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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a question for the outsourcing folks. Is it outsourcing to allow grandparents to watch kids? Is it outsourcing to send them to prek? What precisely constitutes “outsourcing”? Is it any care/enrichment that you do not personally provide? Does a working parent outsource to the SAH parent, in those setups? Just curious where this concept came from. [/quote]

I am not an “outsourcing” person.  IMO, there are some lovely and brilliant people who should continue to work curing cancer and should also have children, even if it takes 14 hours to do a HIPEC, and they have to have a nanny put their kids to bed some nights.

Anyway, I have read these forums long enough that I can answer most of these questions.  Having grandparents provide full time childcare does count as outsourcing, but sending kids to grandparents for the weekend does not.  PreK does not count as outsourcing.  Oddly enough, daycare also does not count as outsourcing and neither does aftercare or any school or activities that you take your children to.  Having a nanny does count as outsourcing.  Having a housekeeper that comes more frequently than twice a month counts as outsourcing.  So does having someone else do your lawn/landscaping.

Basically, “outsourcing” is using anything that most people don’t have access to.

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