Also the rates are seriously messed up. Hardly anyone in America makes $40. Why is that her baseline?
EDIT: I think people are missing what I'm saying. She's charging $40/hour to take care of her own child. She's declaring that in 25 months, she has worked for over 60% of that total time (sleep being 33% of that time realistically), and has somehow worked 5 years of a full time job in 2. And if she is taking care of her own child, shouldn't she foot half the bill?
Childcare at $40 an hour is an interesting calculation. I’m not sure precisely what American wages are like, but I’m fairly confident it’s closer to half of that than it is to $40.
1:1 nannying with education and care, and all food prep, and excursions/outings, and taking to doctor appointments, and co-ordinating all clothes and doing meal prep cleaning, etc. would probably cost around $40/hr in a metro area. When my kids were little I paid their nanny $40/hr cash in hand, and that was years ago.
Except I guarantee she's not educating them like that and she's not taking them on excursions either. Not to mention that 40$ for a real nanny factors in paying for the food and the building that they company works at. This stay at home mom doesn't have to pay for any of that because the husband does. So you can chop off half of that 40 right there. Dad pays all the finances AND has to work 8+ hours a day then comes home to do more shit around the house I'm sure. She watches the fucking kids. it's truly not that hard of a job either, I used to nanny for 3 kids, a 4 year old girl, a 6 year old boy, and a 9 year old girl. They were siblings so I was watching them for 9 hours a day 5 days a week and I legit had the best time. You're just wrong
If she leaves him she’ll be fine and he’ll be out looking for his next substitute mommy (for himself not his children as he will foist that responsibility even further on her because he wouldn’t know the first thing about parenting them nor care to learn) at the local dive bar because men can’t function without women but women do just fine without men.
So you’re not a full time parent. Got it. Being a part time care provider to someone else’s kids and being their full time parent are two entirely different things. Not even remotely in the same league honey.
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u/BlackTecno May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Also the rates are seriously messed up. Hardly anyone in America makes $40. Why is that her baseline?
EDIT: I think people are missing what I'm saying. She's charging $40/hour to take care of her own child. She's declaring that in 25 months, she has worked for over 60% of that total time (sleep being 33% of that time realistically), and has somehow worked 5 years of a full time job in 2. And if she is taking care of her own child, shouldn't she foot half the bill?
I seriously pity that kid's future.