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[quote=Anonymous]We’ve had a caregiver for the past 4 years. We have two kids in elementary school and one that will start in 2021. The preschooler goes to a church school 2 days a week but we want him go more since this will be his last year before kindergarten. The caregiver helps in the mornings and takes the older two the bus but has no afternoon responsibilities with all three. But she does help if we have to work late, travel for work, watches the kids during the summer and on snow days or half days.

In theory, we could put DS in full time daycare and pay $1,700 less per month (once our kids starting going to school, we didn’t want to bump her salary down), so we are paying her as she was taking care of two. The problem is, we won’t have the flexibility we have now if we “need something” but if DS starts going to school 4 x per week. She basically is only working about 20-25 hours per week.

My husband thinks putting DS in full time daycare is the best option. I crunched the numbers and when you factor in summer camp, we are talking about a $1k difference a month.

We are stretched financially but we aren’t really going without much. The extra money would be great for savings, a vacation (we never do that kind of stuff) or just knowing we have a little extra if we want something special.

The problem is, it won’t change his day to day at all but it will change mine. I will have to get all three out of the house by 7am and I still will end up getting into work a little late. This leaves us with little back up and I work in DC and the kids school isn’t close to home. It just adds another layer of complexity. DH is also not accessible during the day so again, it’s all going to fall on me. From my perspective, we’ve done it this long, so another year and a half won’t kill us until at three are in elementary. I already spend a lot of my extra time cooking, cleaning and taking care of things for the kids and make more than he does.

So what do you think?  [/quote]

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