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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a couple of different arguments going ton here.

The first is whether it is "okay" for a child to be in care for 12 hours a day.  I happen to think it's fine, or at the very least unavoidable for a lot of families.

The other is whether it is fair to your child to deny them the chance to come home after school.  This is where I think OP is dead wrong.  Yes, many kids go to aftercare but get picked up by 6:30 at the absolute latest.  OP is talking about making her kids stay out of the house until much later, every day, just because she's afraid she can't trust a fully verbal non special needs child with a nanny.

That's not okay.  If you can't help but work that late, please be fair to your child and hire an au pair or nanny so that the child can do their homework, eat dinner, take a bath, and otherwise enjoy their life a bit. [/quote]

Actually, I don't think anyone was arguing about the 12 hours of care. It was the 12 hours out of the house, and the point the if the OP was so scared of nannies, then she needs to reconsider working. It wasn't that, in general, it was bad that a parent wasn't with the child for 12 hours, but that in this particular case, it was the parent who seemed to believe no one else is trustworthy, and so there is no other solution.[/quote]

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