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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Newsflash: Most parents put them in a financial bind for the early childhood years to pay a nanny.  We sacrifice retirement savings, college savings, and other important financial priorities to provide expensive childcare for our kids.  Some of us even go into debt (credit card and otherwise) to pay for childcare.  Most of us are not millionaires.

It is worth it, but we can only do it knowing IT IS A TEMPORARY SITUATION.  We plan on being cash poor for a few years, but then making it up later after we don't have to pay for a nanny anymore.

So, that is why the majority of us switch to school aftercare or part-time babysitters as soon as our kids are in Kindergarten.  By that point we may have paid over $200,000 in early childcare costs.  It has to stop at some point so we can then focus on paying for our kids' college educations.

OP- it's probably time for you to move to a new young family.[/quote]

This is a reality for us.  We love our nanny (will be 6 years this fall), but we cannot afford to keep her when the oldest starts FT kindergarten.  I am not looking forward to us parting ways.  If money were not an issue, I'd keep her until the kids left for college.[/quote]

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