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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are 6 and 9 and here is our breakdown:

Piano @ $200/month = $4800/year
Soccer @ $400 per season x 2 seasons each = $1600/year
Childcare @ $1200/month = $14,400/year
Summer camps average $400/week x 2 for about 10 weeks = $8000/year

Total: $28,800

Next summer our oldest is doing sleepaway camp for the first time which will add about $2200 on top of the regular summer camp fees. Plus there is another activity we do as a drop-in roughly once every week or two which probably adds another $2k per year.[/quote]

If you’re spending $1200/month on childcare then you’re basically still in the childcare years. Most of us aren’t dropping that much once they start K. Many of us don’t need any childcare except summer and other school breaks.[/quote]

NP - most working families don’t need aftercare/drop-in care for their Kindergarteners?  Sure they do.  That’s not cheap around here, so the cost savings depends in part on how much a family was paying for daycare/preschool before.  For example, coming from a relatively inexpensive in-home setting, the cost savings for KAH or Bar-T isn’t as noticeable as it would be from a pricier center.

We had young elementary-aged kids in March 2020 and learned VERY quickly that we couldn’t capably work without childcare.  Most families in the same situation learned the same, at least the ones we know did.  We do have a few friends who, once schools opened back up, thought aftercare was superfluous, since they’d “managed” during the pandemic.  And then were the first ones to sign up for aftercare the next year, because, while expensive, it beats TV as babysitter by a mile.  [/quote]

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