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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. To clarify a few things:

- We usually pay 20/hr. And my kid is preschool aged so this is just childcare, no diapers (occasional accidents but not often), no housework, no meal prep. I feel like this is a really good rate. We basically pay whatever people charge— I’ve never encountered anyone who charged more than maybe $22/hr for a non-newborn. We also usually offer to pay transportation costs or will even provide transportation.

- At this point we don’t need full time care except in the summer, so unless we find a summer nanny (how do you do this) we’re more just looking for sitters or camp/drop-in care situations. This year we had 6 weeks of camp but I could not find anything for the last 3 weeks. A lot of camps don’t start until age 5 it seems. We can do the same camp again next year but then we’re in the same situation with needing around a month of care before school starts.

- We have friends! They don’t babysit (most have their own kids). I have one friend with HS and college age kids and asked if his DDs or any of their friends would be interested. We have used them occasionally but their lives are so full and variable at this point and it’s not a consistent solution. Definitely not something we could rely on. They are all heading back to school this fall so I feel like that option is disappearing too. We might get lucky and find one who wants to do a 1 month gig for us next summer but it’s impossible to plan that far ahead for something like this. They have no idea what their summer will look like.
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