Anonymous
Post 09/11/2019 15:46     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor just started 8th grade and we use her. DD is 7 and listens/obeys very well. She's an introvert with some anxiety so aftercare just wasn't working. We're a townhouse community and she lives 2 hours away. Her mom is a SAHM so if there's an issue we know she's right there. We only need an hour a day though, so that helps. We pay her $60 for the week.


She lives two hours away?!

And you really should raise that girl’s salary.


Probably that was supposed to be houses.
Anonymous
Post 09/11/2019 15:42     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is the hardest kind of job to fill and you have to think hard about the type of people who would want this job. Especially since you’re making them commute home at rush hour for a mere 1.5 to 2 hours of work. They’ll drop you the minute a better job comes along or something else—finals, etc come along.

And no sahm wants this job.

SAHMs who need money will do it. I know a couple who do/did it but it was a necessity for them.


Okay, but if you live in a decent neighborhood in the DC area (not even that fancy, just decent), how many SAHMs are that desperate for money? Usually the husbands have some okay job (again, not necessarily DCUM-great, but stable enough that the SAHM doesn't need to disrupt her day for 1.5 to 2 hours at 20 bucks an hour).
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2019 18:16     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:This is the hardest kind of job to fill and you have to think hard about the type of people who would want this job. Especially since you’re making them commute home at rush hour for a mere 1.5 to 2 hours of work. They’ll drop you the minute a better job comes along or something else—finals, etc come along.

And no sahm wants this job.

SAHMs who need money will do it. I know a couple who do/did it but it was a necessity for them.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2019 18:12     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:Our neighbor just started 8th grade and we use her. DD is 7 and listens/obeys very well. She's an introvert with some anxiety so aftercare just wasn't working. We're a townhouse community and she lives 2 hours away. Her mom is a SAHM so if there's an issue we know she's right there. We only need an hour a day though, so that helps. We pay her $60 for the week.


She lives two hours away?!

And you really should raise that girl’s salary.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2019 09:07     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Our neighbor just started 8th grade and we use her. DD is 7 and listens/obeys very well. She's an introvert with some anxiety so aftercare just wasn't working. We're a townhouse community and she lives 2 hours away. Her mom is a SAHM so if there's an issue we know she's right there. We only need an hour a day though, so that helps. We pay her $60 for the week.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2019 22:39     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
This is the hardest kind of job to fill and you have to think hard about the type of people who would want this job. Especially since you’re making them commute home at rush hour for a mere 1.5 to 2 hours of work. They’ll drop you the minute a better job comes along or something else—finals, etc come along.

And no sahm wants this job.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2019 22:32     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
I would look for a high school kid. Most SAHP's are home for their own kids. A few might do it for extra money. It would have to be really good money for me to agree and yours would have to come along to our activities which are daily. I've had people ask and its uncomfortable. They want to pay less than minimum wage and don't get its not in any way benefitting me and for $10-20 a day, it will cost me more to feed and care for your kid then I would earn. Worst are when they just want you to babysit for free.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2019 22:21     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I know of a few moms who have hired people for this. It's usually retired, older women that they have hired. It's expensive per hour and the person rarely lasts the whole school year before finding other work.


+1 My neighborhood listserv is full of people looking for this, often at the last minute, because the person has found something else to do. There's a reason parents keep their kids in aftercare. It isn't ideal, but it's reliable. (It's also the reason we kept our full-time nanny for so long....good part-time care is hard to find.)
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2019 21:19     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think your best bet is a mature high school student that lives very close by (walking/biking distance.) You might even want to split the job into two (one doing M/W/F and the other doing T/TH) so if one of them goes on vacation or is sick, the other one might be able to fill in.

Most SAHMs are not going to want to take this on. They stay home so they can care for their own kids, not someone else's. They stay home so they have the flexibility to sign their kid up for classes/sports/lessons/appointments any time after school. They aren't going to want to tell their own kid "No, you can't do the 4 o'clock ballet class because we need to stay home with Larla."

College students can be good, but if they are from out of the area and go "home" for breaks, you may need to find separate coverage for those times, as they often won't match up exactly with elementary school breaks.


Agree most other SAHMs would never agree to something like this.



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Anonymous
Post 09/08/2019 16:57     Subject: after school babysitter/nanny?
Anonymous wrote:I know of a few moms who have hired people for this. It's usually retired, older women that they have hired. It's expensive per hour and the person rarely lasts the whole school year before finding other work.


My kids are grown and I do this. For me, it’s not about the money or finding other work, it’s that the parents want to take advantage of our agreement. When the school announces it is closing, that does not mean I need to rearrange my day to provide all day care for your child.