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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sorry, but sah with babies and toddlers is absolutely harder than sah with ES and older kids. Are you kidding? Sah with babies and toddlers are constant feeding/diaper changing/potty training/educating/dealing with tantrums/dealing with mess and spit up plus the groceries/laundry/cooking/errands with kids in tow! As a sah parent of an older kid you get the kids it the door (but they can dress themselves and brush their teeth and find their library book and maybe even make their lunch) and then you have hours of freedom! Then you pick them up and drive them to a class or sport where another teacher or coach is in charge of them.

I was a sah and now that my kids are in school I work and it is SO much easier now than it was when I was home with them as babies. Hands down.[/quote]

You're missing the whole point. It may be easier on you now, but it's more important for kids in elementary school, middle school and high school to have their parents present than babies and toddlers. [b]Your role as a parent becomes much more complex and important the older they get. I'm okay having a daycare teacher help potty train, not so okay having an au pair help navigate middle school homework and social problems. [/b]In addition, you can drop kids off at daycare and pick them up at the same place after 10 hours when they're babies and toddlers. Not so much when they're elementary, middle and high schoolers. That's when their schedule dictates yours.[/quote]

this is so well said.[/quote]

Why do you think an AuPair is navigating social problems?  That is a very strange notion. What role exactly do you think APs and nannies fulfill? My children had problems in school, I'd save the review of homework until I got home, but school has always come easy for them. I couldn't even help my 14yr old with his homework if I wanted to. He took Cryptography this year. Hes mathematically brilliant and was smoking me my age 11.

My AP makes sure they stay on task, do their chores, and drives them places and makes sure they don't kill each other.

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