"Hire a college kid" -- the go to answer for summer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- How were you normally going to find summer care that is less than that? I'm a teacher and hopefully I can find a summer nanny job. My own kid is old enough to be alone by himself and I need the money.

Camps are $150-200/week per child. Max $400/week. College student will run $600-800/week ($15-20 per hour).

Including after care? This seems really cheap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- How were you normally going to find summer care that is less than that? I'm a teacher and hopefully I can find a summer nanny job. My own kid is old enough to be alone by himself and I need the money.

Camps are $150-200/week per child. Max $400/week. College student will run $600-800/week ($15-20 per hour).

Including after care? This seems really cheap.

This, camps that amount are typically half day in our area (a smaller area outside DMV) Max $400/week, every week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard this solution proposed several times. This seems to be the solution to summer for a lot of working parents, if camps are closed and offices are open.

But how are we supposed to find some random college kid that: a) we can trust enough to leave our young children with for hours each day... during a pandemic; b) is not an asymptomatic carrier; c) is willing to watch kids and risk exposure to the virus from our family; and d) we can afford? Even at $15/hour, which I assume would be the bare minimum for a college student, that's $600 per week (8 hrs/day, 5 days/week).

Please explain how you plan to make this work for your family. Are you already doing searches, putting out feelers? Would you hire via a phone interview?? I am having a hard time with the entire idea, but it may be one of our only options.

$600 a week....how many kids do you have? How much does the camp you have them signed up for cost? I thought most full day camps were at least $300/week per kid? And since you say "children" I'm assuming you have at least two...so wouldn't you be paying at least $600/week anyway?

Nope. Camps are $150-200 per week, per child. Some of the more expensive camps are $300-400 but we weren't planning on doing those.

Hmmm...I googled and found this page
https://www.washingtonparent.com/guides/guide-camp.php

I didn't click on EVERY camp on their list, but I clicked on a lot of them and every single one that I clicked on was $300+per week. Do you live outside the DC area? If you live in an area where you can get quality full day summer camp for $150/week, I'm going to guess that college kids aren't asking for $15/hr.

[Anonymous]

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There are always tons of college sitters available in the Summer and it'll be more so this year with Covid. Look, if you're going to hire care, there's nothing you can 100% do to prevent Covid. It is what it is.

[Anonymous]

My college students don’t want to nanny. They want jobs that contribute to their resume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard this solution proposed several times. This seems to be the solution to summer for a lot of working parents, if camps are closed and offices are open.

But how are we supposed to find some random college kid that: a) we can trust enough to leave our young children with for hours each day... during a pandemic; b) is not an asymptomatic carrier; c) is willing to watch kids and risk exposure to the virus from our family; and d) we can afford? Even at $15/hour, which I assume would be the bare minimum for a college student, that's $600 per week (8 hrs/day, 5 days/week).

Please explain how you plan to make this work for your family. Are you already doing searches, putting out feelers? Would you hire via a phone interview?? I am having a hard time with the entire idea, but it may be one of our only options.

$600 a week....how many kids do you have? How much does the camp you have them signed up for cost? I thought most full day camps were at least $300/week per kid? And since you say "children" I'm assuming you have at least two...so wouldn't you be paying at least $600/week anyway?

Nope. Camps are $150-200 per week, per child. Some of the more expensive camps are $300-400 but we weren't planning on doing those.

Hmmm...I googled and found this page
https://www.washingtonparent.com/guides/guide-camp.php

I didn't click on EVERY camp on their list, but I clicked on a lot of them and every single one that I clicked on was $300+per week. Do you live outside the DC area? If you live in an area where you can get quality full day summer camp for $150/week, I'm going to guess that college kids aren't asking for $15/hr.

My summer camp that we were scheduled for is $150/week in the DC area including beforecare and aftercare. Two kids, so $300/week. There's also the park district camp, which serves a lot of kids, and varies by type of camp but is mostly under $100/week including beforecare and aftercare, and has additionally-reduced rates for low-income DC residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- How were you normally going to find summer care that is less than that? I'm a teacher and hopefully I can find a summer nanny job. My own kid is old enough to be alone by himself and I need the money.

