Anonymous
06/25/2015 15:25
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
Anonymous wrote:It's an unlicensed in-home daycare, so don't waste your energy getting all offended that she's charging too little to be a real nanny. She's not a nanny. She watches kids in her home, without a license to do so. Out in Manassas, the going rate for in-home daycare would be about $40/day ($200/week). She's charging half that because she doesn't have a license, isn't inspected, and is probably out of compliance with a lot of things that matter to most parents. People in a bind use these kinds of childcare arrangements. It's not a good option, they know that, but it's better than locking the kid alone in the apartment while you go to work - which is what some families actually do when they can't afford childcare.
Some of the posts I see on this board, about how unimaginable real life is for most of America make me wonder - who are you? What kind of upbringing you had, that you never knew anyone in such situations. The posters who keep bringing up ESL seem just crazy xenophobic. This is a forum for DC. It's diverse. Plenty of people here have English as a second language. Plenty of DC residents live off less than $15/hr. Do you intentionally make yourself so sheltered so that you can ignore that reality and only see the pretty, glamorous parts?
I've had a variety of life experiences but I still think this is not so "normal" for the underprivileged that it cannot be discussed here.
You are saying if you have a 3 year old you have no other option than lock them up alone or use one of these places so we shouldn't be surprised? No, I don't think that is the case. You always have options. It's different if you have a 7 year old. Maybe locking up your 7 or 8 year old with a bowl of cereal is better than one of these places, maybe not. If you have a 3 year old or younger, you definitely cannot lock them up alone. CPS will be better for heavens sakes. Reach out to relatives. Go to a shelter. Depending on how this places looks to you upon inspection maybe it is ok or maybe not.
I think your post is really judgmental.
Anonymous
06/25/2015 15:15
Subject: Re:Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in very rural areas in the Midwest, single mother who sometimes qualified for food stamps and sometimes didn't. When I was very young and my parents were still together, she ran an unlicensed daycare out of our house, but I guarantee that she charged more than $20/day for unlimited hours, and the only reason she wasn't licensed was because she couldn't afford the fees. Once my parents were divorced, she had fewer choices, and she elected to have us latchkey or she had my grandmother or a teen there if she was going to be gone all afternoon into the evening. While the woman running that daycare may be a decent person, I'm a nanny who has been targeted by numerous scams, and every.single.one follows the same pattern. It's poor English, grammar and usage, indicative that someone either has no clue about the rules for writing English or that the used an online translator, an offer that seems too good to be true, and no way to verify anything without contacting the poster and getting sucked into it. Nope, I would bet it's either a scam or it isn't safe, and either way, I find it creepy. Less creepy than the people who want me to work for them for $20 a week, but still creepy.
This person... what is this person saying? All I got out of it is "It is creepy," and criticizing other people's English.
Anonymous
06/24/2015 16:39
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
I'm from Manassas. That is a super sketchy area.
Anonymous
06/24/2015 11:20
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
Anonymous wrote:It's an unlicensed in-home daycare, so don't waste your energy getting all offended that she's charging too little to be a real nanny. She's not a nanny. She watches kids in her home, without a license to do so. Out in Manassas, the going rate for in-home daycare would be about $40/day ($200/week). She's charging half that because she doesn't have a license, isn't inspected, and is probably out of compliance with a lot of things that matter to most parents. People in a bind use these kinds of childcare arrangements. It's not a good option, they know that, but it's better than locking the kid alone in the apartment while you go to work - which is what some families actually do when they can't afford childcare.
Some of the posts I see on this board, about how unimaginable real life is for most of America make me wonder - who are you? What kind of upbringing you had, that you never knew anyone in such situations. The posters who keep bringing up ESL seem just crazy xenophobic. This is a forum for DC. It's diverse. Plenty of people here have English as a second language. Plenty of DC residents live off less than $15/hr. Do you intentionally make yourself so sheltered so that you can ignore that reality and only see the pretty, glamorous parts?
Thank you! You said every thing I was thinking in such a clear manner. Seriously, where do some of you people come from??
Anonymous
06/24/2015 09:31
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
I don't see why this is a problem. That's the whole point of pooled childcare options vs. a private nanny.
According to her ad she sometimes charges $40 a day, so let's say she watches 3 children at $20/day and just one at $40/day.
That's $100 a day, for simple supervising kids playing like an aftercare program and she makes more than she could at McDonalds. Why get all offended? She isn't saying she will come to your house and be a nanny and create a learning curriculum and use her car to take your kid to museums in DC for $20/day. She is not competing with you.
