Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And kid sick days and 1/2 days and teacher training days and holidays when kids are off but you are not?

We vacation Christmas, tgiving, and spring break. I have a great HS kid i can call in a pinch. She watched out kids for 5 weeks this summer. Even with an AuPair, our kids were still at camps in the summer 25hrs a week.

I do what the majority of the working population does. It's not that hard.

It's great you found a set of solutions that work for you. It would be nice if you toned down the glibness though. It IS that hard for some with respect to snow and sick days or other school breaks. Some of us are not able to time our vacations this way or don't have the job flexibility or nearby family etc when you get the call that your kid is sick and needs to be picked up. I think most of us who are in the program can't typically rely on the solutions that you and "most of the population" apparently can. It wasn't very kind of you to take that tone in response to an honest question or two.

You're reading too much into my response. No need to be defensive. My situation impacts you zero. I'm simply statung my facts. Overall life for me is easier without an AuPair and there are options other than AuPairs and Ive found those options better. When my kids were little i needed a professiinal nanny because logistics were hard amd consiatent professional childcare was crutial during the first 7 years of theit lives. Now they are older and coming from what I was accustomed to anf once I saw my alternatives, I decided the program was not worth it.

Sounds like the OP is in a similar situation. You are not, no need to be upset over that. We all find the solution that works for us.