Nursing school with young kids

[MNSS]

Hello,

I will be starting nursing school Fall 2016. My kids will be 4.5 and 8.5. My husband travels a lot so I cannot depend on him. I am stressed out trying to come up with a plan for my kids. I know I cant drop them at 6 am or earlier at a day care . So my next best option would be to hire a nanny who came 5 days a week from 6 am to 6 pm or then hire a full time live in nanny. But I dont know how to find a good and reliable one whom I can trust with my kids. I plan on doing BSN nursing which is 2 years so I have to be at class for4 days a week.

I so badly want to do nursing and dont feel like quitting now. I have only A& P 2 left to take but the class timings are just not suitable to me right now so I decided to take A & P 2 in Spring 2016 and apply for fall 2016.

Please tell me how should I go about the nanny option.

Thanks so much for you advice and support.

[jessicamillan12]

Here my advice , as a current nursing student and a former babysitter, Start looking now, it will take some time to find a RELIABLE and trustworthy babysitter. If you find someone early, you can have test trials and see if your kids are comfortable with that person. Outline expectation clearly and early so that there is a mutual understanding. Pay should be decent, research the average pay for a live in nanny and know laws regarding hiring a live in nanny. As for care.com , just use that site with caution, I was not willing to give my information to a site that Im not sure is properly regulated and as a caregiver , the rates being offered there were atrocious , some parent would want you to drive their kids to school and activities with my car , clean the house, do the laundry, cook their meals, and take care of the kids all for $10 per hour. So this is why I say expectations should be clearly listed. Nannies can be expensive , especially the very good ones, if you want may could hire before and after school care depending on the time the daycare open and closes, that could save some money.

[Dohardthings]

Do not use Care.com or at least as a good reliable source because the people that I have tried to hire out of there are total flakes or no shows. Good Luck.

And if it were me, I would use day care and drop them off at 6am. If the teacher is sick, they find their own backups but if your nanny is sick, you will be left scrambling.

You can do this! And the good news is that at their ages, they are more flexible than teenagers. Surprisingly, teens are more work. So your kids are at a good flexible age, you got that going for you.