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[quote=Anonymous]I have an amazing nanny, and a DD going to kindergarten next year and another DD, 2.  Thinking about going with work daycare for my younger DD, alternative would be preschool and keeping the nanny.  I am scared to switch, most because I am worried about  managing all of the complexities of aftercare and school holidays and summer and camp and also because older DD is super high strung and I am worried she may have difficulties with kindergarten and daycare after half day preschool.  By the time I pay for aftercare, daycare, summer care, the cost differential is there, but it's like $5-10k, not even close to the cost of care for both, but still significant.  And we have a truly awesome, reliable A+ nanny, which is hard to give up., not to mention the consistency of a single caregiver vs a diffuse network.  If she was mediocre this decision would be easier.  DH and I also travel a bit so having a nanny is great for the flexibility, but we only use it maybe 3-4 times a year and while we don't have family, do have a network of sitters we could probably call.

I'm wondering if others have been faced with this decision, and how it went to switch to daycare.  Are you happy you made the decision?  Did you go with a part time nanny?  Any advice?

Thank you so much.  I'm totally overthinking this and need to decide before we lose our opportunity to sign up for daycare.

The money difference is significant for us of course, although we could still save enough and life fine either way.  It would be more savings and probably nicer vacations we'd give up.
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