How much do you spend on childcare monthly?
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Anonymous
| $700/month for PT sitter (15 hours a week) for 11 month old |
Anonymous
| $700 for before/after school care for 10 year old. |
Anonymous
What about people who lived in lower COLAs and have to move here for work? Should they just put down their existing kids? |
Anonymous
| two in preschool in old town , $3200/month -ouch! |
Anonymous
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I do not understand thevargument that you should not have kids if you do not make enough money. Two working parents, or even one working parent, should get by with a child, or two.
What is so outrageous about that? The argument that they should leave the area if they do not make enough money is also stupid |
Anonymous
| I use home daycare (almost always cheaper) and pay 400/week (200 per kid). But she gives me a discount because my husband and I are teachers. Her standard rate is 265/week/kid. In two years daycare will be done and I will only need before school care for about 400/month. I'll be very excited to have that money back on my pocket. |
Anonymous
| We pay $1200 for a full-day preschool in Falls Church City, meals included. It's a very good deal. I am shocked at the cost of infant daycare in DC - it's not even very good but paying two grand for the privilege is insane. |
Anonymous
| $490/week for nanny share for 1 child (22 months) and 45 hours/week, near Courthouse. Share has 1 other child, same age, and we pay all taxes (it's $415/week before taxes). We were on waiting lists for three daycare centers (never got into any of them) and they ranged from $1850-$2000/mo for infant care. |
Anonymous
| $1290 for day care three days a week at a day care center in Potomac. My mom watches our son the other two days. |
Anonymous
| 1850/month for two kids. One in preschool and one infant. |
Anonymous
| $1000 month for one baby. Family member watches her full time. |
Anonymous
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$200 a week for an awesome full time preschool for 2 year old in DC.
About $70 a month for afterschool for K student at school. |
Anonymous
| Where is that preschool PP? |
Anonymous
We definitely would have done that if DH and I were both working FT. Instead, I became a SAHM and had our two kids very close together to minimize my time out of the workplace (I originally planned to go back when #2 was 3 but the SAHM life was working well for us so I didn't go back until she was in K) |
Anonymous
| Two in a home daycare. $250/week per child so $2000-$2500 a month, depending on the number of weeks. This is in Falls Church |