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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are right, OP - $20 an hour for two children is appropriate.  Your four year old will be in school less often than you think - it is shocking how many school holidays, teacher conference days and sick days a preschool/kindergarten has!!!  Plus the nanny, I assume, will now be doing at least the pick-ups from school with a four month old in tow.  Your four year old will still be wearing clothes, still need his laundry done and room cleaned, and still need to eat.

I honestly do not know why people (not you OP - you seem to get it) think that everything is so much easier once a child starts school.  I'd rather have two children home with me where I can control their schedules than the juggling that is involved with school pick-ups in the dead of winter.  [/quote]

Child gone for 6 or 7 hours vs. Having to spend 30 minutes picking them up from school .... hmmmmmm[/quote]

With a months old baby after the winter we had last year...  hmmmmmmmmm

Unless the four-year-old never has a school holiday to gets sick and needs to be home and can make his own meals and do his own laundry - the work load is basically the same if you are doing your job correctly.    [/quote]

SAHM here and I never saw a great reduction in work when my then three-year-old went to preschool and I had a baby at home.  It is really a pain getting them ready, snacks packed and in the car to get the older child to school at the assigned drop off time.  Nearly every day the baby's schedule would be disrupted by my preschooler's school schedule (falling asleep in the car and thus not getting his full morning nap, having to wake him from a nap to pick up older child, cutting nursing sessions short because we had to get into the car, etc.) And older child had more laundry after he started preschool than before - preschool is messy and potty schedules weren't strictly enforced.  The extra time I did have when older child was in school was 100% devoted to the baby.  [/quote]

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