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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]
Can you do basic math? My kids are with nanny for a grand total of one to one point five hours a day[/quote]

How did you find a nanny who only wants to work 1.5 hours a day?  [/quote]

If you read original post, you would see she came a few hours before kids got home to do stuff around house, walk dogs, and errands.  
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Are we reading the same original post? OP wanted to know if it got harder when kids went to elementary school.

I posted that it was harder for me. When kids were in daycare, I only had to worry about sick days. Daycare doesn't have spring breaks, teacher work days and don't have so many events during the middle of the day. When my child started kindergarten, he had a ton of snow days, early dismissals, 2 hour delays, middle of the day events on top of the planned days off like teacher work days and breaks. It isn't so easy to find sporadic care.

We do know dual working families who keep FT nannies/housekeepers or au pairs. Families where a parent works from home or both parents have flex jobs could probably make it work with relative ease. If you have a full time job without much flexibility and can't telework, it is hard to get coverage for all that time off of school. We looked into white house nannies but just couldn't bring ourselves to leave our kids with a complete stranger. [/quote]

I was speaking of my original post about our nanny to which the question was posed.

I would agree if you are unwarranted lying to hire child care, one can't work outside the home.  Most people don't have this issue.[/quote]

Unwilling to hire[/quote]

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