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[quote=Anonymous]Our nanny of several years is taking a month-long trip for the month of February, and then retiring. We have two kids, 5 & 3. Long story short, she agreed to push back her retirement a few months work for us through June, so we had secured back-up care for the month of February. Our back-up care, who is someone the kids know and love, fell through, so now we are scrambling. Our 3YO attends morning-only preschool for 2 mornings per week and our 5YO is in kindergarten.

We're considering two options:

Option 1) Put 3YO in daycare, 5YO goes to aftercare
Pros-- flexibility with scheduling, reliability, and it would be our 3YO's only change in care before starting junior K at our older child's school in fall 2021. plus, if it wasn't working out after a month, our nanny would be willing to step back in 
Cons-- 3YO would potentially be sick more frequently, especially having him start right in the middle of cold & flu season (he has asthma and sometimes colds are a big deal); he would need to leave his morning preschool mid-semester

Option 2) 5YO goes to aftercare, 3YO joins nanny share
Pros-- 3YO finishes semester at preschool, and is potentially sick less frequently
Cons-- there are some logistical challenges that we will need to compromise on with the other host family, and also, this would be a temporary solution, with the share ending in the fall, at which point we would send our 3YO to daycare for one year - so that would be two changes in care

WWYD? Cost is roughly equivalent for the nanny share and daycare.

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