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ScissorTailedFlycatcher
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If you didn't have a babysitter for after school, WWYD?
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Re: If you didn't have a babysitter for after school, WWYD?
The first thing I would do is contact the school if they have any afternoon programs and/or can point you in the right direction.
Then I would contact the YMCA. I know in FL they would bus the kids to local Y.
Then I would contact your local churches for direction. They may have programs or could even find someone for you.
I have 3 neighbors I could call and ask to watch him for an afternoon, and if I was really desperate, I can think of 2 other neighbors who could probably do it in a pinch.
If it was an ongoing thing (vs. the sitter called in sick one day) I would look for a kid in his class with a SAHM who might want to make a little extra money by watching him a few hours a day.
Is it a one time thing or an ongoing situation?
One time thing I would take the afternoon off to stay home. Ongoing I would check into after school programs.
With us personally SS is in an after school program. DH works nights so the little extra sleep during the day he can get is great. It's a no cost program and it's wonderful.
My job is actually with an after schol program in a Middle School, so I am all about them. Find if your area has anything like that like the others have advised. They really are wonderful for the children even if you don't have to have them go somewhere after school.
DS starts school next year, and my H and I are pretty much turning our lives upside down to make sure that one or both of us is home from work when he gets home from school.
If that was impossible, we were prepared to pay for after-school care through whatever we could find at his school. They have a lot of programs, so.. no big deal.
When it's something unusual and both DH and I are working late, I call my mom as soon as I know what's going on to ask if she and my dad can cover us. For example?DS gets out at 11:30 on 12/11 for some teacher enrichment thing. My parents have known since before Thanksgiving and are planning to pick him up and do something with him.
SD has always done an after school program, either bused to an outside day care or been in a school program. However, the school she is in now the district doesn't have that program. I have a SIL that has a business she runs from home so I would see (if it were only for a a few days) if she could come by before SD gets off the bus and stay until my mom gets out of work, if I can't be here.
If there is enough notice my mom might be able to take a few days off, otherwise we would have to look into the Y or another program. We don't know our neighbors and SD gets dropped off at our house (they wont allow her to be dropped off at a friends).
I left out the details of the situation on purpose. It's not my situation necessarily, but it's BMs. Her solution is to have everyone stay at home. Instead of just fuming about it, I figured I would get some answers from you guys and see what I can hook her up with.
She has class every Tuesday. She knows this. SS gets out at noon and SD gets home around 4. If she can't find a babysitter, she will drop them off at my MIL's before she goes to school and they miss the day due to "Personal Business". SS is up to 6 absences. Most of the time it happens on Tuesdays, sometimes it happens on other days because of work or her social lilfe.
This wouldn't be an issue if, one, it wasn't something that happens often, or two, if it was not something she knew of ahead of time, or three, if there wasn't a strong history of excessive absences. It's just frustrating because we can't watch them and they are missing out on school.