According to her ad she sometimes charges $40 a day, so let's say she watches 3 children at $20/day and just one at $40/day.
That's $100 a day, for simple supervising kids playing like an aftercare program and she makes more than she could at McDonalds. Why get all offended? She isn't saying she will come to your house and be a nanny and create a learning curriculum and use her car to take your kid to museums in DC for $20/day. She is not competing with you.
Anonymous
06/24/2015 08:59
Subject: Re:Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
I grew up in very rural areas in the Midwest, single mother who sometimes qualified for food stamps and sometimes didn't. When I was very young and my parents were still together, she ran an unlicensed daycare out of our house, but I guarantee that she charged more than $20/day for unlimited hours, and the only reason she wasn't licensed was because she couldn't afford the fees. Once my parents were divorced, she had fewer choices, and she elected to have us latchkey or she had my grandmother or a teen there if she was going to be gone all afternoon into the evening. While the woman running that daycare may be a decent person, I'm a nanny who has been targeted by numerous scams, and every.single.one follows the same pattern. It's poor English, grammar and usage, indicative that someone either has no clue about the rules for writing English or that the used an online translator, an offer that seems too good to be true, and no way to verify anything without contacting the poster and getting sucked into it. Nope, I would bet it's either a scam or it isn't safe, and either way, I find it creepy. Less creepy than the people who want me to work for them for $20 a week, but still creepy.
Anonymous
06/24/2015 08:15
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
We needed last minute childcare last week for my 2 y.o. and an in-home provider that our friends use had space. She charged $30 a day. The very low price totally freaked me out as we usually pay much more for our nanny but DS had a great time. She did projects with the kids, played outside, he slept, ate, was safe and clean.
She is licensed but was probably over the number of kids she is supposed to have, given it was the week between school and camp.
She is licensed but was probably over the number of kids she is supposed to have, given it was the week between school and camp.
Anonymous
06/24/2015 04:51
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
It's an unlicensed in-home daycare, so don't waste your energy getting all offended that she's charging too little to be a real nanny. She's not a nanny. She watches kids in her home, without a license to do so. Out in Manassas, the going rate for in-home daycare would be about $40/day ($200/week). She's charging half that because she doesn't have a license, isn't inspected, and is probably out of compliance with a lot of things that matter to most parents. People in a bind use these kinds of childcare arrangements. It's not a good option, they know that, but it's better than locking the kid alone in the apartment while you go to work - which is what some families actually do when they can't afford childcare.
Some of the posts I see on this board, about how unimaginable real life is for most of America make me wonder - who are you? What kind of upbringing you had, that you never knew anyone in such situations. The posters who keep bringing up ESL seem just crazy xenophobic. This is a forum for DC. It's diverse. Plenty of people here have English as a second language. Plenty of DC residents live off less than $15/hr. Do you intentionally make yourself so sheltered so that you can ignore that reality and only see the pretty, glamorous parts?
Some of the posts I see on this board, about how unimaginable real life is for most of America make me wonder - who are you? What kind of upbringing you had, that you never knew anyone in such situations. The posters who keep bringing up ESL seem just crazy xenophobic. This is a forum for DC. It's diverse. Plenty of people here have English as a second language. Plenty of DC residents live off less than $15/hr. Do you intentionally make yourself so sheltered so that you can ignore that reality and only see the pretty, glamorous parts?
Anonymous
06/24/2015 04:18
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
You get what you pay for.
Anonymous
06/24/2015 01:58
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
These are the people that drive down nanny/childcare wages for everyone. This person may be one extreme end of the spectrum ($1/hr??) but there are many "childcare providers" along this continuum willing to "watch" kids for minimum wage or less. I personally know a single mom (friend of my MB; we go over for play dates) who admitted to me that the SAHM who watches her 3 year old son while she's at work charges only $3/hr! (I hate to say that it wasn't terribly surprising that as soon as his mom mentioned that cheap sitters name, the little boy nearly cried, saying he didn't want to go to her house that day!)
Anonymous
06/23/2015 21:01
Subject: Re:Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
Poor English, grammar, usage, definitely not a native speaker. Add in that the rates are outrageous, and this is just creepy.
Anonymous
06/23/2015 20:53
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)
Anonymous wrote:What do we think of this ad?
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/kid/5080508567.html
She will work 24/7 so I believe that is the rate for 24 hours.
Anonymous
06/23/2015 20:52
Subject: Will take of your child for $20/day (real)