the leaving is the hardest part
 

Pickups may become a problem, though.

the leaving is the hardest part
 

If he's old enough to understand bribery use that. Something simple like a fitty.

Seriously, I used to promise my kid Godzilla pictures (back when the internet wasn't in every house)http://webhome.idirect.com/~jinsaku/Godzilla.jpg

the leaving is the hardest part
 

Just send the mom to do the pick-up. You people with kids make things much too complicated.

the leaving is the hardest part
 

this is Dad 101. Go to work an hour earlier so the wife has to drop him. then its her problem. Next?

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Not as in, kids you had when you started. I mean staring down the barrel of tyring to schedule your final exams around the my wife's delivery date and studying for the bar between 3AM feedings of a newborn.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Mine was born 3 weeks before my 1st day. Was hell. Don't do it. Put off one or the other for a year.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Sounds like one option is already out. But generally, having not been through the baby thing during law school, I'd advise multiple redundancy precautions from the end of second year until the end of third year.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Went to a four-hour final. Pager went off after twenty minutes. Wrote furiously for ten more, and left.

Got an A.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

You have anger management issues.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

The Wonk Princess was born six weeks before finals. I don't think I went to more than 10 classes. And it was my best semester, grade-wise.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Not here. The impending arrival of our first was announced to me two days after I completed the Bar Exam. Timing was just about perfect.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

I'll let you know after the paternity hearing.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Give that man a cigar (apparently the first of many). Wonk and Billmore, your stories are heartening; Hand - something like that was the plan, would that my wife had timing like yours; Pony - yikes (thought probably all too true).

I used to joke about how I would get stuck with all girls because things couldn't once slide my way easily. Murphy found a way to one-up my defeatism.

Thanks for past and future comments.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

Two thoughts, that aren't silly:

1) How many paper courses can you take in the Spring? That allows you to control timing somewhat, by avoiding exams.

2) Can you do a clerkship, and take the bar after that? Or maybe your firm will let you take it in Feb.

Anybody Have Kids While in Law School?
 

I disagree with this. Anything short of triplets and I'd go ahead and take the bar immediately. But if at all possible, don't work while studying for it. No one will blink at just studying for the bar the summer after graduation, but if you try to take it some other time, you'll be studying for the bar, raising a kid, and working. While it's doable, I think you'll find that the area that gets shortest shrift in that situation is raising the kid, and this will be disappointing to you.

So sign up for Barbri, take a morning class, read another two hours in the library and then go home. Catch another hour or two of study while the kid naps. You'll be okay.

I guess the other question is: do you already have a job in hand? If so, you're in a lot better position. Last semester grades will be much less critical. Getting As when you've got a three day old may be a challenge, but Cs are a different matter. It would be highly unlikely for a firm to pull an offer for bad last semester grades under the particular circumstances.