Dissolve services and let them know why! If it affects the whole daycare its time to cut them loose!

I’d love you address so next time one of the kids I keep on the regular shows up with full blown snotty cold I can drop them off at your house so they can leave snot all over your couch and your floors and your pillows and every surface of your home…all the while feeling miserable and just needing their PARENT right now because they SICK give me an effing break. Just because a child isn’t “contagious” doesn’t mean they don’t need to stay home. A sick child needs to be with a parent or close loved one. I am not a an effing necessity to them. WTF is wrong with you?? twenty some dollars a day is not worth wiping buckets of snot all day. if your boss tripled your work but didn’t triple your pay would be happy? I don’t get paid extra to wipe snot all day and clean every surface of my home multiple times. i guess you never thought about it from anyones perspective other than your own though. cause clearly people you give money to are just “necessities” and not people after all.

i would disagree with this statement as would a lot of daycare providers that have been in the business for a while. Most cold/ illness… children are passing around days before symptoms occur, so chances are, if your child wakes up with a running nose and eye boogies… he’s/she’s already been exposing children at daycare for days and there is no point in isolating them at home. I keep a humidifier running round the clock in my home/care center during the winter and although children do get sick, they aren’t sick for very long. Daycare providers who send their child home because of a cold or eye boogies… I feel are being lazy. Colds are a fact of life and children can get up to 12 a year. These parents are paying you to watch their kids because they have to work to pay the bills. You’re not a convenience to them. You are a necessity. They are paying YOU.

In my contract I am very strict about the hours. I contract families based on their hours needed and I calculate commute times. If they show up early or late they have to pay me extra. I give grace for traffic and stuff, but this cuts down on that kind of stuff.

Put it in your contract that you will charge for early drop offs or not open your doors. I have found in this business you need a strong back bone.

Another pet peeve…parents not notifying me that they are deathly ill and coming into my home and dropping their child off. I got the mother effin flu from a parent who didn’t have the decensy to tell me, “hey i have the flu, dropping _______ off, please sanitize the door knobs and her carseat handles after I drop off. Better yet, please meet me on your porch for exchange so I don’t bring my germs inside.” I got the flu a week later. She told on herself a couple months later when she forgot the time frames and mentioned she had the flu. I remember the times and dates, trust me. I remember how sick she looked, she just kept telling me it was a bad cold. I never had the flu before so I was very naive. Still burns me up.

Bottom line, as daycare providers, we have to be strong enough to quit families that just aren’t working for us. There are some amazing and respectful parents out there. We do NOT have to put up with this crap. Period. These bad parents will burn you out and it isn’t worth it.