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[quote=Anonymous]Unless one of you has a flexible job, you should really consider keeping the nanny if you can at all afford it or hiring another nanny for at least 40 hours a week. you can find part-time sitters to work these hours but what ends up happening is that there’s very high turnover and a lot of them are not that reliable because realistically anything that only takes three hours a day is not going to Be the center access that they organize their lives around. It’s going to be the thing that they cancel on or worse yet don’t show up to because one of the important things in their lives changed. Trust me, we have been down that route and we paid very well and we did not expect too much but we still had really high turnover and nanny hunting every 6 months Took a lot of time that would have been better spent focusing on my job. On top of the issues with reliability, you have to factor in that school is not reliable childcare even outside of a pandemic. in the last month we have had two days off for holidays, two days off for snow days, two different days when one of my kids was hone sick, and a teacher workday. Prior to that we had 2 1/2 weeks off over winter break. If you only have nanny care for a few hours a day, then you are going to constantly be devoting your working hours to figuring out what camp your kid is going to be in for the next significant break, and you will be constantly stuck trying to work from home and provide childcare during random snow days. Having a full-time nanny means that you have a base amount of hours covered, even if your kid spikes a fever overnight or it’s F-ing Columbus Day. We ended up right back where we started but with a nanny that we don’t like or trust as much as our original Nanny. We should have just kept her. Our setup is out nanny works 11-7. During the day she does the grocery shopping, does the kids laundry and household linens, and cooks (like making and freezing muffins for fast breakfasts on school mornings, making dinner on weeknights, etc.). She also is available for random errands like dropping something at the post office, she helped wrap christmas gifts, etc. She picks the kids up at 2:45 (mandatory during the pandemic, but pre-COVID, this gets them home half an hour sooner than riding the bus) so they have enough daylight to go play at the playground or ride bikes for a bit. Then she feeds everyone a snack, supervises homework and piano practice and makes sure they are bathed and in pjs before we finish work. Pre-COVID she also shuttled them to extracurriculars, which is huge because, with three kids, there are a LOT. Over Christmas break, she was flexible and shifted her hours to 10-6, which allowed DH and I to switch off who supervised kids while working for an hour so that we didn’t lose our jobs. Keeping the nanny is well worth it because neither of us would be able to succeed professionally if we were constantly having to cancel or show up late or work distracted by kids. Whatever we spend is more than made up for by the fact that we can continue to work at this level and even try for promotions, knowing that we have reliable childcare. [/quote]
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