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[quote=Anonymous]DS is 3.  He has had the same nanny since he was 4 months old, when I went back to work.  At the time, we had planned to put him in daycare, but we didn't get off the waitlist at any convenient centers, so we decided to just hire a nanny for a year.  Our income is comfortable by most measures (but impoverished by DCUM standards), so having a nanny required pretty big budget cuts.  We were able to make it work without going into debt.

Our nanny turned out to be fabulous.  She is amazing with our son.  We didn't want to pull him into a full-time daycare at ages 1 or 2, so each year we extended her contract by another year.  This past year, we enrolled him in a part-time morning preschool (three days a week), though we pay the nanny for the same hours because she takes him there and picks him up.

We've gotten off a waitlist for a good local daycare for the fall.  Our son loves being around other kids, and it really would be a huge relief for our budget (we could put much of the savings into a 529 account, for example).  But we are so torn about letting our nanny go.  First, we feel an incredibly loyalty to her.  I'm sure she'd find a new job quickly, but I'd still feel absolutely terrible.  Second, our son really is attached to her and always is so happy to see her.  I worry about dropping him into a daycare center with teachers who don't seem to be nearly as caring.  Then again, he eventually will need to go to kindergarten.

Anyone else face this choice?  I'd just love to hear how you thought about it. [/quote]

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