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[quote=Anonymous]Here are the things we've found. We don't have a nanny. We now live in the Midwest and no one I know has nannies for elementary school kids.

- Stagger your work schedule with your spouse. I work early (7-4), he works late (8:30-5:30). We have demanding, yet flexible jobs. He WFH 3 days a week, I only WFH when needed (but can whenever I need to).

- We do after care at the school. We've been able to avoid before care with my DH working a later schedule. The bus comes to our neighborhood, so he just has to put her on the bus and not battle the car line. This fall, she will actually bus home 2x a week so we can get her to activities on time.

- Aftercare has "no school days" where they can provide child care, but they are at a different school and we have to pay for them, so we've not done that. Well, we did it once and DD hated it because she didn't know anyone. We WFH on no school days and stagger our schedules

- We will do a childcare swap with another working parent. I take their kid one day, they take my kid the next day. [/quote]

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