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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dh and I are nurses and we work all kids of crazy shifts.  Our "village" is other nurses and staff who also do this.  We welcome watching  each others kids and they watch ours when overtime is suddenly demanded or storms keep us for double shifts, etc. We think  nothing of our colleagues kids being dropped at our house with a change of clothes.

I don't get why other professions/neighbors/whatever  don't jump in to form 'pools" to help each other out. [/quote]

Huh?  Neighbors do help each other out, as many on this thread have described.  Maybe other shift workers do.  Probably many military families do.  But many of us work in "typical" enough professions that we're not drawn together in this way, i.e., we don't often need childcare for the situations you describe, because they almost never happen to us.  That's why.[/quote]

I don't quite agree with this poster who responded  I read endless threads on DCUM by families who need after-school  care for a couple of hours.  In our "neighborhood/ village," kids who are latchkey just play at other kids houses for an  hour or two or do their homework together. Sometimes it works the other way on weekends when parents need to get out for an errand or two and they watch the others' kids or tag along to the kids' soccer practice.  It all evens out and we know we can count on each other.  I don't thnk there is a whole lotta folks these days who work 9-5 without flexibility. [b]I know my kids' friends come over 4-5pm  most days to get their homework done -- so what?  Then my kids go over to their house on a weekend night for a couple of hours if DH and I want a quick meal to ourselves on a Sat night. [/b]No one is talking beyond 2 hours  here in any of these situations. We are white collar office workers. [/quote]

If this is actually happening to you with elementary school kids, you have a very unusual situation.  [/quote]

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