McDreamy]

Just wondering as mine is an hour (sometimes just over) and I am wondering if I am slightly mad!

about 7 mins each way walking
about 3 mins in car if on way to work after

3 or 4 min walk each way.

Verity - that's 3 hours a day! How do you do it?

Let me see, when we lived in London, left the house 8.15, school starting 9.05. Preschool next door starting 9.30, so back home for 10 am.

Pick up: Leave the house 14.35 for 15.00 pick up, back for 15.45.

That was mad.

Now, he walks to and from school, and the walk to preschool is 5 minutes one way.

mine is 15 mins round trip

but..

I end up doing this 3, 5 or 7 times a day, to cover the kids different timetables, plus afterschool stuff.

It drives me nuts and costs a fortune in petrol.

Riven - we have no choice but to drive. No public transport and no footpaths!

at the most 30 mins round trip - walking

15 minutes there and back, including 5 minutes waiting for them to open the doors

Hi blu! I often wonder how I do it too! We did consider moving to be closer to the school, but we really love the area we live in now. Plus ds1 will be going to secondary in 18 mths and if we stay living here he will be able to catch a bus, but if we move closer to our primary I'd have to drive him.

The driving is quite tiring, especially towards the end of the week, but there's no alternative. I listen to lots of music and keep meaning to get some audio books from the library!

A 3-4 minute walk sounds blissful, think of me on Moday morning

40 mins walking,15 car

I used to do a 20 mile round trip twice a day. Now, since her old school closed, DD has moved to the one 100yards from the house. Lovely jubbly!

One hour is a nightmare OP.

Mine is 10 mins there, 5 mins home (I walk faster than the DCs!)

Cannot believe some of these long round trips in the car. Walking an hour, yes, but an hour in the car twice a day - no way jose.

At the moment it's 15 minutes each way.

After half-term it'll take closer to 8/9 hours to get there and back...

some of you sound like you have epic journeys! Hiking boots anyone?!

We live mile and a half away, so about 5-10mins one way in car depending on traffic, if walking it takes about 20mins to get there on my own or 45 mins with the kids in tow.
we do walk in the summer if they get up on time but the [problem is 2 very busy roads, with only one of them having a crossing.

18 mins on foot round trip
uphill on way there, downhill on way back

35-40mins by the time the DTDs drag themselves out of school...dawdle up/down the hill. Could do it withinn 20 if I didn't have the DTDs tagging along ....

10 mins walk there and alightly quicker back wihtout dawdling DSs

35 minutes in car.

44 miles a day

I leave the house at 8.15am, get home 9.30am. Same time in the afternoon. By bus. So 2hrs 30 mins per day. £ schools closer to me, all were full when I moved here with DD, couldn't move them (DS's are on waiting lists, but just like DD, won't get a place).

BUT I think my mum's journey for my brother beats you all...she did this 5 days a week for 7 years until my bro left after his A-levels last year. 25 miles each way. Twice a day. Soooo 100 miles per day, 500 miles per week. My brother is AS and the local (rural) MS wouldn't take him, and he was too academic to go to SN, so this MS secondary accepted him but only if my mum agreed to do all the transport to get him there....she's enjoying the rest now he's gone to Uni!!!

Our primary was just 10 min walk away.

For secondary 10 min walk to the bus stop.
Then 30 min bus ride. DH or I take them in the car on cricket match days because kit bags are large and the bus is crowded.

Is this little school or big school? Ime they re usually different,

anyway for primary, this is, we go out at 8.15 and get back around 9.40-10.30 depending if I get food on the way home.

It's a mile and a half each way.
If I take him in the car it's out at 8.30 and back by 9.

Most people walk as it's a city centre school with lots of v local families.

School is at end of our road, about 7 mins walk each way and still my DC ask why we can't drive!

Round trip longer in afternoon as my DD is at juniour school which comes out 15 mins after the infants my DS attends so we have an extra 15-25 mins hanging around. No fun in rain and sleet. Am thinking of starting a mobile brazier business with hot choc as extra, could make a mint.

I wish we were closer but not a lot I can do, concolation is the school they go to is really good. I just feel resigned to an hour school run twice a day for the next 10 years!!!!