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I'm wondering if anyone has any tips for dealing with sports schedules that keep everyone (including the littles) out late. I have 4 kids in baseball right now. We have 3 more weeks in the season so we're almost done, but... I see fall soccer in my future. Our city's baseball league seems to schedule no Saturday games, so we are often at the park until after 9 at night. My dh is often out of town and my inlaws help a little with the later games, but mostly it is me carting everyone around, and none of us are really getting enough sleep. Even when my littles go to bed at 10 or 10:30, they still get up at 7 AM (or earlier  ).
I know I can't be the only one with this problem, so looking to those of you with more experience!
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Is there any way you can find someone to carpool with? If you and someone else can help one another, then you might be able to schedule your later night runs for only the times when someone can be home with your youngers. But that doesn't help with your being there to watch the game, does it? 
If you do have to bring everyone along, what about reclaiming some energy by having a naptime/quiet time? That might be a good idea especially during the hottest part of a summer day.
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When we have late-night things like that, I carpool with families-with-only-older-kids. I take them. The other parents bring them home.
I have also had neighbors to do pick-ups......we have a man in his 70's whose wife died last year...he loves getting out and picking up for me, and getting meals in return!
Friends with older kids who have more late-night-things than we do have a bike-riding teen come over and babysit, while she runs to do a pick-up.
OR...if I must take them when my husband is out of town, we "jammie-up" either beforehand or in the car and they fall asleep in the car and get transferred. We practice "getting home" and NOT TALKING while the olders get ready for bed, so it's not completely chaos and the little ones are woken up and think it's play time.
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I was thinking a naptime. Also.. how dark is the bedrooms? One of the reasons kids (or anyone) wakes up in the morning before they have enough sleep.. is too much light coming in. You might try just putting a dark sheet over the window to try out if darkening the windows helps.
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I actually have the opposite problem.. swim team is an early morning sport.. and I need to get kids to wake up earlier and go to sleep earlier but it's light until almost 9pm right now.
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