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[quote=Anonymous]Looking at several sample handbooks and feeling a little lost at getting ours started.  Some people seem very detailed, with things like very specific lists of who pays for what,  very specific schedules, every possible situation addressed in the book and others have shorter paragraphs for each section and yet seem to cover things well.  My head is spinning and I've got no idea which approach to take.  Did you all with very specific, detailed handbooks feel like the effort was worth it? Did the AP actually read it all?  Did you find it was necessary down the road?  Some of these seem to have a more negative feel for some reason- like a list of we pay for X, you pay for X, where others the family just says we pay for X.  In a way the second approach seems more positive because you haven't reminded them of all the little things you chose not to pay for (such as tampons- does that really need to be listed?) , but yet you did list what you are paying for. ON the other hand if your family did not list we are not paying for X, did you have confusion and APs that expected you to pay for things above what you listed?  Also, our AP will have childcare related duties while the children are not there such as laundry and room tidying.  I can't decide if I should say 1- 2:30 pm, laundry, room tidying, etc on the schedule, or say 1.5 hours of your choice to complete the laundry, etc.  Ugh. [/quote]

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