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[quote=Anonymous]I'm so bad at it. Always have been. I've never been happy with any childcare arrangement we've ever had, and I feel like we've wound up with subpar daycares and sitters that we then have to change because I try and try to find a better situation and I just can't find anything better. It's partly a budget thing as we are not rich, but we could also spend more than we do at times, but I really struggle to find better quality options and when I do they are always full and I never get off waitlists even when I follow up. Covid has obviously made this worse but it feels like everyone I know figures this out and I am still always patching it together.

My kid is 3 now and supposed to be in PK (public PK so we'll see, but that's the plan) this year so that will hopefully take care of our day to day, with aftercare. But I want to get better at figuring out childcare for school holidays, sitters for date nights, and next summer. We do not have any family we can rely on for any of it so we need to line it all up ourselves. We have flexible-is jobs and can take days off or WFH with DC for an odd day here and there, but that's it. And if schools close this year, I want to know what I'm doing as I look for childcare because right now I feel like I have no idea what I'd do.

So, experienced parents, do you have advice for me? Where do you find sitters? How do you handle needing childcare for just a few days here and there, or alternatively for just a few hours a week on an ongoing basis? When do you start looking for summer camps or other care in the summer and what are good resources? How do you find nanny shares for kids this age (do people do summer nanny shares for this age)? I feel really overwhelmed and Need to get on top of this situation. Tips and tricks, please! I feel like a dummy because everyone else seems to have this figured out but me.[/quote]

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