It drives me nuts to be late and I found that the more children I had, the more I was running crazy trying to be on time to everything. After a couple of $$ speeding tickets and some perspective gaining (what truly is more important, that 15 minutes or my babies' lives?), I decided to learn not to push things and do less in each day and realistically plan how long what I choose to do will take. So, now that I have 5 kids, we may not always do a lot of activities out of the neighborhood each day, but we're usually on time. Except of course on the days when I say to the boys "get in the car" and they interpret that to mean "run in separate directions everywhere BUT the garage". That's the other thing I'm learning about punctuality, the more people I'm in charge of, the less I actually have control of my time. I had no idea how much zen I would have to channel to be a mother.