Tell me about having kids at daycare pre-COVID but hiring a nanny during the pandemic

[Anonymous]

How did you find your nanny? How is it going? What precautions are you taking with having an outsider come into your home?

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same! also, anyone in DC having luck?

very curious.

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We hired one of DD's daycare teachers to do a nanny share with a neighbor's kid. She is only seeing our families, she drives here (no public transit), and washes her hands as soon as she gets here. Honestly, it's not ideal from a social distancing standpoint, but it's been amazing to get a full day of work in, and for DD to have a friend.

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We had a nanny for the baby and oldest at preschool. The nanny quit to collect unemployment and self isolate until a vaccine since she is older and her husband has serious risk factors. We have her a generous severance.
Hired dd's laid off preschool teacher. Everyone happy. Nanny doesn't go anywhere except groceries. I still go to the office so I'm probably more dangerous for her then the other way around. She's ok with that risk.

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Had a nanny share that we suspended. Then after 2 months we hired our nanny full time just for us. She’s single, and is fairly strict with social distancing—we are at similar comfort levels with our interactions. During the national emergency which should go on for months if not a year we have given her unlimited paid sick so she won’t fear making a decision to come to work sick. We also stipulate that if any of us gets sick with Coronavirus symptoms we won’t start mixing again until negative test or quarantine of a certain amount of days.

[Anonymous]

This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

Not a lot of people can afford nannies to begin with, so only a miniscule proportion of the population can do this. There are going to be a lot of out of work childcare providers which I think will keep price points about the same. I think you're going to have to be prepared to pay for a high-quality, experienced nanny or teacher. The demand for those will be really high. Especially those who could potentially home school. I'm thinking out of work early elementary/daycare providers for example. Or teachers who do not want to go back to school/teaching next year.

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Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

Not a lot of people can afford nannies to begin with, so only a miniscule proportion of the population can do this. There are going to be a lot of out of work childcare providers which I think will keep price points about the same. I think you're going to have to be prepared to pay for a high-quality, experienced nanny or teacher. The demand for those will be really high. Especially those who could potentially home school. I'm thinking out of work early elementary/daycare providers for example. Or teachers who do not want to go back to school/teaching next year.

This is going to be tough for a long time. I think there is going to be a proliferation of unregulated daycares.

[Anonymous]

Try hiring one of the preschool teacher. You already trust them. If daycare opens, teacher goes back to school and your kid back to daycare. Or hire your occasional babysitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

Not a lot of people can afford nannies to begin with, so only a miniscule proportion of the population can do this. There are going to be a lot of out of work childcare providers which I think will keep price points about the same. I think you're going to have to be prepared to pay for a high-quality, experienced nanny or teacher. The demand for those will be really high. Especially those who could potentially home school. I'm thinking out of work early elementary/daycare providers for example. Or teachers who do not want to go back to school/teaching next year.

If you want to hire an out of work childcare provider who was working legally, be prepared to pay considerably more than unemployment pays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

False. There are lots of college students desperate for work because their internships and summer jobs all got cancelled, and they aren’t on unemployment.

We work with a nanny agency for back up care and they’ve even been offering promotions trying to get people to use them. Does not suggest they are all that busy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

False. There are lots of college students desperate for work because their internships and summer jobs all got cancelled, and they aren’t on unemployment.

We work with a nanny agency for back up care and they’ve even been offering promotions trying to get people to use them. Does not suggest they are all that busy.

I think the market for college student and other "non-professional" nannies truly depends on where you live. Somewhat isolated college towns where students have chosen to stay in their apartments and military bases (where there are a lot of young wives of enlisted officers) tend to always have a good supply of options but other places, not so much.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a major trend for sure. Be prepared for nannies to charge accordingly, and to be harder to find.

Not a lot of people can afford nannies to begin with, so only a miniscule proportion of the population can do this. There are going to be a lot of out of work childcare providers which I think will keep price points about the same. I think you're going to have to be prepared to pay for a high-quality, experienced nanny or teacher. The demand for those will be really high. Especially those who could potentially home school. I'm thinking out of work early elementary/daycare providers for example. Or teachers who do not want to go back to school/teaching next year.

If you want to hire an out of work childcare provider who was working legally, be prepared to pay considerably more than unemployment pays.

I’m a full time daycare worker. I make 40k. In order to compensate for the insurance and retirement contributions I would be giving up, I would need about 47k. I can’t imagine most families could afford that.

[Anonymous]

I would think most of the daycare workers, etc. who want to nanny have been scooped up already. I know there's one out-of-work daycare worker who is watching two kids in my neighborhood and she started working for the family the day after her center closed.