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[quote=Anonymous]I hear you OP. My child is older (2 when pandemic started, now 3) and trying to find space in the 2/3 or PK cohorts has been hellish. We finally (finally!) lucked into a spot at a 3 day a week PK that is a reasonable distance from our house (10 minute drive or 20 minute walk) and it's been a godsend. We even struggled to find a nanny because like you, we couldn't afford a full time nanny and the market for PTers is understandably smaller. We had a college student in the fall but she chose not to return to DC this spring so until we started in this PK this week, we had been without childcare basically since Thanksgiving.

It's particularly frustrating because I think people's understanding about it started wearing out in the fall and there's this attitude that you should have figured it out by now. But what people who don't have very young children don't understand is that the demand for childcare shot through the roof and the availability shrank because of diminished class sizes. And then same with the nanny market. It is HARD to find a nanny now. Plus those of us with small homes or apartments who are WFH are not very appealing to most nannies, who would understandably prefer to work in an environment where they get more separation from the parents.

Anyway, I am hoping the vaccine alleviates this and we only have to deal with maybe 6 more months of this. I'm in DC and we are praying the public schools have in person PK in the fall, which would help everyone by reducing the pressure on the daycares and private PKs, too. [/quote]

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