Has anyone ever done this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You might consider being more of a last minute service for cancelled school days.

If you talked to families in your area and were able/willing to supervise elementary kids home from school due to break (1-2 days, not a full week), weather and/or illness, I could see it working. BUT! Your kids would need to be packed up and ready to go every morning by 6 am while you wait to see if anyone calls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You might consider being more of a last minute service for cancelled school days.

If you talked to families in your area and were able/willing to supervise elementary kids home from school due to break (1-2 days, not a full week), weather and/or illness, I could see it working. BUT! Your kids would need to be packed up and ready to go every morning by 6 am while you wait to see if anyone calls.

Not necessarily. I assume if she went this route the parents would drop the kid at her house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You might consider being more of a last minute service for cancelled school days.

If you talked to families in your area and were able/willing to supervise elementary kids home from school due to break (1-2 days, not a full week), weather and/or illness, I could see it working. BUT! Your kids would need to be packed up and ready to go every morning by 6 am while you wait to see if anyone calls.

Not necessarily. I assume if she went this route the parents would drop the kid at her house.

This is a good idea.
Or even just other "occasional" sitting. I was a SAHM that sometimes needed sitting--like when my older child had a field trip I wanted to chaperone, so I needed someone to watch my younger child. Or If I had a doctor/dentist appointment and couldn't bring my kids along.

[Anonymous]

People will hire you, but don't expect top pay.

[Anonymous]

If it was just the baby, yes. But not the baby plus preschooler. A preschooler demands a different type of attention and activity , and I wouldn't want to have my baby's schedule centered around your older kid.

We used.to have a nanny with a DS a month older than our DD. It worked out well until they were about 3.5 and it was too much for the nanny because she wanted to enroll her kid in a different part time preschool.