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[quote=Anonymous]"I think it would be a bit ridiculous for the other family to make me pay for the time I'm not using it." "I'm liberal....but not into subsidizing another person's time"

I'm the PP you replied to. In my view you're looking at it wrong. I "pay" for Monday even though I only use the nanny 4 days a week. I do this because paying a weekly rate that amounted to only 4 days' worth of time would make it impossible to retain our nanny and much harder to find nannyshare families since I need most of the week, but not all of it. So I figured out the amt needed to help secure the childcare I wanted (same nanny, willing share partners) and divided backwards to calculate hours. I do not see me as bailing out the other family at all. I am reserving time that is not easily otherwise filled. It's hard to find someone for just 2 days a week. Also hard to find someone for 2 hours a day if you only need 6 hours. The other family and the nanny can't simply find someone else to plug the gap in the "non FT" sections you leave. So while you can certainly give it a shot to see if you can find someone OK with only letting you pay for sub-FT usage of a share slot, I know that in my experience that wouldn't have been somethign I'd be OK with. And if I found a family willing to do FT with me instead, I'd have been strongly inclined to try to switch to them since they would be helping shoulder a greater amt of a virtually fixed cost. It's not as if the nanny simply accepts $10 / hr when she only has kids from 1 family.

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