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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We never did nanny/au pair yet.  But my third was born when the oldest went to K, so we never had three kids too young for school at once.  My husband is a teacher and handles summers.  So the economics of a nanny never worked out.

More than infant care, think about 3-4 middle schoolers, each with one practice and one game a week (all over the county).  That’s when things get tricky even if you make each kid pick one activity per season.  How will you handle it if Kid A has soccer at 6, Kid B has baseball at 6:30, and Kid C has soccer at 7, all in different places and Kid D is five and needs to be fed/asleep somehow?  [/quote]

This pp is correct.  We have 4 kids. When they were little both parents worked out of the house. We always found that having a nanny made much more sense than daycare.  There are so many days when the older kids had no school or half day or the little kids had a runny nose and wouldn't have been allowed at day care. When we had one in middle school and one in upper elementary we split duties in the evening. DH stayed home and got the younger kids in bed early while I shuttled the older kids to practices. I was better at talking to other parents and working out carpools so that if practices were on opposite ends of town we could make it all work. We never had a budget for any other household help when we had little kids (we did contribute to 401K and 529) but I would have LOVED to have someone clean the house 2x a month!!
 As the kids have gotten older it has gotten MUCH harder. We now have one in college out of state, one in high school and 2 in middle school. We now split driving duties in the evenings. What makes everything manageable is the DH and I both now work at home and have pretty flexible work schedules. So we are often sitting down to dinner at 4:30pm so that everyone is fed before evening activities start. [/quote]

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