Child care post-nanny / day care

[Anonymous]

Once your kids are in elementary school, what do you do for child care? Having a full time nanny doesn't make sense but the kids have so many non-holiday days off of school.

Who watches your kids on those days?

Summer I assume people mostly do camp. Does anyone try to get child care like a nanny just for the summer months? Not sure how much availability there is for that type of care.

I work from home so have some additional flexibility but I can't actively watch my kids during the day when I'm working.

[Anonymous]

Aftercare program offers a kids club on maybe 75% of those days. The rest one of us takes off work.

[Anonymous]

There are a ton of day camps that cover the random days during the school year that schools are closed.

[Anonymous]

Aftercare
Day camp
Grandparents
When they're older ES you can reliably WFH without having to hover over them
Take PTO

[Anonymous]

Public school kicked my butt when I was working with all the snow days, 2 hour delays, early releases, teacher work days, breaks and that doesn’t even include sick days and the million events during the middle of the work day.

People with big careers keep their nannies.

I scrambled so much.

I ended up staying home. I had another baby.

[Anonymous]

Yes, parents who can afford to maintain the stability will keep the nanny. It’s common sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, parents who can afford to maintain the stability will keep the nanny. It’s common sense.

What does the nanny do all day? Or do they hire a nanny for after school + summers only

[Anonymous]

Elem schools have extended day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, parents who can afford to maintain the stability will keep the nanny. It’s common sense.

What does the nanny do all day? Or do they hire a nanny for after school + summers only

There are some parents who have the means, that keep their nanny and nanny helps with drop off, pick up and in the day does errands, gets lunches ready for the next day, preps dinner etc. As the pp says, this is truly only for a certain subset that can afford it. Or also I see it more with people that have 3+ kids.

[Anonymous]

Our beloved nanny changed her hours once the kids were in elementary school. Nanny starts at 12, does grocery shopping and errands for the kids, their laundry and starts prepping dinner before she picks them up and shuttles them around to activities. She is also on call for school holidays and sick days.

We couldn’t get by without her. With sports practices, music lessons, play dates and tutoring, I think we need her more now than when the kids were babies!!

[Anonymous]

Agree on keeping the nanny. We kept a full time nanny until our oldest was entering 7th grade, and now we’re set with no care. We both have big jobs outside the home. Our kids can take public transportation and carpool, plus cook and do their own laundry, so it works well for us.

[Anonymous]

We never had a nanny, so once daycare ended we did aftercare at school (which covered all the early release days) and we split the other random days off. Our aftercare offers spring break and winter break camps (we don’t use them though). Camps for most of the summer plus some vacation weeks.

People do hire summer help (often a college student) to drive their kids to activities and keep them occupied.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We never had a nanny, so once daycare ended we did aftercare at school (which covered all the early release days) and we split the other random days off. Our aftercare offers spring break and winter break camps (we don’t use them though). Camps for most of the summer plus some vacation weeks.

People do hire summer help (often a college student) to drive their kids to activities and keep them occupied.

For these aftercare-type programs, are they available for drop-ins, so if there is a day off you could use it? Or do you have to sign up for the whole thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our beloved nanny changed her hours once the kids were in elementary school. Nanny starts at 12, does grocery shopping and errands for the kids, their laundry and starts prepping dinner before she picks them up and shuttles them around to activities. She is also on call for school holidays and sick days.

We couldn’t get by without her. With sports practices, music lessons, play dates and tutoring, I think we need her more now than when the kids were babies!!

I assume you cut her pay then? And she was okay with making less?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our beloved nanny changed her hours once the kids were in elementary school. Nanny starts at 12, does grocery shopping and errands for the kids, their laundry and starts prepping dinner before she picks them up and shuttles them around to activities. She is also on call for school holidays and sick days.

We couldn’t get by without her. With sports practices, music lessons, play dates and tutoring, I think we need her more now than when the kids were babies!!

I assume you cut her pay then? And she was okay with making less?

No, never cut her pay as I should have noted that we changed and not cut her hours. She now does 12 to 7 and Saturday night to keep her at 40. Nanny loves it!