Solving the child-care conundrum
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Like many moms, Christine Hanna has pieced together care for her son Axel carefully, like a patchwork quilt. Hanna runs a new business helping owners sell their own homes, so she needs flexible yet consistent care.
So on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, she shares a nanny with a Phinney Ridge family. On Thursdays, Hanna’s mother-in-law takes care of her son. And on Mondays or Fridays, a 16-year-old girl, Ava, helps for two hours or so. “She’ll either watch Axel while I get some work done or she does errands,” such as organizing Hanna’s recipes or folding laundry, Hanna says.
Many Seattle families are stitching together their own patterns after they find that area day cares often have yearlong waits, realize that a full-time nanny is beyond their budgets, or discover that existing child-care solutions aren’t in sync with their schedules...
