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Nannies are too expensive. We found a great in home daycare ran by a lady who was a teacher for 20 years and now has conditioned her house for that. I don't pay over 1k per month and my daughter who is 3 has learnt to color within the lines, and has learnt all the colors and count from 1-5. There's a lot of stigma around these arrangements but I consider myself lucky to have found this unicorn
Is it too expensive? Its a full time job with significant responsibilities. 4K a month is 48K a year. If you're single that nets your housing costs at around 150K max.
Isn’t it weird how everyone talks about how you have to save money to send your kid to college but no one warns you that you will spend nearly as much on their first 4 years of childcare?
With 3 kids we have spent around $400k on childcare and still 2 years to go and we aren’t doing the cheapest options but we are certainly not doing the most expensive.
I cast absolutely no shade at those for whom this is simply not an option (single parents).
For those for whom it is an option, there’s a heavy stigma around it because the decision requires considerable cognitive dissonance to claim it is the best option.
I can speak for myself, our decision to not farm out the responsibility for our childcare and education required us to radically reorient our lives. We absolutely were in a place of great privilege, with an incredible support system in place. But we also sacrificed hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to be with our littles as they grew up.
My wife left her job to be with our littles and that experience has been so profoundly good that it rewired my own brain to stop climbing the corporate totem pole. I went from fully onsite to hybrid to fully remote just to be more present with my kids. Now I’m doing everything I can to disconnect from the corporate world and gain freedom from the 9-5.
It truly is the “new rich” - where we have the freedom to go anywhere and do anything we want. Forget the fancy car in the driveway. I can be free in my Toyota swagger wagon.
It’s a one way flow. I’ve seen no one taste this kind of freedom ever willingly go back. The stigma is real, and there for a reason.
Maybe I've watched too many movies but I don't like the idea of someone living in my home.. I don't think I'd ever do a LIVE IN nanny... If she goes home everyday that's fine but otherwise, no..
Anyone needing childcare in around Casar NC ?
Try to pair with a compatible family for a nanny share.
We have 3 kids and were able to keep the first with a nanny until he was 2.5, our second had a nanny right until kindergarten and our third was with a nanny until 3.
I was also able to work from home during this time so I got a lot of breaks and meals to see the kids too and keep up on what they were doing. I really think it made a big impact to have our kids home until they were 3 at least although to some extent it depends on the kids personality.