Share Care Part II – The Partnership: Choosing the Families in the Share Care
Posted on December 1st, 2010 in category Share Care | No Comments
Initially, a share care seems like it should be a very straight-forward and attractive alternative to hiring a nanny just for your own family. In general, if two families split one nanny, then for each family all the costs should get split in half too. Sounds simple, right? Share care arrangements can work well, but potential problems can often arise among families with different schedules or different parenting requirements, styles or needs. Here in our second ‘share care’ blog post, we’d like to highlight some of the important issues that we see arise in a share care situations and should be considered at the outset. One way to look at it is this: At one end of the spectrum, if your family hires its own nanny, you will have all the complete control and get to make all the decisions. At the other end of the spectrum, if you were to try to combine enough families into one share care group, then you would essentially be a part of a private day care arrangement, and you would need to have maximum flexibility to get the benefits. So, if you’re going to do a share care, somewhere in between those two …
