What Are Your Hours Of Operation?

[apick]

I'm open 7:30-5:30 and it's amazing the amount of people who want me to take their kids at 6 am or keep kids until 6:30 pm. Sorry but no! My baby goes to bed at 7 and our family needs at least an hour together. I have a late pickup fee of $5 for every 15 min. Luckily I haven't had to enforce it, yet. I like the idea of charging for early morning drop off. I wouldn't exactly consider myself a morning person so I think 7 am is as early as I would take, unless it was a one time thing do to a special circumstance. What do you think would be fair to charge for early drop off? Currently I charge $30 for a full day.

[julie]

I'm open 7:30-5 officially. I go to school at night and pretty much have to boogie there if someone picks up at 5 to get there on time. But my last family that needed those times left last month and everyone else is pretty much here 8:15-4:30. So I am really being patient to find another family that has THOSE hours because I much prefer those. So far everyone has asked outside of my hours to fill the spot, I've gotten a 7:00am-6:00pm, a 6:15am-4 and an 8:30-5:30. No goes for all of them.

[Play Care]

I am open 7:30-4:45.
The one issue I have is that at 7:45 I have to get my school agers to the bus stop (I do not walk them or stay with them per my contract I am only responsible for making sure they get to the stop in time to get the bus) but I have one Dad that always shows up at that time. I have made it clear that my priority at that time is making sure the school kids get to the stop, and it's not the time to discuss important matters. If he just dropped and left it would be fine. The thing that kills me is he isn't working a FT job and doesn't have to bring her at that time, he could bring her for 7:30 or even for 8:00My hours are my hours, I don't do before/after even for a fee. My time is more important than money at this point.

[snbauser]

Right now I am open 7-5:30. My first child doesn't usually arrive until about 7:30 and my last one is gone usually around 5:15. I am excited because I am changing my hours starting in the summer and then again for next school year. My current families are school teachers and I am going to target my other spots to school employees. I plan on being open from 6:30-5:00 during the school year. Our elementary schools start very early here and teachers typically have to be there at 7am. I will be closed all days that the schools are closed with the exception of teacher workdays. I will also only be open from 7:30-4 Mon, Tues, and Wed during the summer. It will be a big hit on my income but after being in this business for 11 years I have decided to try and cut back my hours some and lessen the impact on my family. We will see if it works.

[canadiancare]

06h30-16h30

I offer breakfast before 07h30 and require drop off no later than 8. I have a dad who is routinely late and I just leave a note on the door to come find us on our walk.

[rmc20021]

My operational hours 'were' 6 am - 6 pm, but I did have one family contracted till 7:30 pm. None of my kids arrived before 7:30 am. So....after last Friday when EVERYONE showed up late for pickup, my 7:30 pm pickup has revised her working hours and will now be picking up at 5:30, which means my NEW hours are going to be 7:30 am - 5:30 pm.

I just shaved off 3 1/2 hours off my days and feeling much relief.

[ABCDaycareMN]

6am - 5:30pm are the hours I am willing to work. I contract for at most 10 hours days at my current price. if they need more than that I charge more. The family I have now is contracted from 9:15am - 5:15pm.

[Sunnyyy1]

My hours are 6:30 to 6:30 I have before and aftercare and each parent set there drop off and pick up time during there contract signing. So far so good.