Camps are $150-200/week per child. Max $400/week. College student will run $600-800/week ($15-20 per hour).

Camps that are $150-200 per week are definitely on the low end of price range for camps in Montgomery County. There are many that are significantly more than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- How were you normally going to find summer care that is less than that? I'm a teacher and hopefully I can find a summer nanny job. My own kid is old enough to be alone by himself and I need the money.

Camps are $150-200/week per child. Max $400/week. College student will run $600-800/week ($15-20 per hour).

Including after care? This seems really cheap.

It doesn't see cheap to me. I pay $800 for 2 weeks of sleep away camp and $175-$250 for camp here and the $250 camp is not the norm, maybe 1 special camp.

Maybe your camps are overpriced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have heard this solution proposed several times. This seems to be the solution to summer for a lot of working parents, if camps are closed and offices are open.

But how are we supposed to find some random college kid that: a) we can trust enough to leave our young children with for hours each day... during a pandemic; b) is not an asymptomatic carrier; c) is willing to watch kids and risk exposure to the virus from our family; and d) we can afford? Even at $15/hour, which I assume would be the bare minimum for a college student, that's $600 per week (8 hrs/day, 5 days/week).

Please explain how you plan to make this work for your family. Are you already doing searches, putting out feelers? Would you hire via a phone interview?? I am having a hard time with the entire idea, but it may be one of our only options.

Neighbor kid, friend of the family, kid of one of your coworkers and/or referral from a house of worship. If you call a nearby house of worship you will be referred to someone who lives local.

Meet them in person, 6 feet away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My college students don’t want to nanny. They want jobs that contribute to their resume.

The resume contributing jobs probably won't exist this summer.

The kids that want cash for their car payment and for their gas will nanny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- How were you normally going to find summer care that is less than that? I'm a teacher and hopefully I can find a summer nanny job. My own kid is old enough to be alone by himself and I need the money.

Camps are $150-200/week per child. Max $400/week. College student will run $600-800/week ($15-20 per hour).

Uh, where is this? Not in the "DC" that is "DCUrbanMom"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP- How were you normally going to find summer care that is less than that? I'm a teacher and hopefully I can find a summer nanny job. My own kid is old enough to be alone by himself and I need the money.

Camps are $150-200/week per child. Max $400/week. College student will run $600-800/week ($15-20 per hour).

Including after care? This seems really cheap.

It doesn't see cheap to me. I pay $800 for 2 weeks of sleep away camp and $175-$250 for camp here and the $250 camp is not the norm, maybe 1 special camp.

Maybe your camps are overpriced.

Maybe you live in central Wisconsin? Or at least Assburn / Urbana / Charles County??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My college students don’t want to nanny. They want jobs that contribute to their resume.

The resume contributing jobs probably won't exist this summer.

The kids that want cash for their car payment and for their gas will nanny.

Not true. One just applied for a job providing customer service to people needing help with unemployment applications. It’s remote, pays well, and can be dressed up nicely on a resume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My college students don’t want to nanny. They want jobs that contribute to their resume.

The resume contributing jobs probably won't exist this summer.

The kids that want cash for their car payment and for their gas will nanny.

I'm hoping this is the case, because I'm expecting that a lot of parents in my neighborhood would give the above answer. I'd take a high school kid, though.

[Anonymous]

It's challenging- my DD (college kid) is supposed to nanny this summer and one of the kids has severe asthma- she is social distancing but it's daunting to think she could potentially bring it into their house. She is also wondering how she'll keep the kids busy all summer- they usually have a pool to go to and she takes them on day trips/outings, library, etc... It's a wonderful summer for the kids and she enjoys it while making good $$.
As far as finding a summer nanny- post on Nextdoor as someone suggested. The college kids are going to need to make money.