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[quote=Anonymous]Hello,

We hire a nanny that we and our daughter like quite a lot. She's been with us for over a year and takes classes online and at a community college after work hours. I telecommute 3 days a week and go to the office 2 days a week. It looks like next semester she will need to take classes early in the morning on my telecommuting days (e.g. she wouldn't arrive til 10:30 when she normally starts at 8:30 to match my work schedule) and take lunch time classes on my office days... which means I would have to be away from the office for at least 2.5 hours when they expect me to be fully on site. I also have a new baby on the way due in a few weeks.
I asked her to see if she could take different classes or take those ones online... we're meeting with her adviser next week. But what would y'all do? How far would you go to accommodate your nanny's schedule? Like I said, we like her a lot but she's not Mary Poppins to the extent that we'd be willing to reorganize my entire work schedule around her classes. I feel horrible for telling her that her new class hours would be a deal-breaker, but I have obligations to my organization and one of the provisions of my telework agreement is that I would be ready to show up at the office on my offsite-days for any emergency meeting scheduled at the last minute - I can't possibly tell them "I can't come, our nanny is taking a class right now".

Has anyone else been in this situation? Obviously, I want her to succeed in her studies, but the #1 reason I hired a nanny in the first place is to have childcare customized to my schedule and not the other way around...
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