Anonymous wrote:I used to be a nanny charging $17 an hour.
Now im a Mom who works PT.
If someone asked me to do this I wouldnt expect $17 an hour now I have my own child.
I would probably do it for $12.

As a Mom I wouldnt pay more than $10 an hour for someone to watch my child in this type of arrangement.

As you were previously a nanny, you could ask for $12 and it would be reasonable since you have prior experience. As a mom, who is most likely asking another mother with no experience other than maybe some babysitting at some point in her past (no nanny work), no more than $10 would be reasonable for that situation. I couldn't see paying more than that myself either. If the person asked for more, then I would just hire someone else who I wasn't already friends with and that had plenty of experience, who would do actual after school care interacting with my child the majority of the time and be focusing on them and not their own children at any point.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up pretty poor and this was a very common childcare arrangement. About half the mothers in our apartment building worked, and if this was you, you went to somebody else's house after school.

The woman who used to take care of me after school used to clean her house and cook dinner for her family while I played with her kids, played on my own, or did homework. She was there if I needed something, but she did not "work" for my parents. She did get paid, but I'm sure it was nowhere near the equivalent of $15 /hr today.

All this to say, please find out your friend's expectations. She may not be budgeting for "hiring a nanny."

How insane that you don't consider taking responsibility for a child, as work. Your attitude explains the hell of most childcare in our culture.

They meant she was not acting as an employee of the parents. This was a friend who was doing them a favor and because it was "work" she got paid a smaller amount probably based on previous childcare experience (was she a nanny before? most likely not.) and her job duties (which weren't doing anything other than being there and feeding the child maybe).

Anonymous wrote:I grew up pretty poor and this was a very common childcare arrangement. About half the mothers in our apartment building worked, and if this was you, you went to somebody else's house after school.

The woman who used to take care of me after school used to clean her house and cook dinner for her family while I played with her kids, played on my own, or did homework. She was there if I needed something, but she did not "work" for my parents. She did get paid, but I'm sure it was nowhere near the equivalent of $15 /hr today.

All this to say, please find out your friend's expectations. She may not be budgeting for "hiring a nanny."

How insane that you don't consider taking responsibility for a child, as work. Your attitude explains the hell of most childcare in our culture.

I grew up pretty poor and this was a very common childcare arrangement. About half the mothers in our apartment building worked, and if this was you, you went to somebody else's house after school.

The woman who used to take care of me after school used to clean her house and cook dinner for her family while I played with her kids, played on my own, or did homework. She was there if I needed something, but she did not "work" for my parents. She did get paid, but I'm sure it was nowhere near the equivalent of $15 /hr today.

All this to say, please find out your friend's expectations. She may not be budgeting for "hiring a nanny."

OP, Have you asked her what range she had in mind?