Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?
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Full-time Nanny with SAHP - Why?
| Tue, 02-10-2004 - 6:41pm |
Something I've often wondered about, but never had the opportunity to ask. Why do SAHM or SAHD need a full time nanny, especially when they aren't working from home. I can easily see the need if the SAHP is a WAHP, but what is the logic for a full time nanny otherwise?
Any comments?

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I also live in a very small town - we have only one grocery store and two gas stations. Working would mean a commute to the city - either decreasing the amount of time I could actually work, or requiring some kind of care before or after school.
Even if my working is non-essential in the food and shelter sense, I just don't agree that work that brings in money to raise the family's SOL is exactly the same as volunteering (even leaving aside the paying for childcare aspect of volunteering in the original hypothetical) in importance.
Those of you who want to volunteer 40 hours a week and hire a nanny to enable you to do it, go for it!
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I don't think a family should hire a nanny so one of the parents can go volunteer for 40 hours a week, every week.
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If I had ever been making 100K, the situation would be entirely different. I am realistic about my present earning potential, and the amount of money I could earn working part time out of the home is small, and would be made smaller by increased taxes and childcare.
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There are flexible jobs, you just have to be willing to look for them instead of saying they don't exist without even trying. Also, an awful lot of moms here work at home. That is, assuming you even want to try. Maybe you just don't want to work?
But that is the issue, they are using THEIR definitions for "the expense of the family".
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Maybe you could try to explain how you leaving your kids 40 hours a week to do volunteer work is as valuable to them as you taking care of them for those 40 hours or contributing to their SOL, then maybe I could see it.
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