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Re: Kids
« Reply #1425 on: January 28, 2016, 07:04:12 AM »
We pay $200/week for in-home for our 16 month old in Johnson County.  The rate has been the same since January 2015.  I can't remember the particulars, but it is year round, federal holidays off, and I think she gets 5 paid days off a year.  She's great and I would never tell anyone about her specifically until my kid was ready to leave.  When we were interviewing the rates for in-home seemed to be about $200-$250 per week but skewed towards the lower range.  I could tell a horror story or two about interviewing.   :sdeek:

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1426 on: January 28, 2016, 08:33:13 AM »
that is called slavery, someone making that cannot be trusted with an adult let alone a child

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1427 on: January 28, 2016, 08:35:18 AM »
Kc is supposed to be really expensive for daycare.
I have friends that pay 150 or so per week but the kids are banging Tupperware and watching cartoons all dat

I couldn't pay someone to drive my kid to daycare for that in Omaha. If yelp had a good daycare review system I would filter out the Above $5,000 a month and Below $1,000 a month to avoid obvious traumatic and terrible people/places

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1428 on: January 28, 2016, 08:48:13 AM »
We pay $200/week for in-home for our 16 month old in Johnson County.  The rate has been the same since January 2015.  I can't remember the particulars, but it is year round, federal holidays off, and I think she gets 5 paid days off a year.  She's great and I would never tell anyone about her specifically until my kid was ready to leave.  When we were interviewing the rates for in-home seemed to be about $200-$250 per week but skewed towards the lower range.  I could tell a horror story or two about interviewing.   :sdeek:
That is wildly cheap.

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« Reply #1429 on: January 28, 2016, 08:49:19 AM »
Wow, having kids sounds terrible and expensive.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1430 on: January 28, 2016, 08:50:14 AM »
After a few yrs, the daycare stops and the mowing of the lawn, dishes, cleaning, etc begins.  It's a trade off over time

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1431 on: January 28, 2016, 08:52:18 AM »
I used to pay like $300 a month for doggie daycare
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1432 on: January 28, 2016, 08:54:06 AM »
We pay $200/week for in-home for our 16 month old in Johnson County.  The rate has been the same since January 2015.  I can't remember the particulars, but it is year round, federal holidays off, and I think she gets 5 paid days off a year.  She's great and I would never tell anyone about her specifically until my kid was ready to leave.  When we were interviewing the rates for in-home seemed to be about $200-$250 per week but skewed towards the lower range.  I could tell a horror story or two about interviewing.   :sdeek:
That is wildly cheap.

I know right?  I'd pay double for her for sure.  I think for in-home in the area it's competitive but compared to a day care center it's less.  We didn't want to do a center, a decision that has only been reinforced by some experiences of our friends.  (lots of  :sdeek: there, too)

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1433 on: January 28, 2016, 09:00:10 AM »
We pay $1,200 a month for one kid and feel like we're stealing

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1434 on: January 28, 2016, 09:00:43 AM »
We pay $200/week for in-home for our 16 month old in Johnson County.  The rate has been the same since January 2015.  I can't remember the particulars, but it is year round, federal holidays off, and I think she gets 5 paid days off a year.  She's great and I would never tell anyone about her specifically until my kid was ready to leave.  When we were interviewing the rates for in-home seemed to be about $200-$250 per week but skewed towards the lower range.  I could tell a horror story or two about interviewing.   :sdeek:
That is wildly cheap.

I know right?  I'd pay double for her for sure.  I think for in-home in the area it's competitive but compared to a day care center it's less.  We didn't want to do a center, a decision that has only been reinforced by some experiences of our friends.  (lots of  :sdeek: there, too)

In your home or in her home?

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1435 on: January 28, 2016, 09:02:17 AM »
hire a nanny


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Re: Kids
« Reply #1436 on: January 28, 2016, 09:03:02 AM »
Is that in-home?

EDIT:  In their home?  As in you take your kid to their house?  That's what we do Mrs. Gooch.  Also, a great plus for us, she's like a quarter mile away. 

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1437 on: January 28, 2016, 09:13:10 AM »
You guys should have seen some of the people we had watch our kids before they were in school.  It was hilarious.   :lol:   I'm pretty sure one of them was eating our dogs Milk Bones as a snack.  Another one didn't show up one day because she was in jail lol.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1438 on: January 29, 2016, 08:32:20 PM »
Started teaching the oldest to drive this evening. Makes me feel a little older than yesterday.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1440 on: February 08, 2016, 09:03:15 PM »
Started teaching the oldest to drive this evening. Makes me feel a little older than yesterday.

I've done this a couple times in the last 6 months with my oldest on country roads around where I grew up. Its fun.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1441 on: February 08, 2016, 09:12:22 PM »
When the bullets are flying, that's when I'm at my best

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1442 on: February 08, 2016, 09:17:59 PM »
it's pretty cool, surprising how hard it shoots. eats batteries tho (takes 6 C at a time).


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Re: Kids
« Reply #1443 on: February 09, 2016, 08:14:22 AM »
We ended up purchasing two. They say ages 8+ on the package but that rounds down to 2 so we made the purchase.

The retaliator, for heavy firepower


And the Firestrike Blaster with laser sight for pinpoint single shot accuracy

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1444 on: February 09, 2016, 08:18:27 AM »
What's the purpose of these things?

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1445 on: February 09, 2016, 08:19:42 AM »
What's the purpose of these things?

we currently hunt "cybugs" (sp?) from wreck it ralph.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1446 on: February 09, 2016, 08:24:53 AM »
Sweet. 

I ask because I'm at this time conflicted about if I'll be okay with pointing "guns" at people (for my own kid, you do what want obvs). 

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1447 on: February 09, 2016, 08:37:14 AM »
Sweet. 

I ask because I'm at this time conflicted about if I'll be okay with pointing "guns" at people (for my own kid, you do what want obvs). 

If you have boys, unless you keep them extremely sheltered, they will a) turn anything that resembles a gun into a gun and b) they will point it at things/people and shoot them. That's my experience anyway.

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Re: Kids
« Reply #1448 on: February 09, 2016, 08:55:38 AM »
I'm pretty impressed that lil'emo hasn't been forced to "finish off" a squirrel or stab a cat or something yet  :thumbs:
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Re: Kids
« Reply #1449 on: February 09, 2016, 08:59:38 AM »
Sweet. 

I ask because I'm at this time conflicted about if I'll be okay with pointing "guns" at people (for my own kid, you do what want obvs). 

If you have boys, unless you keep them extremely sheltered, they will a) turn anything that resembles a gun into a gun and b) they will point it at things/people and shoot them. That's my experience anyway.

Yes, I agree it's going to happen, but I think I might consider discouraging it, and if it becomes a problem take crap away for small increments of time.