https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:07:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916817 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:03:35 +0000 muffinsmuffins 2916817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Would your in laws take them for a sleepover? Time it for 2 days you have overlap? Our in laws live 45 mins away and were coming here Tuesday and Wednesday but they asked if they could just pick them up for a sleepover. UM YES. So DW packs their stuff, they leave their car at our place, take our car with seats back and keep them both. Then DW drives their car back and brings them home. We both get 2 full days of work that way. My parents live further and are taking my older for a week in August as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916809 Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:46:45 +0000 karenbme 2916809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Seconding college students looking for work/income. If you have a local state or community college, you can reach out to the education faculty for recommendations. You would have to be clear about what your exposure is and what theirs is though if it's not someone you know already. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916790 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:22:50 +0000 winter_wonder 2916790@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any college students looking for part time work? Or, are there any retirees in your area who would be interested? My neighbors are in their early 60s and honestly more active than my husband and I are! I could see them being interested in something like that. Any chance your MIL could come to your house? Maybe spend the night or stack the days if possible? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916784 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:02:50 +0000 DesertDreams88 2916784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe a high schooler in the neighborhood who is looking for a flexible way to make some extra cash? I hear that a lot of them haven't been able to get summer jobs.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916778 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:08:57 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2916778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lady baltimore: not really but I’ll try to keep thinking about it. Good idea, I totally agree about mixing it up with kids to play with your kids, I would love this! </p> <p>@catgirl: That would be ideal! None of my coworkers live near me and it seems like everyone has family to help out. Ugh not fair! I have a nurse friend who could potentially need help who works in a different sort of unit in a different hospital so that probably wouldn’t work. </p> <p>Both of these ideas are great, and exactly what I mean, I hope someone else has one that would work for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916775 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:03:46 +0000 catgirl 2916775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have a friend who is a nurse - she swaps childcare with another nurse friend. They work different days but figured they/their families are exposed to similar things from their jobs. So they watch each other's kids for one or two shifts (depending on the week). It also means all of the kids get a little playtime with each other. Is there someone from work you could figure out a swap with? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916773 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:16:06 +0000 lady baltimore 2916773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do your kids have any friends from school or the neighborhood whose parents might be willing to watch them for you? I would love to have a solid excuse to have a neighbor's kids over one afternoon a week to give my own kid some social interaction. At least then you probably wouldn't be looking at a situation where your sitter was working in lots of different homes throughout the week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/any-creative-childcare-solutions#post-2916760 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 15:37:32 +0000 mrsbubbletea 2916760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I need help figuring this out! I have a 5yo and a 2 yo who will hopefully be in kindergarten and preschool this fall I need summer child care but I can’t figure out a good option. We are both essential workers who never stopped working outside the home, although I missed a lot of work when schools first closed since I had no child care. My husband has relatively low exposure risk at work since he works alone in a stall (mechanic welder) for most of the day, but does encounter coworkers wearing masks and at lunch without masks. I am a nurse, but I only work 2 days a week and at a children’s hospital so we have minimal cases. We probably have one or two at a time on the whole floor, we test everyone, and I haven’t even had a positive as my patient yet. </p> <p>We only need child care in the hours our work overlaps, like 12-5, and it’s only 1 day a week since I work some weekends. Honestly, it’s always been a challenge to find good part time consistent baby sitters but now with covid it’s even harder! Last week my husband drove the kids to my mother in law’s and I picked them up, but it’s fairly inconvenient to do that, about 1 hour driving there in traffic and 30 min back to my house. </p> <p>I was thinking about posting a job for 5 hours 2 days a week, at a good 5$ above the normal hourly rate as an incentive, but I am not really into the idea of sharing a babysitter with other families when we are still fairly strict about socializing. And I don’t know if sitters and families would be ok with our jobs and potential exposure anyways! Plus the sitter themselves... any advice or creative solutions? </p>