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JCGreene85
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Help with situation..
JCGreene85
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If you have a kid in preschool or K-12 how is your schedule in the mornings or after school? When DS starts preschool it'll be from 9-12 (dont know if i'll do 2 or 3 days). I make my own work schedule so I can drop him off in the morning and then head to work, but I would obviously need someone to pick him up and watch him until I get off work.
Since he was 12 weeks I have had the sweetest lady who watches him 4x a week and my mom the other day. Most days I am at work at 6am and she comes over around 8:30 and picks him up (So my mom wakes up with him). She'll keep him late if needed, keeps him overnight if I close at work and then open, she is amazing. I pay her $220 a week which is the same range as a daycare in my area.
So I obviously do not want to pay for her to watch him 4 days and also pay for preschool. i want to put him in preschool at 3 for the social interaction and to learn.
I guess I am trying to ask how you do it without a SO around to help without it costing a fortune?
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Re: Help with situation..
Some preschools have before/after care, I am lucky mine offers that. So I can drop both kids off at 7:30, they walk DD to the elementary, DS has preschool in the morning then lunch and a nap, they walk DD back from school and I pick them both up at 4:30.
Both kids went to an in home provider and she offered to take DS to preschool and DD to the elementary, but it's actually costing less to use the before/after care at the preschool.
I had DD in day care from 8w until she was too old to be there. At the beginning, while I was in school, the state paid for most of it, and I paid 70$ a month. When I graduated, and lost the benefits, it went to 165/week for a 3 year old. I made 30K annually. I did shift work, and used a 24/7 in home provider. Once I had enough senority to get the shift I wanted, I moved her to a regular child care center. When you ask "how" some one does it, the answer isn't one you'd expect. You just DO. You don't have another choice. We didn't have a lot. We didn't have cable. We didn't have internet. We didn't have a home phone, just my cell. I drove a Hyundai with a 250$ car payment. I had the lowest auto insurance possible. We lived in an apt in a not so great area of town, because it was 600$.
Once they are in school, the price drops DRAMATICALLY. I think mine went to 80/week for before and after school care. It jumps back up in the summer and for Winter, Thanksgiving and Spring breaks, but they had field trips and outings several times a week. I prefer day care centers to home or private care because it provides the kids with a better foundation for school. They know how to interact with other kids. They've got basics in colors, letters, and even some reading. They've got better immune systems. But, it isn't cheap.
Money isn't the issue..I know there is a better way than paying for a nanny and daycare. I think you read my post wrong. I just needed help coming up with a schedule. I can't have him in a regular daycare bc I work some weekends. Schedule isn't the same every week but i write my own so I have pull on it. I guess I'll figure it out when the time comes.
Thanks!
Mine was an extended care program. Now that my oldest is in K she goes to the before school program and I have someone (her father/xMIL on M,W,F) get her off the bus and a sitter on T. Th she goes to her dads.
My youngest goes to daycare on T/Th. M/F she is with her father or XMIL. W I have someone (a family member - whomever is available that week, from now until March it will be my mom, sometimes it's my aunt or my cousin) watch her and get my oldest off the bus.
It's a juggling act. It sucks. I pay 800 a month for part time daycare and still have to cover most days.