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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not really a safety net to have a nanny, they get sick, they have family emergencies, they need days off too. Daycare at least guarantees in advance what days they’ll be open and can have substitute teachers [/quote]

I'm sure everyone's experience differs, but it's been a safety net for us.  We did daycare for 2 years with our first child and then got a nanny after our second was born.  Kids still get sick, but definitely less than we experienced with daycare.  Nanny takes vacations, but they are planned well in advance and we can arrange time off, grandparent visits, etc. to cover nanny's time off.  The nanny occasionally has unplanned sick days, but they are far, far fewer than daycare sick days were for us.  Also, with two or more kids, the kids may not be sick at the same time, which can increase the number of sick kid days you need to cover with multiple kids.  We just had one kid sick and out of school for a week, and then our second kid caught the illness just as our first kid was getting better.  It would have been two weeks with a kid out of school/daycare, but our nanny covered all of it.

You need to make expectations clear with any nanny you hire, including whether you expect them to work when your kids are home sick.  If our kids are super sick (e.g., vomiting), we don't ask our nanny to come, but fevers, colds, etc. she still comes.[/quote]

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