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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The one bit of advice we received is to not mentally count one any magical new wellspring of disposable income now that the daycare/home nanny days were over.

Aftercare, camps, playdate trade offs, vacation time. [/quote]

Definitely true! [/quote]

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Two early elementary kids in DCPS and no family in the area. All our child care help is paid. The combined cost of summer camp, after care (unless you're at a T1 school where this is no cost), and day-off camps for the two kids is very significant. Less than we were paying for daycare/nanny, but maybe not by much.

Even with all this, one parent absolutely experienced the career downshift a PP mentioned. We can't split dropoff and pickup (one parent does almost all of it) and there are also the unplanned things like kids getting sick or delayed starts/early dismissals.

The families we know with two full-time working parents both able to super-devote themselves to their career have au pairs or seemingly full-time nannies.

We live in Petworth and when our kids were in PK3 we used Casa Lala for day-off camps, it was one of the only places that took 3 and 4 year olds at that time and it was somewhere around $100/120 a day then. We knew several families who sent their preschoolers back to their old daycare for the days off, it seemed like a lot of daycares allowed this especially if a younger sibling was already there.[/quote]

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