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Wishing you all the best!
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Update
Just wanted to tell you how today went. I handed a letter to each parent this morning. There was only 3 to give them to. They all seemed shocked... 2 out of 3 were very supportive. The one moving off to England of course was supportive and happy for me. The other mom was super sweet and said she was bummed but totally understood & told me if I change my mind, she'd love to come back someday with their new baby due any day. The 3rd mom was quiet at first but when she came to pick up her son, she was a total jerk!
She was the one mom that I thought would be the nicest about it.
At pick up she wasn't even speaking to me! Just "come on - lets go" to her son. I mentioned the closing down and she starting rambling on about how stressed out she is now because she had switched him 3 times to different daycares and now she has to find another. Thats not MY fault that she did that. She took him from his 1st daycare because she said it was too large... the 2nd daycare she pulled him from because it was too small! And I'm the 3rd. Not my problem really!
I just said "well good luck" ~ I'm not letting her guilt trip bother me at all. I think she is mostly bummed because since she is a school teacher, I didn't charge them to pay me during school breaks. There are NO other daycares in my area that offer that. So she knows she had a good thing. She is super cheap so I'm sure that is her main complaint.
Anyway ~ I feel WAY better after getting that done. I do feel a little sad though. I've been doing daycare for so long now that I'm getting out of my comfort zone. I just hope everything falls together like I hope.
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Oh and thank you all SO much for your kind words! I really appreciate it
Michael - Thank you for having my daycare ad posted on this website. Wondering if you can remove it whenever you have time ~ if you haven't already. Thank you
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I just wanted to tell you that I am going through the same thing right now. My youngest is 3 but I will be putting him in preschool in the fall and I will try to get a job. I have a bachelor's but being out of work for so long, I wonder how that's gonna work. I have had the worst luck with this business lately. I think my main problem was doing business with people I know. They did not take my business seriously, never honored policies. I have one full time child left enrolled and his mom is a student. She is done with school at the end of April so I will be closing at that time. Good luck to you because I know this is a hard decision to make.Comment
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Thanks Learn-n-grow. I wish you the best too. It was a hard decision to make, but I think we just "know" when its time. I always get so irritated with people I know who complain about their job all the time but never do anything to change it or better themselves. I could see myself turning into that person and it freaked me out. So I knew it was time to call it quits. It was scary giving them notice, but right afterward I was SO relieved and happy. Now I'm just super happy to have this be the last week. One of my daycare boys mom had a baby last night, so he will probably not come back this week at all... another one is having his last day today and my one last dcb will have his last day Thursday. Then I'm going to do the "happy dance" all over my house
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enjoy your new found freedom!!!!! happyface
I am hoping to get a few kids by Fall or I may be reluctantly closing down too... can't afford to run a daycare with only 2 kids.
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