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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The suggestion to nanny share Is a good one. [b]Or drop one set if lessons to let you afford it.[/b] If the after care really is not good for your kid (each kid is different) then you need to find the money to pay a rate that can actually find you someone. [/quote]

I'm a pp here from earlier in the thread (the one who mentioned that a 13 year old sitter wouldn't be able to drive OP's kid to karate and music classes.)

I guess this (what I bolded) is what bothers me about OP.   Obviously it's not a situation where  she "can't afford" more because every penny she earns is going to put food on the table--she just chooses to spend money on other things and wants to cheap on childcare.   My guess is there are many areas in her budget that she could cut back on in order to pay a decent childcare wage, but [b]instead she wants her childcare provider to just accept meager wages[/b].[/quote]

What I don't understand are posters like you who get so up in arms about this.  If the rate is so cheap, then OP just simply won't be able to find anybody for that rate.  She will either need to make more room in her budget or find an alternative? Hello - simple Economics 101.[/quote]

Except with domestic labor, there is always someone willing to work for nothing. Doesn't make the wage right. You can (and people do) post a job offering $150/week for 50 hours, and unfortunately will probably find someone. So yes, OP could post this job for $9/hour and she would find someone. Will they be a quality caregiver? Maybe, but most likely not. It doesn't change the fact that its insulting to me and what I do that someone values it at $9/hour. Its insulting when anyone undervalues your work. And like I said, you brush it off the first, second, and fiftieth time, but at some point you get fed up. I made $9/hour scooping ice cream at 14, ten years ago. If you don't think the care of your child is worth more than that, you're damn right I take offense to that. [/quote]

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