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[quote=Anonymous]We have two working parents and no childcare outside of school hours.  My kids are a little older than yours, but still in elementary school.  
We make it work- but I am in a very different income bracket than you appear to be.  
We had a series of part time people who we paid pretty well- but the quality was extremely uneven.  The best one left fairly quickly.  The weaker ones have quit or been fired.  I felt like I was spending an inordinate amount of time hiring and managing part time help- so DH and I rearranged our work schedules to cover the child care-- I start working at 6am, and am home at 4 to get kids off the bus and take them to after school activities.  DH does morning.
Even our better nannies were bad at household tasks, so I don't miss not having that assistance- but we do outsource a lot of stuff- groceries are delivered, house cleaners come once a week, yard work is outsourced, etc.   
We use camps for teacher workdays summer etc- which the kids love.
Are you thinking that you would be working while your kids were home in the afternoon?  If so- I wouldn't do that to them- i have to do it occasionally and it is just frustrating.  The only way to really keep kids from bothering me is to set them up with screens.   My kids play independently- but the level of interruption that you can tolerate when you are say making dinner, or doing laundry as compared to writing a brief?  no comparison.   
If I had the financial situation that you have- I would probably try and hire a full time household manager, who had a small part of her duties as child care/ driving kids.   
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