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My business hours say 6am-6pm but my first DC kid is scheduled for 7am. I do NOT open the door for anyone that needs me earlier than their scheduled time unless they request it. I don't mind getting up earlier occasionally for some clients, but only if they ASK me first in advance.
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I only have contracted times also.Comment
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Ditto...
My licensed hours are 7-5, but most of my kids start later. I am willing to be flexible-but with advance notice only.
If my earliest guy isn't going to be here, I've asked his parents to let me know as soon as they know. Sometimes that's the day before, sometimes it's not until that morning. They are pretty good about it.
Wierd thing is, most times, even when I may sleep in, like weekends, I can't. Part of getting older, apparently (47). Of course, I can't usually make it up until much past 10 pm either...
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I'm up at 5:30, and I open at 7am, but only one family comes regularly at 7. The rest come anywhere between 7am and 11:30am. I'm totally okay with that because I don't wait for anyone if we're headed out for the morning. I leave a note, and they get to track us down
. My families like the fact that I have "open" hours as opposed to contracted hours, simply because it suits their schedules better.
On the VERY rare occasion that my 7am dcb doesn't show on time (like Monday, when he arrived at 8:15), I consider it a freebie and sit down for breakfast with my own kids, drink my coffee in peace or whatever.Comment
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My hours are 7:00am-5:15pm. Im up at 530am everyday. My own kids 10 and 15 y/o have to be up for school and in the summer I have to get teenage son to football by 6:30am so routine stays the same. First child usually right around 7:00am. (I have one teacher who gets here at 645 on her days) but in the summer 7 is first drop off.
I love that little bit of time in the morning to sip coffee and get on the computer, and get a little makeup on.
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I am open from 5:30am-5:30pm...I get up at 5:30am but I am certainly not ready to go, it is just way too early for me when I don't get to bed until 11-11:30pm most nights. If you followed my other posting, my daycare family drops off whenever they feel like it, sometimes 5:45 and sometimes 7pm...so I am sitting around waiting and can't go jump in the shower as I don't know when they will show up. Makes it VERY difficult.
Since I only have the one family most of the week, (I have another daycare child1-2 days/week), I usually shower when I put the 3 year old for a nap. But I don't like this at all, I like to be groomed at the beginning of the day, but don't want to wake up at 4:30-5am just to shower, I get way too tired to wake up that early.Comment
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I tried to work with open and close times while keeping families committed to their contracted hours and it's just a head ache! I now tell families that I do not have a solid open and close time and that I base the time I start and close each day on the times that families need me for that day. I would not open until 8:15am if I didn't have anyone booked prior to that time. Door would remain locked even if someone was knocking on it.Comment
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My hours are 7:30am-5:30 pm so I am ready by 7:30. Well ealier than that but that is when my lights go on , the blinds go open and I am ready for business. The kids arrive later than that but I guarantee you the one day i choose to sleep in I would have somone here at 7:30....that is how my luck goes.Comment
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I don't publish "set" hours - I do contracted care - so everyone's hours are different. My 1st arrives at 7am, so I am up, showered and dressed by 7am. Occasionally they will show up late, but for the most part they are punctual. If I know they aren't coming (they know they are my earliest arrival so will call me the night before if at all possible) then I get up and ready by my next scheduled arrival (which right now is 7:45am).
With my own kids in school I pretty much have to be up by wish anyway, but summer is a different story.
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