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I'm in the process of looking at everyone's handbooks,and deciding what my policies will be. I think I have most things decided on, except for this :
#1 Say they can't arrive after 9:15am
OR
#2 Continue letting the arrival time vary (due to changing schedule each week), but have it in my handbook that the child needs to be able to stay on the same routine I have here ,regardless of when they arrive. And have one of the termination reasons be for "scheduling conflicts with the child not being able to stay on my routine." The only thing with this,is I would be risking losing 2 people, eventually. Because it's already proven to not work out when they drop off later in the day. And I really like those families a lot.
The biggest pet peeve of mine is when a parent doesn't have their child on the same schedule (but is OK with my schedule here) ,and arrives at different times, making it impossible to put the child down for the same nap times as the others. Because that child (infants/young toddler in my current situation) , may have slept in that morning,etc... My day isn't thrown off every day,just some times. But its still a bit irritating when it happens. My only FT client has a schedule that changes.
If I require her to drop off every day at 8/9 am (and she needs me some days as early as 6 already) I would be upping my hours big time,with her child. I don't think it's not fair to then charge her more $ per week. But on the flip side, DKB would be on a more consistent schedule here. I *am* thinking about raising my FT rate next year,so that should 'even out" ,right (pay-wise) ?
Same for the Drop in DKG who is not on any routine at home, and has a hard time sleeping here,as a result,is disruptive to my group.
Thank you so much in advance.
#1 Say they can't arrive after 9:15am
OR
#2 Continue letting the arrival time vary (due to changing schedule each week), but have it in my handbook that the child needs to be able to stay on the same routine I have here ,regardless of when they arrive. And have one of the termination reasons be for "scheduling conflicts with the child not being able to stay on my routine." The only thing with this,is I would be risking losing 2 people, eventually. Because it's already proven to not work out when they drop off later in the day. And I really like those families a lot.
The biggest pet peeve of mine is when a parent doesn't have their child on the same schedule (but is OK with my schedule here) ,and arrives at different times, making it impossible to put the child down for the same nap times as the others. Because that child (infants/young toddler in my current situation) , may have slept in that morning,etc... My day isn't thrown off every day,just some times. But its still a bit irritating when it happens. My only FT client has a schedule that changes.
If I require her to drop off every day at 8/9 am (and she needs me some days as early as 6 already) I would be upping my hours big time,with her child. I don't think it's not fair to then charge her more $ per week. But on the flip side, DKB would be on a more consistent schedule here. I *am* thinking about raising my FT rate next year,so that should 'even out" ,right (pay-wise) ?
Same for the Drop in DKG who is not on any routine at home, and has a hard time sleeping here,as a result,is disruptive to my group.
Thank you so much in advance.
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