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[quote=Anonymous]I think going from full time nanny to no help at all will be too drastic.

My DH works regular office hours and I work from home during school hours (I do contract work so my work is project based and workload varies a lot) - we do not use aftercare. I am the ‘default’ parent and pick them up at 3pm from school. My kids are 1st and 3rd graders so older than yours, and I am able to work upstairs when they are home downstairs.

The downside of this set up is that I have the 3pm pickup but rest of business world is still working - a lot of times I need to peel myself from the computer and rush over to pick them up and take them to activities, while work emails are still flying around and people are waiting for responses so I am stressed out and snarky the whole time.  My only saving grace is that my workload varies so I have slow periods when I don’t have work.

If I were you, I’d put them in aftercare - you can pick them up early if you want to, but you’d always have backup when you can’t. [/quote]

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