I am moving to Singapore with my husband and 4 year old son this summer, and my husband and I will both be teaching at the same International School that my son will be attending. Unfortunately, our son's school start time is 30 minutes after we begin work and his end time is 30 minutes before we end. I have tried scouring the internet for weeks trying to educate myself on part time vs. full time helpers, and fully investigating both options.
It seems that if we were to hire someone for only drop offs and pickups it would end up being $25 an hour, and with 2 hours a day 5 days a week that would be $1000 a month, vs.a live- in helper which it appears would cost somewhere around $1500 a month. Both options certainly seem like more than I had hoped to pay for that half hour at the beginning and end of each day, although the full- time helper would certainly get us more help for our money's worth. We are just trying to determine if a full time helper is really something we need or want, and trying to determine if there are any other options out there we may not know about.
We are thinking that an ideal situation for us would be someone who could drop our son off in the mornings, do some light housework/ grocery shopping, etc. during the day, pick him up in the afternoons and then end her shift, for less than the expense of a full time helper. However, I have not been able to find any of this type of help available throughout my search.
If anyone has any pearls of wisdom or advice they would be willing to share about this situation, I would be forever grateful! Thank you in advance for your insight!
