Hours VS Actual Arrival- When Do You Get Ready?

[Lyss]

The other post about what you do to get ready got me thinking about this too:

If your hours are say 6am to 6pm and all your DCK normally show at 8:15, are you up and ready at 6 or 8?

Just curious how everyone else does this

[Ariana]

My hours are from 7:45 until 4:45pm. The kids don't show up until 8:30-9am so thats when I'm ready to go. I get up around 8am!

[jokalima]

My horus are 7:30-5:30, my kids don't show up usually until 7:50-8:15 But I still get up at the same time because I KNOW that the day I stay an extra 10-15 minutes in bed is the day they will come early.

[itlw8]

If 8:15 is the earliest I would be ready by 8 If they need to come early I would have them ask if I was available

[daycare123]

my hours are 730 to 530. I get up at 650 to get ready for the day. My first arrival is 745am.

[Blackcat31]

I get up at the same time every day, even on non-work days.

On work days though, I don't head into my daycare house until about 15 minutes before the first DCK is scheduled to arrive. (most days it is 7:30)

Most days it is the same time every day but every once in a while I get a day that starts 30-60 minutes later than normal.

[Kiki]

I'm contracted, all of my families arrival times vary so I don't really have an open/close time. Regardless of that fact, I wake up at 6:30 every day, and am ready to go by 7:00. Even on weekends. I'm an odd duck, and I really feel like my day is wasted if I wake up after that time. (Also, I've found that on the weekends, my kids and DH don't wake up until about 9:30, so those 2.5 hours alone? Ahhhhh. There are no words!)

[jojosmommy]

I had trouble with this a few times. Finally I laid down the law. I open at 6, NOBODY comes until 7:45. I am not getting up to be ready at 6 unless I know for sure you are coming at 6. One of my families just doesn't have a clue, they figured I was up at 4:45 and waitied on the couch until someone came to play. UH NO! :confused: I told them that their drop off time was 7:45 and if they intended to come early they needed to ask 1 day in advance and see if it worked for me.

[WImom]

I'm contracted. My hours are 7:00-4:30 but I'm not actually open until that first contracted client's start time is.

I'm contracted, all of my families arrival times vary so I don't really have an open/close time. Regardless of that fact, I wake up at 6:30 every day, and am ready to go by 7:00. Even on weekends. I'm an odd duck, and I really feel like my day is wasted if I wake up after that time. (Also, I've found that on the weekends, my kids and DH don't wake up until about 9:30, so those 2.5 hours alone? Ahhhhh. There are no words!)

I'm the same way. DH thinks I'm wierd. If I'm up later than 7am on the weekends it throws me off.

[MyAngels]

I still get up at the same time because I KNOW that the day I stay an extra 10-15 minutes in bed is the day they will come early.

I'm like this, too. I'm up and ready for the day at 7:00 (my opening time).

[littlemissmuffet]

I have contracted hours and my first drop off is between 7:30-7:45. I get up at about 7am and have everything prepped and ready to go for 7:30!

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

If they pay for extended hours, they use them (because it's necessary).
So, I am up and ready for the 7:00AM child.

[Meyou]

I'm up at 6am and don't open until 7am. I'm ready to go once I'm officially open whether I have kids scheduled or not.

[pootmcgoot]

Up at 5. Kiddo is here at 530. It's miserable. Wish I had a 7 or 9 am drop off!

[spud912]

I work contracted hours. Right now, my first drop off is at 7:30 am. My alarm is set at 6:50 with a 10 minute snooze alarm for 7:00 am. That gives me enough time to shower, get dressed, put on makeup, brush my hair and teeth, open the blinds, and tend to my 3 year old if she is already awake.

On the weekends, the alarm clock is turned off, but my real "alarm clock," aka my 3 year old, wakes me up between 6:30 and 8 am. On very rare occasions, I may get to sleep in until 8:15. Usually those days are the days she woke up and got into something she should not have.

You can say I am definitely enjoying the late sleep-in as a real perk to working from home. When I worked outside of the home, I had to be up somewhere between 4 and 4:30 am .