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My daughter is entering a beauty pageant, so that means an entrance fee. She won last year and the grand prize was $5,000!
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You didn't include any of the expenses for this in your budget. What is the entrance fee? How much are you paying for her gowns and other pageant clothing? Hair, nails and makeup? Travel to pageants? Hotel rooms during the event? Portfolios? Does she have coaches? Lessons? How many gowns, hotel rooms and entrance fees have you paid for times she didn't win? I know a lot of people who think they are coming out ahead with a cash beauty pageant win -- but they forget to that it cost them twice what they won to participate. This is an expensive hobby and not a good way to pay for school or earn income.
Unless your neighbor is with your kids all day with the primary responsiblity of caring for them, then your kids are unsupervised all day. Don't fool yourself. A 13 year old may be fine watching herself, but not mature enough to watch younger kids, too.