Why is Part Time Care So Hard to Find?
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Anonymous
Not around here. I think in homes around here start in the 300s. |
Anonymous
| Look for a SAHM who needs extra cash. You need to find someone who isn't really working for money to live on. |
Anonymous
Sahms become sahms for the flexibility to be with their kids. They don’t want to be tied to YOUR kids’ schedule. |
Anonymous
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Not in this area with competing options (including Uber, Lyft, restaurants, retail, task rabbit, etc.) Nobody wants to battle dc traffic for three hours of pay.
Maybe if you live elsewhere without many options, especially if you are close to a military base and you can hire the unemployed or underemployed childless wife of a young enlisted soldier. But that population moves a lot, too. |
Anonymous
Some are looking for extra cash and don’t mind another kid 2 days a week. Nobody said YOU have to take the job. |
Anonymous
| We are in Moco but found a center that did PT for us when DD was 17 mos. We did have to pay for a full day but only had to pay for 10 days a month. We rotated mon/tues/ fri then weds/thurs the opposite week. I do shift work. I know it is no help to you because it too far but it was DeeDees place in Silver Spring. |
Anonymous
| I am a PT stay at home parent and PT speech therapist with a flexible job. I'd love to pick up more hours and trade child care with another family in the DC or Mt. Vernon area (job is in Mt. V). I volunteer for DCPS so have current background check and negative TB testing. We got lucky with our first child and traded child care with a neighbor, it was amazing. |
Anonymous
And they want you to put wear on tear on your car and pay for gas to drive their kids around and pick them up plus they want you to be bilingual and help them with their language homework. Oh, and maybe cook dinner and wash mom's nasty filthy breast pump parts too when she gets home. |
Anonymous
| Never take a nanny job that involves housekeeping. That is a housekeeping job. |
Anonymous
| Because people need full time pay. |
Anonymous
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Because they offer terrible hours and working conditions for low pay.
Case in point, on NextDoor someone wants a part time caretaker for three kids for two hours each night (roughly). The hours overlap with dinner hours and would involve someone commuting during what is already rush hour in my area (but they don't allow you to have a regular day job since they overlap with that). The person also posted a long laundry list of requirements and standards and things you'd have to help with. In this area, anyone who meets her standards can either: 1. Get a full time nanny job for 1-2 kids which is less kids, and it comes with benefits and OT if you want to work those hours. 2. If any qualified person wants this as a second job on top of something unrelated, there are better second jobs that don't require you to give up a critical window every weekday AND pay better than that. You can get compensated more driving Uber during those critical hours,and have flexibility. Or you can pick up better sitting jobs (less kids, block of more hours at a time, and more pay per hour) on care.com on your own time. |
Anonymous
| I feel like you should be able to find someone who is going to community college or attending college part time. Or maybe someone who has kids in school and needs a few hours but not full time - this was the case with our last nanny. Keep looking, OP. If you're not in any facebook parent groups, then get in them. Lots of nannies there. |