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Soccer Dad is a father of 4 children. All of his kids are in school, they all participate in different activities and have very different schedules. He His wife is in charge of keeping all of the schedules updated but he helps, which requires gathering information off the school website, or from school handouts, and usually also involves contacting the parents of other students to make sure that no event is glossed over.
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This Dad is technologically savvy, keeping digital calendars with all of his kids’ schedules, and has an address book with all of the other parents and viable helpers. He also began to use email more as it became popular, although now that his children can drive, he no longer needs to contact other parents for help.
What we learned:
- Effort is required to gather necessary information concerning scheduling events
- Coordinating with other parents can be difficult
- Contacting other parents for help usually happens one at a time through phone calls, although email is getting more and more popular and allows easy mass communication with several other parents
- Digital calendars and organized address books are helpful
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Children
Children are usually not involved in planning, but they are responsible for knowing their own schedule on a daily basis each day and who will be driving them to and from activities.
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- Easily create and distribute schedules.
- Reach out to all parents using a calendar to communicate changes.
Child:
- View Calendarcalendar.
- Know who is going to be driving them to and from activities for the day.