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$12

I pay the babysitter if I cancel with less than a day's notice.

No

My son is 16 months old and can be a real handful even with people he knows well. Even though we don't have much money, it's worth it to just pay the nanny instead of asking for favor upon favor from family members who are busy and would have to put up with a lot of crying and fussing. She's amazing and needs the job, so I want to keep her around as long as possible. But, we will have to let her go and switch to daycare this summer because it is considerably cheaper. I wish we could pay her more, but we do give her a lot of freedom, including a car seat for her own car so that she can take him on play dates or run errands. It would be a special kind of torture to leave him and her cooped up in our little apartment all day.

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