I take my son to daycare in the summer and we both love it. It costs $145 per week plus a $130 fee at the beginning of the summer. It covers all his meals (breakfast, lunch, and a snack), he loves his teacher there, he has tons of friends, they have a large outdoor/active component, they go on 3 or 4 field trips a week, and they review school work. He is already looking forward to this summer.
But in talking to the other moms at his baseball game last night, I am the only one sending my kid to daycare. The rest were opting for either speciality summer camps or a family member/babysitter. Camps aren't even really an option for me because I have to be at work at 6:15am, but even if they were some of these people were talking about paying $250-$300 per week. I don't have a family member to watch my son and my sitter charges me $120 per day whenever I have to work on the weekend or a holiday. I can't even imagine paying that.
Just curious if this really is the norm. What do you do for childcare in the summer?
I take my son to daycare in the summer and we both love it. It costs $145 per week plus a $130 fee at the beginning of the summer. It covers all his meals (breakfast, lunch, and a snack), he loves his teacher there, he has tons of friends, they have a large outdoor/active component, they go on 3 or 4 field trips a week, and they review school work. He is already looking forward to this summer.
But in talking to the other moms at his baseball game last night, I am the only one sending my kid to daycare. The rest were opting for either speciality summer camps or a family member/babysitter. Camps aren't even really an option for me because I have to be at work at 6:15am, but even if they were some of these people were talking about paying $250-$300 per week. I don't have a family member to watch my son and my sitter charges me $120 per day whenever I have to work on the weekend or a holiday. I can't even imagine paying that.
Just curious if this really is the norm. What do you do for childcare in the summer?
If you don't mind my asking, what do you pay for your nanny? My regular sitter charges $10 per hour. Sometimes I have to work weekends or holidays and both school/daycare are closed. Between travel time on both ends and me wanting her there a little early in the morning for instructions, etc. I pay her $120 one one work day. I work 4 days a week so that would come out to $480 per week. I haven't ever asked, so I don't know if she'd lower her hourly rate for that much time. But that's a lot.