SACC or SAHM in neighborhood

[Anonymous]

There’s a SAHM in the neighborhood who is interested in providing after care. Our children are close in age so they could play together. I am nervous about giving up my SACC spot but at the same time, SACC has been a bit of a chaotic environment for DC. DC gets home exhausted. Another advantage is that I don’t have to do pick up during rush hour. Would appreciate feedback.

[Anonymous]

Make sure you have a backup plan in the event she or her child is sick.

[Anonymous]

I'd have a serious talk with her about reliability. She can't flake out when it suits her. Otherwise, may be a good fit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Make sure you have a backup plan in the event she or her child is sick.

Would she be able to take care of your DC when schools are closed due to weather (and SACC is closed)? It might be a swap between the two.

[Anonymous]

Do the kids get along? How many years left were you planning on doing SACC? Will she watch them on teacher workdays? Will she take them to after school activities at the school? My school has lots of activities for the kids after second grade.

[Anonymous]

We did this before we got into sacc. It didn't work out and I had to work at home to figure it out. She was okay bit her child would say thin a like why is he here and leave. They are best friends now but day after day started to get to the other child about one month in.

[Anonymous]

Nannies with kids IMO can be unreliable - would not get a SAHM - at that age they all get sick so easily and it would be hard to find a replacement with last ,minute notice (as you would get).

[Anonymous]

Nannies with kids IMO can be unreliable - would not get a SAHM - at that age they all get sick so easily and it would be hard to find a replacement with last ,minute notice (as you would get).

[Anonymous]

I did this myself at one point, and I got sick of it pretty quickly. I had no flexibility for doctors' appointments or afterschool classes for my own kids, etc. As others have said, the kids also tire of one another. It seemed like a great idea at the time but did not work out in the end. Fortunately, it was always meant as a temporary solution, so I just stuck it out til the end.

If the SAHM isn't a professional daycare provider, she may well not know what she's getting into.

[Anonymous]

We did this temporarily and it worked out well. Really depends on how reliable your neighbor is. In our case it was only one day a week for the short Monday and the kids got along really well. We did it for one year until a SACC spot opened up. I'm not sure I would give up a SACC spot you already have, though - those wait lists can be really long.

[Anonymous]

Actually, what would be the tax implications? Would you be able to use your daycare flex plan? Also, is she registered to watch kids? If something horrible happened, what would the legal outcome be. Would this SAHM actually be paid under the table, and you are in a nanny tax situation? For the whole year you would go over what ever the minimum is to not deal with taxes.