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[quote=Anonymous]I already posted, but I'll add one more thing.  It's really tough to find reliable after-school care for middle schoolers.  Most people want morning hours, or full-time.  Also, most caregivers have a strong preference for cute little babies and toddlers, not tweens/teens that have their own opinions on what they should be doing.  We've found somebody, but I think it was like lightning striking, after two people that were awful and unreliable.

Obviously you can also do either after school clubs or latchkey, but I think that only works if you have a short commute or a kid that doesn't do sports or other activities like that.  Most of the after-school activities (practices, religious ed classes, etc.) start between 4 and 6, so you really need someone to drive them, unless you can be home reliably by 5 or 5:30.  That's the primary reason we still have a nanny.  I know some people also use uber or lyft for this, but that seems to me less than ideal as a regular practice.

This is something that totally did not occur to me when I had little ones, and naively thought that I'd only be paying for a nanny until they went off to school.

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