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[quote=Anonymous]If your kids preschool is part-time, mornings only, and closed for winter break, spring break, summer break, religious holidays, snow days, and staff development days, then really look at the math & logistics of not having a nanny available to cover for you on those mornings. Every time your preschool is closed, if you don't have a nanny on retainer or an au pair on hand, you or your husband will have to take the morning off. We have our 3 year old in a preschool attached to a real school, so they're not open year round and there are so many days off that I could use up all my leave & then some just covering for days when preschool is not in session. Ask yourself if you really can afford to not have coverage in the mornings.

In terms of how to afford both, a lot of part time preschools are super cheap - I'm surprised it's eating into your budget so much that you're thinking of dropping your awesome nanny. Some are just 3k/year. The local rec centers off part time preschool even at 1.5k/year. There are also co-op preschools, which I realize also eat into your leave, but some have the option of helping out with things outside of the classroom instead and if you split it evenly with your husband, perhaps you'd only need to take a half day even other month to accommodate a co-op and that's less leave than if you had to cover every preschool closing without a nanny. [/quote]

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