Have had a Mon-Fri live in nanny/housekeeper for years. Spouse used to travel 5 days a week, 40+ weeks a year. Now has own business. Plus I have my own career. Best financial decision weāve ever made. Seriously. They become extended part of the family. Increases family harmony (you all tend to act more politely and civilly in front of others), and a lot of love. Downside is cost and loss of some privacy. But with daycare being so expensive, itās not that big a difference when you have 2 kids. We used the help to get our earning power up, it became a no brainer for us. If you can do your own taxes, you can manage the paperwork. Not much in it. Few things to file every quarter, make a few payments, W2/W3 once a year, and youāre set. No need to hire an agency to do payroll, manage taxes etc. Many websites with the information.
Hereās how to work out what to pay. Find what restaurant, cleaners etc get paid per hour in your area, multiply it by 40, then that by 52, then by 1.08 (payroll taxes etc). Extra bedroom. Thatās what itās going to cost you. Youāll have a lot of good people who would rather work in the comfort of a home than in a manual job without security. Donāt pay hourly - pay no matter what. You donāt want your nanny worrying if you are going on vacation and not paying them - they also have bills to cover. Some nannyās wonāt want to stay overnight. Thatās fine depending on how old your kids are, and if you have enough coverage without them. Just do an 8 hour schedule per day, or whatever works.
We did OK without a nanny, using daycare, until the second child came along. Then the āDā word came up. Thatās when we knew we needed to try something different. Never looked back.
And you feel good. Youāre providing employment, paying taxes, making your own life better, making someone elseās life and family better. Wins all around.
Divorce lawyers going to be working 80 hour weeks after the courts open back up. I have a friend who does it in Virginia who is already gearing up for just an impossible, although very lucrative, next year.
Personally, we brought back an old nanny on a part time very expensive basis when out daycare closes. Two parents working with a toddler and no help is impossible. However expensive the help is, it has dramatically reduced marital strife.
Berndt taught at the south Los Angeles school for more than 30 years. The allegations against him came to light when a drugstore photo technician noticed dozens of odd photos of blindfolded third-graders and reported them to authorities.
Heā¦had the pictures developed at the drug store? Was his instamatic out of film?
3 in about a year (2017) 2 high school, and one elementary. We have I think a running total of 4 total fired for sex crimes and now we canāt even have teacher phone #s for clubs and off campus education.
Thereās a whole running gag about student teacher contact, no hugs, handshakes, or hand physical contact, and other stupid rules. Saddest part is 2 of them have been let out, and one lives in NC now.
