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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White House nannies or similar.  You’ll pay through the nose, but people are available.[/quote]

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White House Nannie’s are expensive, though. I use Nanny Poppinz(they’re affordable)most of their caregivers have also been with WHN. Good luck![/quote]

This is a person who thinks paying someone $100 a DAY (for *how* many hours?) is a lot to pay for sick childcare, so this probably isn’t going to happen.[/quote]

OP here.  I literally do NOT live in the DC area.  I am from there but do not live there anymore.  I live several hours away in VA and my salary is not as high as someone in northern VA, nor are childcare costs as high.  The going rate for caring for a child at a babysitter's home (following THEIR schedule, not my child's), with their own children present and just babysitting...not a strong structured, licensed program is about $25-35 a day.  The person I found charges $50 a day or $15 an hour for short periods but I pay it because they are our back-up care and help us out a lot.

There is no one else that I have found that is willing to watch sick children besides a lady who lives 30 minutes out who does not speak any English; only Spanish and she charges $15 an hour. I do not speak any Spanish nor do my children and they are at ages where this would be very challenging so I haven't reached out to her.  I could google translate of course but my kids can't.

I have asked my husband to have a discussion with his supervisor about coming up with a stronger WFH plan.  I have arranged this back-up sick care, I am looking for a 2nd back-up sick care when this fellow is unavailable, and I have extra back-up care when the kids aren't sick (several neighbors) but NOT when they are sick.  I try to send them to school if they do not actively have fevers or are vomiting/gagging/really, really lethargic. I send them with masks and honestly, they go to school more than they should when they aren't feeling awesome. There's simply no other option.

I also have not gone over my leave.  I only have 3 days left of leave to get me through the end of June so that's not great.  Part of the issue is I had to use all my sick leave last year too because of sickness and quarantines and there was NO ONE willing at that time to watch sick kids, I mean NO ONE. I also had to use my sick leave to cover when my FIL suddenly died and we had to go out of town for the funeral (my husband is an only child so we had a lot to do and I had to be with him). There is zero bereavement leave at all. [/quote]

There’s lots of jerks in this thread, OP. There’s no real answer other than it sucks and you’re not alone. You’ve done everything right. Sometimes life is just hard/impossible.

It’s crazy making how many people act like back up care willing to take vomiting and feverish kids is a thing. 99% of parents take care of their kids when the kids are very ill. I don’t have a single friend who has back up sick care. It’s one thing to have a kid with the sniffles stay home with a college babysitter, neighbor, or grandparent. But cleaning up vomit and diahrea is not something you can outsource.[/quote]

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