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[quote=Anonymous]There are a few different ways to make this work. Legally, you will just be babysitting another child in your home. I have read the regs in every municipality in the city, but for the ones I have read, watching one non-relative child does not make you a home daycare provider. Since this is a service you provide in your own home while also tending to your own personal affairs, you likely will be a service provider and the other family will be your client - not your legal employer. That has tax implications for both parties. For marketing purposes, you can describe as similar to a nanny share except you're also the other mom. My neighborhood listserve gets a lot of this and people are generally enticed by the idea of having a nanny at $8-9/hr.

Some practical considerations to providing a service but only having one consistent client - you'll be able to tailor your care more to that family than a daycare could, but you'll also not be their employee so they can't give as much detailed instruction. You will be expected to know how to provide the service - which surely you do, but the sensitivities of the other family expecting nanny-level care yet you're supposed to be an equal decided can get complicated

One alternative to what you propose is to actually set yourself up as a proper licensed in-home provider and limit your load to two other children - or if you really want to go for the niche market, set yourself up as a back-up daycare for the neighborhood. One woman in my neighborhood has done this and her business has really taken off. Your peek demand days will be school holidays that are not federal holidays and summer. You can close when it doesn't suit your family to be open. It's more work but your role, but legally and in practical day-to-day relations with the client parents, will be less murky. [/quote]

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