After 3pm care - would you?

just really putting out the question (for mum's who pick their child up from school at 3pm)

If the school your child/ren went to had a preschool attached, would you consider picking up one 4 year old as well as your own child/ren to look after until 4/4:30pm each day?

If so, what would you consider a fair $$? (We're in Auckland) $80-100 a week? More? Less?



(just tossing up some thoughts, I would love to send my child to a preschool which is attached to the primary school we want him to attend for at least 6 months, possibly a year before he starts school, but they close at 3:15pm, and I don't finish work till 3:30/4pm)

I could talk to them, hadn't really thought about that, but i know the school after school care clearly states from 5years of age.

Just trying to work the logistics of how we will do it, mind blank!

Could you talk to the daycare and get the teachers to ask other parents if any of them would consider looking after an extra child for an hour or 2 in the afternoons? Or maybe the school could put a note in their school notice? If anything like that came up here I'd happily take it up, I'm always home in the afternoons, have heaps of toys so one extra to occupy the lounge wouldnt bother me. As for $, most preschools around here charge $5-7 per hour, and since it would only be up to 1.5 hours per day, I'd say around $80 a week would suffice. Then again, daycare may not be as cheap up your way, so may have to offer more. Also depends on whether you provide afternoon tea or not etc...

Thanks for your responses, now have some things to think about :)