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[quote=Anonymous]Made the switch to a nanny thinking it would be easier and now headed back to daycare. We have 3 as well (two in public and one that’s 18 months).

1) managing a nanny take a significant amount of time. Even an experienced one with many glowing recommendations. Daycare is easy, you drop off, you pay, no questions or decisions needed to be made. It was a heavy mental and time load.

2) the nanny must be comfortable watching a sick kid. You may think it’s a small virus but if she has other people in her house (kids, parents), she may not be as willing to come in.

3) you know when daycare is open/ closed for holidays well in advance. Our nanny had 3 weeks PTO (one week that lined up with our vacation) so we had to find coverage on those days. Also, the nanny also got sick. Do you want the virus your kid had to have come from the nanny who came in sick?

4) the cost kept seeming to grow. There were always extra classes or enrichment she wanted to do. We said no to a lot but realized most of the nanny families in the neighborhood did them so this was fun for her too.

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