Sharing holiday childcare with sibling

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I’ve seen that people get help from grandparents with childcare for holidays. Does anyone share childcare with a working sibling who also has children eg one siblings takes half term week off and had all four kids and the other does the same for the other half term…?

My aunt by marriage used to do that with her sister. She'd have her two nephews for two weeks. Then her two went to their Aunt's for two weeks. They stayed Mon- Fri as it was a couple of hours drive.

I know plenty of families where they will share the childcare. Not usually for whole weeks at a time but one of them will take one day off a week and have all of the children and then the other will take another day off each way and have all of the children. I know siblings who do this for each other but also groups of friends.

My coworker did this with twins. Two sets of them!
She took care of her 1 year old twins and her sister's 2 year old twins all at the same time for half the summer holidays and then her sister took care of them. 4 aged 2 and under, brave woman. But it meant they didn't need to shell out for care over the summer.

My Dsis and I do this for each other, however neither of us work outside the home and we live literally next door to each other, it's great!

I'm looking after her 2 this weekend whilst she goes away and she is doing the same for DH and I when we go to the USA in January for DH's 50th.

Good to know! I get on well with my sibling and live about an hour away from each other. We have similar aged children so I guess this could be an option when the time comes. Will discuss it with her.

I do, I work term time so have my niece 3 days a week in holidays whilst my sister works and she has my son when he has different teacher training days or when he off with his health Condition, he'll stay at hers whilst she works from home. It's a big help for us both.

We do it for a couple of days each but a week would be too much

I know close friends that have done this with their children-not generally for a whole week though. One would eg have four kids for Mon/Tuesday and the other would do Wednesday/Thursday. Not sure about the Friday-it might have been a holiday club or grandma?!

I’m a SAHM I have my nephew after school most days and in the holidays to save him having to go to after school club or holiday club. It’s not easy though I feel put on and taken advantage of I feel as if I have three children not two, and if I wanted three I’d have another not look after someone else. I think it can work but definitely see it long term. How will you feel if you take all the kids to the zoo but when they stay with their Uncle/auntie they just let them lounge in front of the TV?

I think it works well if you have a similar ethos and similar finances.

I don't do it now as my youngest has 24/7 care needs, but for a long time I did it with my two cousins. I worked term time so I had their children (1 each) for two weeks of the holidays and odd inset days. At another point they'd have my children for a week so I got a week off.

We were all very similar minded though and that made it work. Another friend did it and she did a lot with the kids for her week, as discussed, and the other friend did nothing. In fact her kid came home hungry as they didn't like the food that was being given.

I'd love to do this with my brother but SILs parents have her kids all thru

We had something like this growing up, where me, my sis and cousins were always together at various family members houses.

Me and my Dsis share childcare, because that's how it was growing up. It's works well and we plan around each others work commitments. Sometimes DM comes and has all of the children together.