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It may be a privilege to you but may not be to someone else who has to keep their house clean, fridge full, provide a room or space for your child and their things, pay increased utility bills and wear and tear on the house.  How are you doing to compensate them?  Are you offering 2 a month cleaning service?  Are you offering groceries for nanny and your child (and do they have the space to store it)?  What is your plan if you need longer hours?  Nanny and your child stay at their home and interfere with their family time?  And, you are wanting to drop off two kids at someone else house?  One, ok, but two, no way.  You are the issue as you are too demanding.  Are you offering to also split the cost of the nanny in 1/3's of you have two kids, they have one?  If you have two kids, you should pay 2/3 plus offer something for their housing.  I'd run too after talking to you.[/quote]

Please read the post correctly. I am not asking for a family to host two of my children in their house. That's absurd. The request is to do a share in another family's house with my one child and their one child. Having done MULTIPLE shares with a variety of families for each of my children, due to our past moves, I am quite experienced with the demands a share places on another family. it is also a privilege to not have to do pick up and drop off when childcare is in your own home. You clearly have no experience with the challenges of pick up and drop off or morning chaos when there is more than one child involved. When I've done childcare in my home, I get to get ready for the day with another person making sure my kid isn't throwing himself into something precarious. Or I can leave the minute the person arrives. When it's a share, there's a lot of prep to get ready for drop off and the travel time involved. That costs time and money. It's so strange that you seem to have no conception of this....

And, you make a lot of assumptions....interesting that you assume I'd expect them to feed my child...this is just confirming my suspicion that people in this city are insane. Obviously, my child comes with a prepared lunch. Presumably the nanny brings her food, too. These are not huge demands. I'm not putting a week's groceries in their fridge. In the past, when the cleaning became an issue, we asked the nanny to stay an extra half hour and both families split the cost of her time.

You seem to have had a very bad experience with childcare providers. That's too bad. Where I'm from, the families have a clear conversation about responsibilities. Yes, there are diapers and wipes and a change of clothes, but it's not like my child is living in their home full time.

You have provided me with deep insight into the bizzar-o world of DC childcare. Thanks! Also...maybe you're just trolling.[/quote]

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