When do you think daycare/preschools are going to open in MD?

[Anonymous]

This is insane. Maryland has very tight restrictions on informal child care arrangements, so it's not like you can hire a babysitter for a month. What do they expect people to do that need to work and have children? Do they really think its a good idea to force all of these people to send their kids to interact with a bunch of other kids that are at high-risk to contract COVID?

All I want to do is a hire a babysitter/nanny to watch my kids in his/her own home until this passes.

[Anonymous]

I hired a babysitter part time until August. After that I have zero idea how to manage without PreK/daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hired a babysitter part time until August. After that I have zero idea how to manage without PreK/daycare.

PP here.

What sort of arrangement do you have? Is the babysitter coming to you, or are you bringing the kids there?

If you're sending the kids out, then technically the babysitter is regulated as a daycare, assuming you are sending them for more than 20 hours per month.

If you're bringing her in, then you've just hired a nanny and should be paying workers comp and FICA taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is insane. Maryland has very tight restrictions on informal child care arrangements, so it's not like you can hire a babysitter for a month. What do they expect people to do that need to work and have children? Do they really think its a good idea to force all of these people to send their kids to interact with a bunch of other kids that are at high-risk to contract COVID?

All I want to do is a hire a babysitter/nanny to watch my kids in his/her own home until this passes.

What MD law precludes you from hiring a babysitter for a month?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is insane. Maryland has very tight restrictions on informal child care arrangements, so it's not like you can hire a babysitter for a month. What do they expect people to do that need to work and have children? Do they really think its a good idea to force all of these people to send their kids to interact with a bunch of other kids that are at high-risk to contract COVID?

All I want to do is a hire a babysitter/nanny to watch my kids in his/her own home until this passes.

What MD law precludes you from hiring a babysitter for a month?

If you're: 1) bringing your kids to another location, 2) paying the provider, and 3) have regular care and/or more than 20 hours/month, then the provider falls under the child care licensing regulations (as opposed to the "informal" care allowances for babysitters).

If the sitter comes to you, then you've just hired a nanny, which is fine, except that then you're supposed to treat them like an employee and pay workers comp and FICA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is insane. Maryland has very tight restrictions on informal child care arrangements, so it's not like you can hire a babysitter for a month. What do they expect people to do that need to work and have children? Do they really think its a good idea to force all of these people to send their kids to interact with a bunch of other kids that are at high-risk to contract COVID?

All I want to do is a hire a babysitter/nanny to watch my kids in his/her own home until this passes.

What MD law precludes you from hiring a babysitter for a month?

If you're: 1) bringing your kids to another location, 2) paying the provider, and 3) have regular care and/or more than 20 hours/month, then the provider falls under the child care licensing regulations (as opposed to the "informal" care allowances for babysitters).

If the sitter comes to you, then you've just hired a nanny, which is fine, except that then you're supposed to treat them like an employee and pay workers comp and FICA.

+1. Good summary, although I doubt anyone is keeping tabs on this.

My guess is September will be the earliest things open, only to be shit down again two months later when cases spike.

[Anonymous]

Let’s gooooo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There will be rioting in the streets if they open sooner than September

?????

!!!!!!

There will be serious rioting in the streets if they don’t open up.

(Probably not though, because all the parents who would be rioting are all too exhausted from distance learning/distance camp/16 hr work days)