Do You Have Reliable Childcare?
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Anonymous
| Curious how many WFH or hybrid workers have reliable childcare, meaning FT nanny/daycare/babysitter or are you piecing it together/parking the kids in front of the tv when camp is canceled, etc.? I feel like things have changed since covid, including the increasing costs! |
Anonymous
| Full time daycare. Kids go 8-6. |
Anonymous
| We have an after-school babysitter, kids are 5 and 10. She mainly drives them to classes. We pay her a lot. |
Anonymous
Covid ended long ago, as did the excuses for not having proper childcare. |
Anonymous
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Worked from home long before Covid. Wife works 3 7p-7a shifts a week. When DS was little, he did daycare until 5p on days wife had to sleep and she or I would grab him at 5. Other days she was home with him. For elementary school she was awake when he got off the bus. Generally she would try to schedule not to work on the random days off she'd have. Vacations were covered by us taking days off, MIL, or day camps. Sick days I could work around taking care of him if wife had to sleep.
He's 11 now so generally doesn't need us as much as long as one of us is home. |
Anonymous
| We have a full time nanny despite our kids being in elementary school. Comes in handy when a kid is home sick, school's out on a random day, we're traveling for work or have a deadline that keeps us late, Covid hits, etc. |
Anonymous
| Kids are 14 and 12. We have an after school driver. DH and I are typically pretty busy with meetings and same-day deliverables until 5:30 (me) and 7pm (him). |
Anonymous
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My kids are 2.5 and 4. We have a very reliable nanny in a share for the younger and the older goes to full day PK3 and aftercare. When there are random days off we always have coverage (temp nanny/day off camp) or one of us will take the day off. Every once in a while my husband will only take a half day off on a day like that, and will do an hour of work in the morning, work for 2 hours during nap (they’re both great nappers) and do an hour when I’m done. But that’s pretty rare since it’s exhausting.
I will say - if a kid is sick (lethargic/feverish, not puking) we will sometimes do the juggle. When my kids are like that they just want to lay in bed all day and watch TV and take a long nap, so it’s actually really easy to work from home like that. |
Anonymous
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We stagger hours (so I work 7-3:30 and DH works 8:30-5). Kids are in elementary/preschool from about ~8:30-4 (including time on the bus).
During school breaks we generally use backup camp. Sometimes I take the day off to do something with my older DC while the younger one is in preschool. Sick days we will sometimes work while relying on the tv babysitter, but usually we each end up doing a shortened day. As a general rule, I really dislike trying to work with kid(s) in the house so I try to avoid it. |
Anonymous
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Yes- one in daycare and one in school with aftercare. Both DH and I WFH with some travel.
We don’t have reliable childcare to cover sick days. Few days off for childcare and they align with our holidays. kid in elementary sometimes goes to day off camp days when school is closed, we take PTO or we’ll get a young middle school sitter since we are home and they do crafts and go to the park. I still get interrupted and make lunch and stuff but can work fine. |
Anonymous
| We have au pair for our 11 and 8 year old. I work from home. Husband works at the office. |
Anonymous
| We have a great before/after care program that is open on days that school is closed - and kids are old enough that they don’t need constant supervision/entertainment. |
Anonymous
| I was remote long before covid. Worked FT that required travel. DC was in elementary with 5 days a week aftercare. DH would handle logistics when I was traveling. On rare occasions I’d pick DC up early as a nice surprise but it the regular schedule and consistency was necessary for me to function well at my job and at parenting. |
Anonymous
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I WFH and my spouse is hybrid. We have full-time daycare. On sick days we just take off or juggle, but our jobs are flexible enough that this works fine.
Switching to a full-time nanny when our second arrives. I really value reliable childcare, worth the money IMO. |
Anonymous
| Yes of course |