Any Daycare Providers here?

[jen0610]

Mom did in-home daycare for YEARS.

Her vacations - No pay, you would have to be paying someone else to watch your kids while she was gone.
Your vacations - You paid.
Your Personnal time off - You paid.

She did sit for one family, that mom was a teacher. Sat for this family for 18 years between the 2 kids. This was how they worked it out. During Christmas break, spring break, and summer vacations, she did not charge this family. She always picked up 1-4 kids with additional hours. These were the kids that she would normally only have in am before school and pm after school. By her watching these kids full days during school breaks, she made up the money she didn't get from the family with the teacher.

For your situation, by moms guide lines, you would be getting paid.

 

[pkasbohm]

I have done daycare for 11 years and this is how i handle it:

i charge them half when they are gone, but if they decide to bring their kid for a day i charge them for the whole day.

They pay me all the time otherwords..if they take a day off, sick, etc... but if i take a day off they do not pay me unless it is a holiday.

It is not your fault they decided to expand their family!!!

I would tell her if she doesn't want to pay you that you don't have any choice but to fill her spot

 

[MemoryMakers2669]

Thanks for all the replies, very helpful!

I do have a contract, and do get paid in full, no matter what. This is my first dealing with a maternity leave though and with such a long one and the way she is about having to pay for care "anyway, even though I am not using it", I wasn't sure how to deal with it. I have added a you pay 1/2 the rate during an extended absense clause though!

Her other child just turned one, so she would have two infants really. She would have a VERY hard time finding care for them I think. I hope all goes well with this.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

How many infants can you have in your care at one time? In MD a home daycare person is limited to two under 2yo. If that's the case in VA, she would have a very hard time finding a daycare home with an opening for 2 babies. I wonder if she's really planning on going back to work. If money is so tight now, how will she be able to pay for care for two babies? Or maybe it's not so tight, but she's just cheap.

 

[disneymom3]

Thanks for all the replies, very helpful!

I do have a contract, and do get paid in full, no matter what. This is my first dealing with a maternity leave though and with such a long one and the way she is about having to pay for care "anyway, even though I am not using it", I wasn't sure how to deal with it. I have added a you pay 1/2 the rate during an extended absense clause though!

Her other child just turned one, so she would have two infants really. She would have a VERY hard time finding care for them I think. I hope all goes well with this.

Honestly? This woman does not sound worth the trouble. There are so many parents out there looking for quality infant care that if she doesn't want to pay your 1/2 rate for the time she is gone let her merrily go on her way. She doesn't work Mondays so she doesn't have to pay for holidays and yet she expects you to go without a portion of your income for 4 months??? If you ask me, she just sounds cheap.

 

[MemoryMakers2669]

In VA, you don't have to have anything, except a home occupancy permit. This is basically you paying the county for letting you do daycare in your home. No inspections or anything, no background checks. This lets you have 5 kids, any ages, can all be infants!

You can also get a state license to have 6-12 kids, but I a not going that far.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

In Maryland, to have even one school aged child, before/after school, a person needs a daycare license. It's why I'm stopping. Just not worth the hassle. I dropped the infant certification 2 inspections ago and the toddler certification at the last inspection, so am currently only licensed (registered is really what they call it) to care for children from ages 5-12 since I only do before/after school care. Or did through last school year. They make it so difficult to legally do in Maryland that many good people like me stop doing it--they just get tired of jumping through the hoops. So the state is left with lots of people who can barely speak English or who are not educated (going to the training classes is fun ) or people who do it illegally, but then the parents can't get the tax break. I wish that they allowed a person to care for a small group of children without the license like VA does and I might keep doing it.