Special Circumstance: Should I Drop A Rate?

[allsmiles]

i have someone like that..she is opting to pay the drop in rate for days and have a family member keep her child the other days.. i will allow it because i havent had even one call in a month, but i will let her know that if i do get a full time person then i would need to replace her because i have no more spots..
like a pp said, some money is better than no money..

[Cradle2crayons]

Website

Thank you so much for the reply..yes I do need to keep dcb1 at least for now as I have only gotten maybe 2-3 calls in the last 3 weeks. Need to get my website up and running hoping that it will help generate more calls.

Being a small rural area myself, I would definitely say that without my website, clients would not exist.... If you need help with a website, let me know.. I'm happy to help....

https://Www.cradle2crayonsdaycare.weebly.com

[Blackcat31]

Being a small rural area myself, I would definitely say that without my website, clients would not exist.... If you need help with a website, let me know.. I'm happy to help....

Www.cradle2crayonsdaycare.weeblycom

Your link just takes me to a qwest page? :confused:

[Blackcat31]

Never mind....I found the issue and fixed it.

Your link didn't say weebly.com

It just said weeblycom with no DOT separating the two

[Laurel]

I am a small certified daycare provider. I can only have 3 under age of 7 and 3 over 7. As of this week I have one dcf with 2 children. One is full time 0-2 yrs. dcb(1)and the other is after school dcb(2). I lost other dcf due to dcp getting let go from her job. Current family has been with me since the beginning (3yrs). I decreased my rate for the dcb2 abt a yr ago as dcp was active in military and overseas. Dcp has since returned. My afterschool rate is $50 a week for 0-15 hours of care per week, per agreement. The Dcp's are wanting to reduce hrs but wanting to save money as well for the dcb2. They figured since $50 breaks down to $10.00 a day that they could just pay that for the days that dcb2 comes to daycare. Last week dcp stated that dcb2 would be coming less and I agreed that it would be ok, but did not discuss rate as I assumed they would be paying regular rate. I have not had issues with this family not paying and so explained that reducing hours is fine that it still falls under the 0-15 hours in the agreed $50.00. Dcp texted and told me that if they could not pay the $10.00 per day then they would pull dcb2 completely.

Help! Unsure what to do. Especially in this economy when I do not have calls readily coming in for care.

I think I would work with them since you have their younger child full time.

Maybe you could try to do a little wheeling and dealing ::. You could suggest that you understand their situation but you don't want to cheat yourself either. Then state your deal. For example, "I could do it for $12 a day because I couldn't fill the other days your child doesn't use, does that sound fair?" Using the word 'fair' works a lot for me. People don't want to seem unfair. If that doesn't work maybe "Well then could you send some snacks for your child (or breakfast) or art supplies or whatever you provide for him to help with the decrease in fees?"

In the meantime if you get another school age child you could then re-negotiate. "Well now I have someone that wants 5 days but I can't let them start because I have days reserved for your child that aren't being used so you will need to now pay the $50 or lose the spot. I'm sure you can understand." Big smile!

Like someone else said, some money is better than none....at least until the situation changes.

Laurel